Malcolm Bligh Turnbull[1] (born 24 October 1954) is anAustralian politician. He was the leader of theLiberal Party andPrime Minister of Australia. He wasMinister for Communications in the government of Australia underPrime MinisterTony Abbott from 18 September 2013 until 14 September 2015. Turnbull is also the formerLeader of the Opposition in theAustralian Parliament, and former leader of theLiberal Party, succeedingBrendan Nelson on 16 September 2008.
He lost the leadership positions on 1 December 2009, by one vote toTony Abbott. Turnbull had agreed to allow the government's emissions trading scheme (ETS) to pass through the parliament. This was opposed by many people in the Liberal Party who argued that an ETS was unnecessary.[2] Other people in the party thought an ETS would harm Australia's coal exports. Others in the party did not like the way that Turnbull managed the arguments within his party.
Turnbull was elected in his full-term Prime Minister position in the2016 federal election. He resigned in August 2018 following a leadership challenge in the Liberal Party whereScott Morrison was elected as the party's leader and eventual Prime Minister.
- ↑"Passage to wild colonial days: TheHawkesbury has rich links to our nation's pioneers" (Escape, p34), John Rozentals in theSunday Telegraph,2009-08-16, noting 'Bligh' comes from great-great-great-grandfather John Turnbull who has "so incensed by the treatment ofgovernorWilliam Bligh during theRum Rebellion that he named one of his sons William Bligh Turnbull in his honour. It's a tradition that has continued right down to..." Malcolm Bligh Turnbull.
- ↑Davis, Mark (November 30, 2009). "Turnbull swings at Lib "wreckers"". The Age. p. 4.
