On the day Sussan Ley resigned, who would have thought the Liberals would quickly become an afterthought in her seat of Farrer?<\/p>\n
Recall the headlines the day after Ley announced she was quitting politics: \u201cSussan Ley\u2019s parting gift leaves Angus Taylor with messy early hurdle<\/a>\u201d. \u201cWhy the by-election for Ley\u2019s seat will be a test for Taylor<\/a>\u201d. \u201cAngus Taylor flags housing focus ahead of by-election \u2018challenge\u2019<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n These days, hardly anyone seems to think the Liberals will retain the seat they\u2019ve held for 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the day Sussan Ley resigned, who would have thought the Liberals would quickly become an afterthought in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[243233,43,673,44,84,7239,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-624241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-farrer","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-new-south-wales","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-state-politics","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}