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 ...
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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; ...
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News, Taxes and the Internet
In an interview with the AFR published today I raised an important long-term issue for public policy: the erosion of our tax base due to the growing significance of online commerce and offshore-domiciled service providers in many sectors and markets. Many transactions which previously generated economic activity and tax revenue in Australia no longer do [...] |
Turnbull: Nearly 110,000 homes waiting for NBN fibre
Malcolm Turnbull has said nearly 110,000 households in greenfield estates are on the NBN Co waiting list to receive fibre connections. |
North Bondi Surf Club Set to Go Ahead With Upgrade
North Bondi Surf Club yesterday voted in a Special General Meeting to proceed with renovations to the club house which will see the building become one of the great landmarks of Sydney.
The decision is a great vote of confidence in the vision shown by the club’s leadership under President Grant McMah and the end of [...] |
Transcript – 2UE Sydney – 18 May 2012
TRANSCRIPT OF THE HON. MALCOLM TURNBULL MP
INTERVIEW WITH PAUL MURRAY
2UE RADIO SYDNEY
Subjects: Death of Don Ritchie
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PAUL MURRAY:
A real hero of the Eastern Suburbs has passed away in the past few days. Don Ritchie was known as ‘the Angel of the Gap’. Malcolm Turnbull joins us on the phone, not to talk about politics [...] |
