I put Peter Dutton as #1 purely because I'd never heard of him. Turnbull, Costello, Abbott, Bishop and Hockey are all falling stars from the Howard era. If the Liberals want to resurrect their party, they need a few new faces.

It turns out that Turnbull was a bad choice by the " party room" but what will they do next?? I am not sure that there can emerge a true consensus which will be acceptable to all

It has turned out that Turnbull was a bad choice, but what next? My first thought on looking at the six choices given in the survey was, "isn't there anyone else?" But it appears there isn't. None of them looked promising to me.

I would have loved to see Costello as PM, but that chance has gone. I feel like spin and swish have taken over and good strong belief systems have nothing to do with politics anymore.

It is time for the Coalition to come up with their policies if they are going to succeed at all. Negative attacks on the Government which by the way is performing well in every aspect is not going to take them anywhere. All their reps keep saying is that they gave over a 20 billion nest egg to this government but everyone knows how they did this and also by making it very difficult for the poor worker so now it is their turn to fight for government in a positive way and I do not see them doing this for some time.

I would gone for Costello, but the others no.

It is hard to believe that the libs have sunk to such lows. The most grossly ineffective opposition I have ever seen. Maybe they are paying the price for allowing Howard to have such power. Most are (as a previous poster said) tainted with the former government.
Turnbull's animosity towards Rudd has been very clear from day one. His determination to discredit anything that labor has done regardless, has shown him to be completely incompetent. This animosity towards Rudd has backfired with the public.
I am a Labor voter, but would like to see an effective opposition.

Any Government needs a responsible and strong Opposition, who just does not oppose for the sake of opposition, but has a coherent view on issues and a distinct set of p[olicies. At present the Coalition has lost its way. Partly because Howard years drained them of any flow of ideas other than been drys

The Liberals are in a tight spot. The ALP - in many ways more Liberal than the Liberal Party has taken the slightly right of centre on the political spectrum. The Liberal party under Howard developed a strong hard right flavour. However, in Australian politics extremes of left or right are not embraced by a large section of voters. It is hard to see where the Liberal party can go to crawl back votes from the ALP. In some respects it is the Greens who have become the real opposition or alternative view to the Rudd government in the absence of any real clear alternative policies from within the divided Liberal party.

Where is Guy Fox when we need him?
For Chris who is 'presumably' A-religious. If you have nothing to base your opinion on, whether moral or spiritual, then your opinion is purely subjective and that sort of opinion is flawed. As has been said "when a man stops believing in GOD, he doesn't believe nothing, he believes anything and everything."
Our politicians are bad enough even with the veneer of religion that you seem to object to the intrusion thereof.

I do not favour Turnbull, Hockey nor Abbott. None of them have a classical Liberal bone in their bodies. They are all professional politicians who will do anything for a vote. Out of those on the horizon I favour Julie Bishop. but she too lacks any knowledge or expertise in the Classical Liberal tradition.The Liberal party needs to be rebuilt in true Classical Liberal traditions, a philosophy that is sadly missed in this Nation.

There is no solution for a leader for the Liberals. Turnbull is a spent force, like a dead man walking, he has no control of his party. Hockey is lazy, a follower and not a leader, he is no solution at all. Abbott is not even in contention, he has too many times shown his true colours, he would be forever in the single digit category like Nelson was.Dutton is a goose with no guts, read Dickson bail out. Bishop does not handle matters very well, this is evident of how she sometimes get simple issues quite wrong.

And I had such high hopes that with Malcolm Turnbull either as PM or good ppositon Leader that the Republic debate would get a guernsey.

Turnbull could never make a good leader because all he craves is power. He has never elucidated any sort of vision for Australia nor does he seem to have any particular politically ideological conviction. Who knows what he believes in. I'm sure he would've been just as happy as leader of the Labor Party.