This brought him back to the problems facing the Liberal Party, which was in a terrible state, terrible. Its success at a federal level was no more than a temporary mask for massive difficulty in raising funds and retaining membership. Indeed, if someone was not done soon, Turnbull predicted, the Liberal Party would very soon be supplanted by some new centre-right Party. It wouldn’t be hard at all, thanks to the Internet - he took a moment or two to praise the marvel that is the Internet - a couple of wealthy financiers, a few emails, an online recruitment campaign and voila, a new conservative force in Australian politics and no more Liberal Party