The leadership of the Liberal Party ( strange name to Americans I know since the Liberal Party is the more conservative party in Australia ), as always been precarious.
Turnbull contested the leadership of the party in 2009 and lost by just one vote.
The worrying thing about Turnbull is despite being Catholic, he is odds with the church’s teaching on abortion, stem cell research and same-sex marriage ( add this to the fact that he is a supporter of the Carbon Credit reduction scheme ).
NOT A VERY GOOD TURN OF EVENTS IMHO.
Not really. The Australians are using the terms correctly. Liberal is Latin for freedom as in Liberty.
In the USA the terms conservative and liberal were coined over ideas of govt spending. The left wanted to spend "liberally" and the right wanted to spend or expand govt in a "conservative" manner. That is how the terms came to be coined in the USA.
I thought it is the National Party that is the more conservative political party in Australia (our right). Liberal PArty more in the center and Australian Democrats/Greens to the left...
Electoral unpopularity, basically - largely caused by a feral and dishonest media. It’s panicked enough Liberal MPs that they might lose the next election under Abbott, and so they’ve shifted to Turnbull.
100% correct
It seems that every politician that’s Catholic, isn’t.