He became Prime Minister by successfully challenging a genuine conservative, Tony Abbott who had lead the coalition to victory in 2013, largely because Turnbull managed to convince people within his party that he would be electorally more popular than Abbott - the left wing media in particular had run aggressive campaigns to convince people Tony Abbott was some sort of extremist. As it has turned out, Turnbull has not had any real success in improving the governments poll situation - he actually lost the coalition's 35 seat majority at the 2016 election and only held on to government by 1 seat.
Our next election is due sometime in the next year or so (the exact date is flexible - but it will almost certainly be by May 18 2019 and must be by November 2 2019) and on current polling, it does not look good for the future of a conservative government under Turnbull - and as Turnbull himself could just as easily be in the Labor Party, there really is no reason for his party to keep him there, if he can't even deliver an election victory.
Peter Dutton looks like his most likely challenger and replacement if a challenge is made - Dutton is a conservative and so from a conservative perspective is a better choice. I doubt he'll be electorally popular especially given the biases of so much of the media - but he may well have a strength that make him more popular, given the weakness of other political leaders (including both Turnbull, and the Leader of the Opposition, Bill Shorten, and even to some extent, Tony Abbott.
At the very least, conservative opposition within his own party has forced Turnbull to back away from his emissions reduction policy.
You guys need a screw-the-media leader like Trump. There’s virtually no nation on earth that doesn’t have a hostile Marxist media as a dominant force, and that needs to be destroyed completely and totally.
Turnbull is toast, it’s just a matter of when. He’s blown past the number of lost opinion polls he used to justify knifing Abbott and to many genuine conservatives, he’s just Bill Shorten in a more expensive suit.
The leftward drift of the Coalition is alienating many conservatives who, in the absence of a well known conservative alternative (other than maybe Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives which are neither well known or that big), are parking their votes with One Nation.
Short of a ‘Resurrection-of-Christ’ level miracle, Labor will win the next election. The period in Opposition will be the crunch period where the future direction of the Libs is determined. They can keep drifting left (in essence becoming the new Labor right wing) or they can return to the right. They can’t remain where they are because it’s a complete mess that neither side can stand no longer.
As for me, living in the People’s Republic of Canberra (for my American cousins, think of combining Washington DC and San Francisco and turning the lefty dial to 11), I am living the future of another Labor/Green government.
Joy. :(
When I was watching it, it seemed significantly left by American standards, but I have not watched much American TV for many years. I could be wrong.
Isn't there some attempt to make ABC more neutral toward politics?