After Dan Tehan was excluded, the Free Leadership Competition was a contest between Deputy Leader Sussan Ley and Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor.

Ley announced Friday that she will run for leadership of the party and will rule in a vote on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price defended her decision to defect from the National to the Liberal Party room, saying she had consulted with colleagues before the relocation.

Nationals criticized the defectors, whose party leader David Littleproud said he was "disappointed". Senator Matt Canavan said Price's decision "decided to be ambitious about the will of voters, which is why people are tired of politicians."

Price told 2GB radio on Friday that she had predicted her colleagues, including Canavan.

"I wanted to do it in a respectful way," she said. "So I did talk to my colleagues. I even talked to Sussan Ley. So there were a lot of conversations I talked to when it was announced."

As a rural Liberal senator from the Northern Territory, Price was allowed to sit with the Liberal Party or the National.

She suggested that she had always wanted to sit in the Liberal room but "expected" to sit with the nationals.

"To be honest, this is what I want to do since I was elected for the first time," she told 2GB.

“(But I) chose the hall I needed to sit in the KMT, which was expected… and from there to serve the people in the Northern Territory.”

It is speculated that Price may join Taylor's vote for a liberal leader, although CLP senators remained soaring on Friday. "This is an important step I have taken at this time," she said.

Price told reporters on Saturday that “the alliance will make Australia great again” that Price faced some responsibility for the catastrophic losses to the Liberal Party on Saturday.

Images of the Senator wearing a magazine hat appeared at the Christmas party, and she brushed it off as a "joking."

On Thursday, moderate liberals laughed at her decision to defect. They said there was a risk with a leadership vote with Taylor and Price "to take us further away from the center."

Price has been criticized by some Indigenous leaders before for her role in helping defeat the voice of the parliamentary referendum.

During her defection, Marcus Stewart, a senior Aboriginal leader, said: "If Jacinta Price is the answer, then obviously liberals don't understand the question."

On Friday, the Liberal Leadership Battle officially competed with Rye and Taylor.

Taylor told Australian Financial Comment on Thursday that he will run for leadership and herald Price's move as a "extraordinary addition" to the party.

On Friday, Ley told Sunrise that liberals disappointed Australian women.

"I am determined and firmly convinced that I am currently the right person to lead the party forward and I think my appointment will send a strong signal to Australian women, but that's much more than that," Ley said.

"It's about policy offerings. It's about what modern Australia expects from us liberals."

Dehan, considered a possible contender, ruled out the game on Friday. Former coalition government minister and shadow immigration minister said the party needs to “look honestly at the 2025 election, our history and future”.

"I like the Liberal Party and I want to help us reconnect with the Australian people, but after careful consideration and dialogue with colleagues, I decided not to represent leadership."

“I will work hard and serve in any capacity I am asked to rebuild our party.”