Profile of the Liberal Party & it's Leader Tony Abbott

The Liberal Party of Australia was founded a year after the 1943 federal election.Its founder was Sir Robert Menzies who was to become Australia's longest serving Prime Minister. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has long been a key political figure in the federal arena and if the polls are right he's about to become Australia's next Prime Minister, and, as things stand Mr Abbott looks likely to benefit from a bizarre period of Australian politics with the script-lines of a soap opera and the intrigue and brutality of a murder mystery. But as the alternative Prime Minister of Australia, just who is Tony Abbott and what would he bring to the nation's top job?Kulasegaram Sanchayan reports in Tamil.

Liberal Party's current leader Mr Tony Abbott (left) and founder Sir Robert Menzies (right)