Almost two years and two leaders on,one of the world's greatest conservativeparties finds itself adrift. Popular supportfor the Liberal-led coalition has merelymarginally improved since the election to48% from 47%, according to The Austra-lian's latest Newspoll. Current oppositionleader Malcolm Turnbull, a hard-chargingformer lawyer and investment banker,trails Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by awhopping 44 percentage points—this in acountry that usually splits fairly evenly be-tween the two major parties. Australia'sfamously left-leaning press is having a dai-ly field day harpooning the hapless Libs.What went so wrong?
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