'It's a tragedy,' Clive Hamilton says of Turnbull's climate transformation

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4. No, here they're the conservtive party.

When founded by Robert Menzies back in 1945, they were a very different party - definitely not socialists, but with a true liberal agenda. It was John Howard who forced them more to the Right by getting rid of what he called "wets" in the Party.

And it was Tony Abbott who pursued a very hard-line agenda, to the point of complete nuttiness.

And that's where they remain today, firmly in the grip of right-wing idealogues, not far removed from the Tea Party.