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.When the Liberal and National coalition government led by John Howard lost government at the November 2007 federal election, a vote for the Liberal ...
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; ...
