Malcolm Turnbull

Malcolm Bligh Turnbull ( born October 24, 1954 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian politician of the conservative Liberal Party of Australia. The former lawyer and investment banker, served as environment minister and opposition leader.

Malcolm Turnbull, who grew up in relatively humble circumstances in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, initially studied in his hometown of law and art, before he continued his legal education at the elite English at Oxford University. Parallel to his studies, he worked in both countries as a journalist for newspapers, magazines and radio.

Even in England, he married in 1980, who was born in the Australian Mittagong Lucy Hughes, the first woman should hold the office of the Mayor of Sydney itself in 2003. That same year, the couple returned to Australia. There Malcolm Turnbull first worked as a lawyer before he was 1983 Legal advisor of the company Australian Consolidated Press the media tycoon Kerry Packer, he thereby successfully in connection with a sensational tax minimization matter, the so-called " Goanna " affair, defended.

In 1985 he opened his own law firm, Turnbull McWilliam along with Bruce McWilliam. In 1986 he achieved this prominence when he won against British interests, the publication of the book Spycatcher of the former British secret agent Peter Wright. In 1987 he opened together with Nicholas Whitlam, a son of former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Neville Wran, a former Prime Minister of the State of New South Wales, both of the Australian Labor Party, the investment bank Whitlam Turnbull & Co Ltd. After leaving Whitlam 1990, the Bank changed its name as Turnbull & Partners Ltd..

Already at that time Turnbull joined the supervisory board of various companies and also acquired several investments. In 1997 he became head of Goldman Sachs in Australia and there increased already in the following year to partner on. The collaboration with Goldman Sachs lasted until 2001. In 1999 he sold his share of the Internet service provider OzEmail after reports of AUD 60 million at Worldcom.

In 1981 he made ​​his first foray into politics when he unsuccessfully sought the nomination of the Liberal for lying in the affluent eastern suburbs Sydney's federal parliamentary seat of Wentworth.

He became chairman of the anti-monarchist movement in Australia, the Australian Republican Movement in 1993. After his defeat in a referendum in 1999, he retained the presidency in to 2000.

In 2004 he applied again for the seat of Wentworth. He invested here after reports approximately AUD 600,000 of his own money. At first, he edged the incumbent MPs Peter King to run for the Liberals and eventually won the seat despite the fact that the party around 10 % of the vote in Wentworth declining as compared to the previous election. In 2006 he was first entrusted by Prime Minister John Howard to head the Office of Water Resources, before he was at the beginning of the following year to the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources.

After the Howard government was driven out by the Labor Party under Kevin Rudd out of office in November of the same year - Turnbull succeeded in doing in his seat, contrary to the national trend, a slight gain votes - he tried for the post of opposition leader. But with the crucial vote in the Liberal Group, he was defeated by the former Defence Minister Brendan Nelson MD with 45 to 42 votes. Under this Turnbull was Shadow Minister for Finance. Nelson but proved to be paler leader and pulled himself out of a deep survey to the next. In September 2008 there was a renewed struggle coordination between the two by the opposition leadership. Turnbull won this time with 45 to 41 votes.

Under Turnbull is improved, the poll numbers for the opposition without them but seriously annäherten on the values ​​of the ruling Labor Party and its still floating on a wave of general popularity Prime Minister Rudd. Serious damage took the reputation of Turnbull for the first time when he mid-2009 in the so-called OzCar affair misinformation and a fake email from a Liberal related high officials of the Ministry of Finance sat up and subsequently Prime Minister Rudd stressed in Parliament with false accusations.

The end of the guide Turnbull but came about through its viable entry for even at that time advocated by the government emissions trading; the majority of the Liberal party colleagues objected and Turnbull's position was not rewarded in the polls by approval ratings for the opposition. This cumulated in December 2009 in a renewed struggle vote for leadership of the opposition. This time defeated Turnbull the arch-conservative former priesthood students Tony Abbott with 41 to 42 votes.

Turnbull was no appeal in the shadow cabinet, and announced his resignation to seek re-election as an MP in the upcoming parliamentary elections in late 2010, but what he recanted a few months later. After the elections, in which the Liberals posted electoral gains, but in the end due to lack of confidence by the Independent Members were not able to form the government, he was Shadow Minister for Telecommunications.

In 2009, he was with a fortune estimated at AUD 186 million as one of the 200 richest Australians and as the wealthiest MPs.

References and links

  • Profile on the website of the Parliament
  • Personal website of Malcolm Turnbull
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  • Member of the Liberal Party of Australia
  • Goldman Sachs
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