Politics

Federal

Sussan Ley

Opinion

Parnell Palme McGuinness Columnist and communications adviser November 2, 2025 — 5.00am

Now would be a good time for Sussan Ley to admit that she’s wrong. After a churlish comment about our US ambassador in a moment of national good fortune, followed by a week of increasingly unhinged faux outrage over the prime minister’s tatty old Joy Division T-shirt , practising the art of admitting to mistakes is crucial to her political survival.

It wouldn’t be the first time a politician made the wrong call. Sometimes they get terrible advice on political point-scoring from an immature partisan hack in their office. Sometimes they’re egged on by shock jocks and lose sight of what normal people think. And sometimes opponents whip up an issue to make

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