We have 2 groups of friends in Australia, and they have both tried to explain the differences in parties, and have told us WRONGO info!! Is Turnbull a Republican or a Democrat??
Turnbull would probably be a Democrat in the US - he’s far enough left for that.
But he leads a party that is mostly more conservative than he is - he’s from the far left of the Liberal Party, which broadly speaking is a conservative party (it’s name was chosen before ‘Liberal’ became a term hijacked by the left - and relates to the classical liberal ideals of freedom of the past).
I believe the closest U.S. analogy of Turnbull would be a McCain RINO.
Now you are no better informed