Thanks for explaining that so succinctly. I never really understood some of the terminology. Good luck to conservatism in Australia. I think what’s happening in America now could have some reverberations for Turnbull and his faction that he couldn’t have expected.
There probably won’t be, at least not directly. The Australian political establishment is immigrationist, abortionist, gun-grabbing, one-sided “free” trade deal making, high spending and high taxing, nd they have a stranglehold on power and on the media. They differ on what they want to spend the money on and on how the biased media treats it.
There’s an extremely strong whip system that essentially precludes intra-party dissent. There’s virtually no point petitioning your member of parliament in Australia because no matter what their constituents want, they always (100% of the time) vote on party lines. (Labor party MPs actually sign a pledge to that effect; the others do it as a matter of course) Politicians who dare to deviate from party-line votes are so rare as to be individually noteworthy, and risk potentially being ejected from their party or having it install someone else to run for their seat at the next election.
Anti-Australian political philosophy is so widespread that there is probably nobody with any substantial stature who thinks differently, and there is certainly nobody with the stature of Trump who would be able to overcome Australia’s one-sided media, no room for a Trump in any political party, no grassroots political infrastructure, and it’s fundamentally impossible for such a person to run as an independent/third party and lead the country, or even be a possible election spoiler.