The Liberals are the political version of the car crash you cannot take your eyes off. It is this perverse fascination with a party imploding before our eyes that explains the lopsided focus on the Liberals. In the past week, the intrigue has been even more acute, with party leaders achieving what most in opposition cannot. Undivided attention.

Federal Liberal leader Sussan Ley is facing the ultimate political train wreck, leading a party that is tearing itself apart. As hard as it is to watch, she is slowly losing her grip on the job and the worse it gets, the more we stayed tuned.

NSW Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane, new in the job, on her street walk on Tuesday in Eastwood, in NSW’s most marginal (Liberal-held) seat of Ryde.Credit: Peter Rae

In Victoria, Jess Wilson has just risen to the top of her state party, which has been the laughing stock of the Liberals for years. Unlike Ley, however, Wilson has a shot at turning her party’s fortunes around. That makes for more comfortable viewing.

And now in NSW there is Kellie Sloane, who was waiting in the wings as her colleagues clumsily deposed her predecessor, Mark Speakman. The new Liberal leader will have to perform miracles to hang on to 10 marginal seats, let alone beat a first-term government. But for now, her appeal is she is not Speakman.

Three women........

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