We took to the street to ask a few residents what they thought about the spill and Malcolm Turnbull. 

► Ralph Masonwells (Dubbo) 

► Simon Youd (Townsville) 

► Ivor John Trapman (Dubbo) 

Malcolm Turnbull will become Australia's 29th prime minister after beating Tony Abbott in a dramatic leadership ballot in Canberra on Monday night.

Mr Turnbull's victory is reminiscent of the coup former prime minister Julia Gillard staged against Kevin Rudd in 2010 and makes the former communications minister Australia's fifth prime minister in just over five years.

Liberal MPs gathered at Parliament House at 9.15pm to decide whether Mr Abbott or Mr Turnbull would lead them to the next election.

The challenge has plunged the Coalition government into crisis.

► Sam Baker (Dubbo) 

► Ralph Masonwells (Dubbo) 

Radio broadcaster Alan Jones believes Australia is caught in the middle of a "shit sandwich" following Malcolm Turnbull's dramatic toppling of Prime Minister Tony Abbott in Canberra on Monday night.

Scores of furious talk-back callers flooded Jones' conservative breakfast radio show on Tuesday morning to express their disgust at everything from Mr Turnbull and the "snakes of the Liberal Party" to the "traitorous" behaviour of deputy leader Julie Bishop.

During one of many spirited defences of the ousted prime minister, Jones read out a message he had received from a caller.

"As a caller just wrote to me, and forgive the language, but I mean we all talk the language of the playground, and he said: 'People don't want to vote for Turnbull, and they don't want to vote for [Labor leader Bill] Shorten. We've got a shit sandwich.' And I think that's most probably it."

► Patricia Myers (Dubbo) 

► Tom Spring (Mudgee)