{"id":70843,"date":"2026-02-15T08:08:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/liberal-figure-charlotte-mortlock-quits-party-amid-feared-backlash-over-dumping-of-first-female-leader\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T08:08:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:38:01","slug":"liberal-figure-charlotte-mortlock-quits-party-amid-feared-backlash-over-dumping-of-first-female-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/liberal-figure-charlotte-mortlock-quits-party-amid-feared-backlash-over-dumping-of-first-female-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal figure Charlotte Mortlock quits party amid feared backlash over dumping of first female leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f179f1d2f02b89677748b5e4a868efe2e0e1c1cb\/547_0_4560_3648\/master\/4560.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=94dd82675a833f80149c8f4924fa1978\" alt=\"Liberal figure Charlotte Mortlock quits party amid feared backlash over dumping of first female leader\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Liberal figure Charlotte Mortlock quits party amid feared backlash over dumping of first female leader<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Some female Liberal members \u2018incredibly worried\u2019 after Sussan Ley\u2019s ousting, with one saying: \u2018The boys are back in charge\u2019Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLiberal women are \u201cincredibly worried\u201d by a potential voter backlash to the ousting of the party\u2019s first female leader, with the high-profile figure Charlotte Mortlock giving up her membership altogether.Just days after Sussan Ley lost the leadership, Mortlock announced on Sunday she was leaving the party and quitting Hilma\u2019s Network \u2013 a grassroots group she established to bring \u201cLiberal-minded women\u201d together. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/feb\/15\/liberal-figure-charlotte-mortlock-quits-party-amid-feared-backlash-over-dumping-of-first-female-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Liberal figure Charlotte Mortlock quits party amid feared backlash over dumping of first female leader Some female Liberal members \u2018incredibly worried\u2019 after Sussan Ley\u2019s ousting, with one saying: \u2018The boys are back in charge\u2019Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLiberal women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":70844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}