Sussan Ley has passed the first big test of her leadership.

Tougher ones are ahead.

Most will be about policy.

But Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s defiance this week signals that the Liberal Party’s right wing will also make it personal.

There are some on the conservative side of the party’s aisle who still have not accepted Ley’s election as a moderate leader.

A few never will.

Tearing away at her authority so soon after the most disastrous election defeat since Menzies formed the party will only ensure its support in urban seats sinks even further.

But that doesn’t seem to matter.

Nor does it appear to trouble the arch conservatives that the party’s shift to the right under Peter Dutton on cultural, climate and migration issues was a major contributor to near wipe-out in metropolitan

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