ENG: Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2004, and was Leader of the Opposition and parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party from 16 September 2008 to 1 December 2009.
Turnbull has represented the Division of Wentworth in Sydney\'s eastern suburbs since his election in October 2004. He served as the federal Minister for Environment and Water Resources in 2007. Before entering parliamentary politics he practised as a journalist, barrister, company legal counsel, and merchant banker, and was leader of the Australian Republican Movement.
In September 2008, Turnbull was chosen Liberal Party leader and Leader of the Opposition. He served for a little over a year. In November 2009, he ...
31 In my opinion Malcolm Turnbull is quite good politician. For instance, because ... (if I wanted to write why, I wrote it here), positive
34 Do not agree. Malcolm Turnbull is bad choice. For instance because ... (if I wanted to write why, I wrote it here), negative
1 Massive ego alert ! Unable to accept that he is out of touch with the wishes of th majority of Australians. Disloyal to Tony Abbot and the Liberal party .Join the Labor party Mal,h, Aitchotwo
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EASTERN suburbs politicians from both major parties have voiced support for a conscience vote on same-sex marriage.
Wentworth Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull said he supports a free vote on gay marriage, telling the ABC yesterday he had raised the matter privately with Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
“Nonetheless, the decision as to whether any such vote should be a conscience vote is one for the shadow cabinet and the party room,” Mr Turnbull said in a statement.
Labor MPs will be allowed a conscience vote when a backbencher introduces a private ...
ELEANOR HALL: At the end of a sometimes poisonous year in the federal parliament, the leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Turnbull, is today urging politicians adopt a new resolution to be nice to each other. Today is the last scheduled day of parliamentary sittings for 2008.The Prime Minister used the occasion to thank his parliamentary team and his family and to wish Coalition MPs well.Malcolm Turnbull called for a more civil and less venomous approach to parliamentary debate.In Canberra, Sabra Lane reports.SABRA LANE: The Prime Minister won't be at question time this afternoon instead he'll ...
MALCOLM Turnbull has launched an extraordinary attack on Julia Gillard, describing her as "very nasty".The Opposition Leader said today that Ms Gillard, the deputy Labor leader, was "vicious" and should spend more time working on her portfolio of education and industrial relations rather than working up nasty things to say in parliament.PARLIAMENT: Lockdown as business piles upHis remarks follow nasty exchanges on the floor of Parliament House this week, including deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop's "The Claw" move, when she made a cat's claw gesture at Ms Gillard."Well, let me just say; ...
Conroy Misleads on Cross-Subsidy Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy and other MPs have recently misrepresented the Coalition’s policy, wrongly claiming we will abolish the cross subsidy for broadband services to rural and regional Australia.
These misleading statements come as Politifact rated recent comments made by Labor MPs about the cost of connecting to the Coalition’s NBN as “mostly false”.
Senator Conroy recently [...]
Transcript – Doorstop – 16 May 2013 TRANSCRIPT OF THE HON. MALCOLM TURNBULL MP
DOORSTOP INTERVIEW
CANBERRA
Subjects: National Broadband Network; Pairing Arrangements
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MALCOLM TURNBULL:
The budget has revealed what Stephen Conroy has managed to conceal. Over the next three years the budget has revealed the Government will put $3.5 billion less capital to NBN Co than previously planned. The reason the Budget papers [...]
TRANSCRIPT – TODAY SHOW – 24 MAY 2013 TRANSCRIPT OF THE HON MALCOLM TURNBULL MP
INTERVIEW WITH LISA WILKINSON AND DAVID BRADBURY
TODAY SHOW
Topics: Ford closure, Hazel Hawke
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LISA WILKINSON:
It is time now for ‘In the House’ as we countdown to September 14. And joining us today are Shadow Communications Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and Assistant Treasurer, David Bradbury. Good morning to both of you. [...]
Stephen Conroy still can’t help himself Stephen Conroy once more is misrepresenting the Coalition’s broadband policy. Today the Minister inspected a new apartment building in Melbourne called “Art on the Park” which apparently has NBN Co fibre connections in each of the yet to be occupied apartments
Of course this is precisely the type of greenfield development where,it is cost effective [...]