- The 29th and current Prime Minister of Australia and the Leader of the Liberal Party
Real name: | Malcolm Bligh Turnbull |
Malcolm Turnbull Height
| How tall is Malcolm Turnbull? | 178 cm / 5 ft 11 in | Born: | 24 October 1954 Comment | How old is Malcolm Turnbull in 2024? / Age: | 69 years
| Where was Malcolm Turnbull born? | Sydney, Australia | Residence: | Sydney, NSW, Australia | Zodiac sign: | Scorpio |
Malcolm Turnbull Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| How much is Malcolm Turnbull worth? | $200,000,000
| Nationality: | Australian | Hair color: | Grey | Eyes color: | Blue |
Who is Malcolm Turnbull? / Facts
- He assumed both offices after defeating Tony Abbott in a leadership spill on 14 September 2015
- The incumbent Turnbull Government was re-elected but was reduced to a one-seat majority at the 2016 federal election
- Turnbull attended Sydney Grammar School before going to the University of Sydney, where he attained a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws
- Turnbull then attended Brasenose College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he attained a Bachelor of Civil Law
- For over two decades prior to entering politics, Turnbull worked in both personal and managerial positions as a journalist, a lawyer, a merchant banker, a venture capitalist, and Chairman of the Australian Republican Movement
- A self-made multi-millionaire, Turnbull purchased a stake of internet service provider Ozemail in 1994 for $500,000 and sold his stake just months before the dot com bubble burst in 1999 for $57 million, paving the way to his current estimated net worth of above $200 million with entries in the BRW Rich 200 list
- Though Turnbull had attempted Liberal preselection at a 1981 by-election and later at the 2001 federal election, he was first elected to the House of Representatives for the seat of Wentworth in New South Wales at the 2004 federal election
- Elevated to the Howard Cabinet in January 2007, he briefly served as Minister for the Environment and Water
- Following the defeat of the Liberal Government at the 2007 federal election, Turnbull declared himself a candidate in the subsequent leadership election, but lost to Brendan Nelson by three votes
- Following a period of poor opinion polling, Turnbull challenged and defeated Nelson by four votes and became Leader of the Opposition
- Turnbull was widely considered part of the progressive minority in the Liberal Party, with his views on issues such as climate change, republicanism and marriage equality differing from the conservative majority
- This led to persistent tensions within the Liberal Party, with Turnbull's support for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme proposed by the Rudd Government in late 2009 eventually causing a split
- Tony Abbott, who was opposed to the Scheme, subsequently challenged Turnbull and defeated him for the leadership by a single vote
- Initially intending to leave politics, Turnbull remained in Parliament and eventually became Minister for Communications in the Abbott Government following the defeat of the Labor Government at the 2013 federal election
- On 14 September 2015, citing consistently poor opinion polling for the Government, Turnbull resigned as Minister for Communications and challenged Abbott in a leadership ballot that he won by ten votes
- Turnbull was subsequently sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia the following day and formed the Turnbull Government
- Opinion polling prior to the 2016 federal election indicated a honeymoon period which lasted for several months until the beginning of April, when Turnbull entered net negative satisfaction rating territory and the Coalition's two-party polling lead had evaporated, right through to the knife-edge 2016 election
- In the following days of uncertainty, Turnbull negotiated with the crossbench and secured confidence and supply support from Bob Katter, Andrew Wilkie and Cathy McGowan in the event of a hung parliament and resulting minority government
- However, at the closest federal majority result since the 1961 election, the Liberal/National Coalition retained majority government by a single seat
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Education
- Brasenose College
- University of Sydney
- Sydney Grammar School
- Vaucluse Public School
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