page_title: Sussan Ley
section_title: Opposition (2007–2013)
hierarchical_section_title: Sussan Ley / Career / Opposition (2007–2013)
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Sussan Ley speaking at the opening of the en:Jerilderie, New South Wales Library
context_page_description: Sussan Penelope Ley is an Australian Liberal Party politician serving as Minister of the Environment since 2019, and has served as Member of Parliament for Farrer since 2001.
  Ley served as Assistant Minister for Education in the Abbott Government from 18 September 2013 until 23 December 2014, when she entered the Cabinet and was appointed Minister for Health and Minister for Sport. She retained the portfolios in the Turnbull Government, and on 30 September Aged Care was added to her position. In January 2017, she resigned from the frontbench in the midst of an investigation into her travel expenses and entitlements.
context_section_description: Following the 2007 election, Ley was appointed Shadow Minister for Housing and Shadow Minister for Status of Women by Opposition Leader, Dr Brendan Nelson, moving to Shadow Minister for Customs and Justice when Malcolm Turnbull became Opposition Leader in September 2008.
  When Tony Abbott became Opposition Leader in December 2009 she was given the portfolio of Shadow Assistant Treasurer and was moved to Shadow Minister for Employment Participation and Shadow Minister for Childcare and Early Childhood Learning after the 2010 election.
caption: Ley in 2009 at the opening of a library in Jerilderie, New South Wales
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