Sussan Ley was an early standout performer during Question Time. Source: News Limited
SHE'S just doubled the female headcount in Cabinet, but most Australians wouldn't know her from a bar of soap. So just who is Sussan Ley?
As Assistant Minister for Education under Christopher Pyne, the junior minister was a surprise performer in the first few weeks of the Abbott Government.
The country member from the NSW seat of Farrer, who was elected back in 2001, soon became known for stealing the show with her fiery and assured delivery, both in Question Time and in media appearances such as the ABC's Q&A.
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"The best feeling in the world is not going from one staff member and Google to half a dozen and a department, but walking into the chamber for the first time and sitting down on the government benches," she told the Herald Sun in 2013.
"That has given me a tremendous lift."
Arguably her most high-profile stoush was the scrapping of Labor's $300 million Early Years Quality Fund, ostensibly set up to increase wages for low-paid childcare workers but which Ley slammed as a "slush fund" aimed at boosting union membership.
"We know that every member of the Labor Party in this place owes their existence to a union, but never before has $300 million of taxpayers' money been used in the pursuit of this disgraceful aim," she told Parliament in December 2013.
"This was never about early years, this was never about quality, this was never about educators, this was never about the children. This was only ever about the union."
An independent report by PwC bolstered the case for ditching the Early Years Quality Fund, which would have given pay rises of $3 an hour to some of the lowest paid workers, but crucially not all of them.
Even the ABC's Fact Check came down on Ley's side, finding her claim to be "in the ballpark".
"The $300 million was earmarked for low-paid workers and linked to raising the quality of care they provide to children," Fact Check wrote.
"However, there are reasonable criticisms of the amount allocated to the fund, the uneven way it was distributed and the adoption of a first-come-first-served policy. This process favoured the union."
Before being elected to office, Ley held a variety of colourful "real-life" jobs — from an air traffic controller, to a pilot, to a shearers' shed cook.
A Bachelor of Economics, Master of Taxation Law and Master of Accounting, Ley rose through the ranks of that Taxation Office prior to seeking preselection in 2001.
She migrated to Australia at the age of 13 after spending her early childhood living in the United Arab Emirates with her British parents.
She'll now have to turn her attention to the vexed issue of GP co-payments.
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