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Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is an Australian former politician, businessman and barrister who served as the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party from 2008 to 2009 and again from 2015 to 2018, and was the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Wentworth from 2004 to 2018.
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Born 24 October 1954 · Q927550
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Awarded Companion of the Order of Australia (2021).
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“[Morrison] has made a proposal, as I think is widely known, as part of trying to seek agreement with the crossbench senators and all that we have reassured the Nationals is that Scott’s efforts in that regard will continue.”
The Guardian: Malcolm Turnbull says faith in Aukus nuclear submarines deal is 'stark staring bonkers' – video
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Published video “Sovereignty & Security Forum 2026 hosted by Malcolm Turnbull AC and Professor David Kilcullen (UNSW)”.
Published video “Sovereignty and Security forum Canberra 2025 panel 4 and closing remarks”.
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Published video “Sovereignty and Security forum Canberra 2025 panel 3”.
Published video “Sovereignty and Security forum Canberra 2025 opening remarks and panel 1”.
His company sold two pumped hydro projects (Glenbawn Dam and Glennies Creek Dam) to AGL
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Turnbull gave a speech at the Centre for Asia Pacific Resilience and Innovation, at the organisation's annual forum in Taipei, Taiwan
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Awarded Companion of the Order of Australia (2021).
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Claimed: “"70 per cent of Australia's trade [is] now with countries committed to net zero."” — rated Fair call by ABC News.
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Claimed: “" ... renewables + storage are cheaper than new coal let alone the loopy current fad of nuclear power ..."” — rated Fair call by ABC News.
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FACTLY rated the claim “Malcolm Turnbull has said that if Narendra Modi wins 2019 elections, India will become a developed nation by 2024.” FALSE.
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Published video “Rural Communities During the Drought”.
Published video “Stories from the drought - John from Collarenebri”.
Published video “Getting Your Electricity Prices DOWN”.
Published video “Michael's Story - in his own words”.
Published video “A Fiver for a Farmer”.
Claimed: “"We are spending record amounts on hospitals, we are spending record amounts on health."” — rated Fair call by ABC News.
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Which disqualified several parliamentarians who held dual citizenship in accordance with subsection 44(i) of the Australian Constitution
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“s powers to place export restrictions on the nation”
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“In 1944 Menzies went to great pains not to call his new political party, consolidating the centre right of Australian politics,”
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Election lost: 2016 federal election.
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Turnbull led the Coalition to a narrow victory in a double dissolution election
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Turnbull and Lucy have two adult children, Alex and Daisy, and as of July 2016, three grandchildren.
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Campaign: 2016 federal election.
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It was revealed that Turnbull had held talks with Labor state politician John Della Bosca during the 1990s on a possible party switch, and that he had harboured aspirations in his youth to head the Australian Workers' Un
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“if, for whatever reason, the leadership of a political party is vacant then anyone, any member of the party can stand, whether they be a minister or a backbencher, without any disloyalty to the person whose leadership has been declared vacant.”
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Turnbull said that his middle name "Bligh" has been a family tradition for generations, originally given in honour of Governor William Bligh
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Australia (2015–2018).
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Turnbull announced that the Vertigan Report, a cost–benefit analysis of providing fast broadband to regional and rural Australia through wireless and satellite services, revealed that continuing the plan would cost nearl
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Career landmark: Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts (2013–2015).
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And although he slipped from 182 to 197, his estimated net worth increased to A$186 million, and he continued to be the only sitting politician to make the list
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Turnbull became the first Liberal leader to have admitted to smoking cannabis
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In 2008, Turnbull became the first Liberal leader to have admitted to smoking cannabis.
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Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition of Australia (2008–2009).
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Career landmark: Minister for the Environment (2007–2007).
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The combined net worth of Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull was estimated at A$133 million, making him Australia's richest parliamentarian until the election of billionaire Clive Palmer in the 2013 election
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Career landmark: member of the Australian House of Representatives (2004–2018).
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Turnbull announced that he would challenge King for the seat and successfully defeated him to become the Liberal candidate
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Won Centenary Medal (2001).
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Having already left the board of Ausflag in 1994; he joined the Australian National Flag Association in 2004
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Turnbull intended to seek Liberal preselection for Wentworth but did not eventually contest after concluding that preselection hopeful Peter King had the numbers in the branches
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And was a member of the party's federal and New South Wales executives from 2002 to 2003
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For $57 million to then-telecommunications giant MCI Worldcom
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Career landmark: Delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention, 1998 (1998–1998).
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To become a managing director of Goldman Sachs Australia, eventually becoming a partner in Goldman Sachs and Co
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Turnbull was appointed by Prime Minister Paul Keating as Chair of the Republic Advisory Committee, charged with exploring ways of moving Australia to a republican form of government by replacing the Queen of Australia wi
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Turnbull established an investment banking firm, Whitlam Turnbull & Co Ltd, in partnership with Neville Wran, the former Labor Premier of New South Wales, and Nicholas Whitlam, the former Chief Executive of the State Ban
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In memory of his late father, he set up the Bruce Turnbull means-tested scholarship at Sydney Grammar, offering full remission of fees to a student unable to afford them
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Following his retirement from politics, former prime minister William McMahon nominated Turnbull as his preferred successor in Lowe; the Liberals chose another candidate, and lost the by-election to Labor
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Turnbull stood for Liberal Party preselection in the Division of Wentworth prior to the 1981 Wentworth by-election
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The couple were married on 22 March 1980 at Cumnor, Oxfordshire, by a Church of England priest while Turnbull was attending the University of Oxford.
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Studied at Brasenose College, Bachelor of Civil Law (1978–1980).
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Awarded Rhodes Scholarship (1978).
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Turnbull won a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Brasenose College, Oxford, where he briefly studied for a business degree before switching to a postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law from 1978 to 1980, graduating with honours
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“s newspaper, Honi Soit, writing largely about politics. Turnbull also visited former Premier of New South Wales Jack Lang, discussing 1920s and 1930s state politics. During his studies, he was involved in student politics, serving as board director of the University of Sydney Union and a member of the Students”
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Turnbull attended the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1977 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1978
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However, contrary to certain sources, Turnbull was not the dux of his graduating year at Sydney Grammar
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Born 1954-10-24.
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Menzies went to great pains not to call his new political party, consolidating the centre right of Australian politics, "conservative" – but rather the Liberal Party, which he firmly anchored in the centre of Australian
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