The recent leadership changes within the Liberal party here are an echo of the fracturing of conservative parties happening around the world, according to the former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard.

Ms Gillard was also part of two leadership changes within the Labor party, becoming a surprise prime minister in the ousting of Kevin Rudd in 2010, and subsequently losing the job to him in 2013.

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