The New SouthWales electorate of Farrer will go to the polls on 9 May after Ley, who held the seat for 25 years, quit parliament last month after being deposed as opposition leader by Angus Taylor.
The upcoming Farrer by-election is already being talked about as a litmus test for the new opposition leader and an ascendant One Nation. It'll also be a measure of major party politics ... .
But across the electorate of Farrer, in south-western NSW, they’re about to return to roost ... That byelection, in Ley’s seat of Farrer, will pit Milthorpe against a Liberal candidate in the first test of Angus Taylor’s leadership.
Just minutes after deposed Liberal leader Sussan Ley announced her resignation, constituents in her electorate of Farrer began murmuring about change ... .