Chosen on Tuesday as the first woman to lead the federal parliamentary Liberal Party, Sussan Ley is assured of a place in history as breaker of the party's "glass ceiling".
But politics has its own traditions, so another phrase may fit better: the "glass casing".
When her portrait is hung on the party room wall, framed in glass, it will stand out at the end of a long line of distinguished Liberal men, stretching from Menzies to Dutton.
Inside Sussan Ley's historic rise to Liberal Party leaderBY Tom Crowley