Sussan Ley has obviously decided that the best defence is a good offence and has done as much media as possible this morning, including with the Seven Network, which also opened on whether she was ditching net zero to save her leadership:

The Liberal party room will meet sooner rather than later, certainly before parliament resumes after this week and we will come to a Liberal Party position, Nat. So I appreciate that you’ve repeated some speculation and some commentary, but I want to make it very clear that the Liberal Party will come to its own decision in our own party room, exactly as I said we would on day one of my leadership where I said I wouldn’t be making any captain’s calls, I would be listening to my colleagues, to every single member of my team. I’m proud of the contribution that every single one of them is making in the Liberal Party, where as people would expect, there are a range of views. That’s a good thing.

And on being dragged further to the right and into election obscurity by the Nationals Barnaby Joyce (who has been doing a very public victory lap openly saying that, just to rub it all in) Ley says:

As I said before, when I became Leader, the Nationals would make their own decisions, and they have. I don’t determine their timeline, they don’t determine ours. I had a conversation with David Littleproud on Sunday. It was a friendly conversation, as per usual, and we said we’d come together after our respective party rooms had worked through this and come to a Coalition position. What we believe Nat, is that the Liberal and National parties are stronger together as a Coalition, because we both equally want to fight this awful Labor government.