{"id":318569,"date":"2025-11-18T13:27:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=318569"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:27:34","slug":"victorian-liberals-oust-brad-battin-elect-jess-wilson-as-first-female-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=318569","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Liberals Oust Brad Battin, Elect Jess Wilson as First Female Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Victorian Liberal Party removed Opposition Leader Brad Battin in a 19-13 party room vote on Monday, replacing him with first-term MP Jess Wilson from Kew, who becomes the state&#8217;s first female Liberal leader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This marks the third leadership change in under a year, driven by frustrations over stagnant polling and internal divisions despite recent polls showing Battin ahead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jess Wilson was one of the few Liberal MPs who publicly supported the \u2018Voice to Parliament.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wilson, 35, pledges to address wasteful spending, crime, healthcare, and housing to challenge Labor before the 2026 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This marks the third leadership change in under a year, driven by frustrations over stagnant polling and internal divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":318570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[999,35],"tags":[18796,993,8,9126],"class_list":["post-318569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-jess-wilson","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria","tag-victorian-liberal-party"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318571,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318569\/revisions\/318571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/318570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}