It says he's "liberal" and liberal and conservative mean different things to different countries and even our country in different times. Is he just another gun-grabbing bossy, tyrannical "liberal" like those here, or what???
Current opinion polls say he'll be Prime Minister by sometime early next week (he doesn't take office until the Governor General swears him in, and that is normally a few days after the election).
And he's a staunch conservative - in Australia, the name 'Liberal Party' was chosen based on its classical definition invoking freedom and liberty, not the one it's evolved to have in more recent times. Like any politician, he's not perfect, but the conservative writing this thinks he's the closest we've had in my lifetime - John Howard, being pushed into a close second.