Liberals in NSW have voted to expel former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull from the party

Furious Liberal Party members - including possible new recruit Warren Mundine - are pushing to expel Malcolm Turnbull from the party after he followed an Instagram account dedicated to voting Tony Abbott out of office.

MALCOLM Turnbull is facing a push to be kicked out of the Liberal Party after some New South Wales members passed a motion for his expulsion.

The Australian reports the Roseville branch of the Liberal Party moved a motion last night to expel the former prime minister, which passed 16 votes to two.

Sources from the branch told The Australian members were angry that Mr Turnbull failed to support the Liberal Party in the Wentworth by-election.

They also cited Mr Turnbull ousting Tony Abbott, former Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson and former Wentworth MP Peter King during his political career as a reason to boot the former prime minister from the party.

High profile Aboriginal leader and businessman Warren Mundine, a Roseville resident (and former Labor Party president) who is considering running for for the Liberal Party at the next election, took to Twitter today to welcome the motion and to take a swipe at “Malcolm Termite”.

“I wish Malcolm Termite would crawl back into his little hole he come from,” Mr Mundine said.

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Mr Turnbull, despite stepping down from his seat, is still a member of the Liberal Party.

Mr Turnbull, his wife and son followed an Instagram page advocating the dismissal of Tony Abbott from Warringah. Picture: AAP/Mick Tsikas

“He lost the Republican Constitutional amendment, he backstabbed King, Nelson & Abbott, gave the government a by-election it didn’t need [and is] now out to force the coalition to lose the next election.”

Mr Mundine is a former national president of the Australian Labor Party but quit the party in 2012. He told Fairfax Media today he was considering running for the Liberal Party in the marginal seat of Gilmore at the next election.

The motion will now go before the party’s Federal Electorate Conference, which includes all branches within the seat of Bradfield.

If successful there, it would then go before the party’s state council.

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It comes after Mr Turnbull threw his support behind a campaign to dethrone Mr Abbott from his Warringah seat.

The Vote Tony Out Instagram page is followed by Mr Turnbull and both his wife Lucy and son Alex.

He was also absent during the by-election in his former seat of Wentworth which Liberal Party candidate David Sharma lost in a tight race with Independent candidate Kerryn Phelps, forcing the government to lose its majority.

Mr Turnbull has been outspoken against the conservative MPs who plotted his downfall and referred to both Mr Abbott and Kevin Rudd as “miserable ghosts” in New York after his ousting.

The Vote Tony Out Instagram page, followed by Mr Turnbull’s official account, which links to a website selling anti-Abbott t-shirts. Picture: Instagram/votetonyout

Mr Turnbull currently remains a member of the Liberal Party despite having quit politics in August after he was rolled as Prime Minister in a leadership spill.

He was the Liberal Party’s biggest political donor ahead of the 2016 election, personally contributing $1.75 million of his own money to the campaign.

The Roseville branch of the Liberal Party raised eyebrows when it invited Liberal defector Cory Bernardi to speak at an event after he split from the party in 2017.

It has also previously hosted other conservative MPs for speaking functions, including Mr Abbott, Jim Molan and Andrew Hastie. In October, it hosted an event titled ‘Is the Federal Coalition Government Worth Saving?’.

Jonathan O’Dea, the state MP for Davidson where Roseville is located, told News Corp that he didn’t support the push to oust Mr Turnbull.

“I don’t support that action - for expelling (Mr Turnbull) or for suggesting that either former leader should be treated in such a disrespectful way,” he said.