Overview
- On her first full day in the role, Sloane was heckled in Parramatta Square by people telling her to go back to Vaucluse, as she pledged to be a leader for all postcodes.
- The first‑term MP was elected unopposed on Friday after Mark Speakman stood down, forming the NSW Liberals’ first all‑woman leadership team with deputy Natalie Ward.
- She outlined a pro‑housing agenda that includes support for reopening Woollahra station, backing new metro lines, and reviving the Camellia–Rosehill rezoning for up to 10,000 homes.
- Positioning herself as country‑raised, public‑school educated and a working mother, Sloane said her three sons are her purpose and vowed frequent visits to western Sydney.
- Labor is highlighting her affluent Vaucluse base to question her appeal in the west, while Liberal advocates credit years of deliberate recruitment efforts, including a 2022 Perrottet intervention, for elevating more women into leadership.