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How Sussan Ley saw an unguarded America | 7.30

After losing the leadership of the Liberal Party, Sussan Ley left Australia and travelled solo across the United States on a Greyhound bus.

Her fellow passengers included “returning prisoners”, nuns and veterans. She tells 7.30’s Sarah Ferguson the journey taught her a lot about the “human condition”.
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