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Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954), Australian politician, was the Federal Minister for Environment and Water Resources until November 2007. He is a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Wentworth in Sydney's eastern suburbs since October 2004. He was a barrister, merchant banker, and leader of the Australian Republican Movement before entering parliamentary politics. In light of the Liberal Party's defeat at the Federal elections, and former Treasurer Peter Costello declining the role of Opposition Leader, Malcolm Turnbull has announced his intention to run for Opposition Leader. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (804x905, 94 KB) Summary Photo by User:Adam Carr, November 2005 Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The Hon. ... Location in Sydney The Federal Division of Wentworth is a foundation division of the Australian Parliament, created at the Federation of the Australian Colonies as the Commonwealth of Australia. ... is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. ... Lucy Turnbull, Australian politician, is a former Lord Mayor of Sydney and is the wife of businessman and fellow politician, Malcolm Turnbull. ... is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The current Australian Minister for Environment and Water Resources is the Hon Malcolm Turnbull. ... The 2007 election for the federal Parliament of Australia is currently taking place on Saturday 24 November. ... The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. ... Type Lower house Speaker of the House David Hawker, Liberal since November 16, 2004 Members 150 Political groups Liberal Party (74) ALP (60) National Party (12) Country Liberal Party (1) Last elections 9 October 2004 Meeting place Parliament House, Canberra, ACT Web site House of Representatives Entrance to the House... Location in Sydney The Federal Division of Wentworth is a foundation division of the Australian Parliament, created at the Federation of the Australian Colonies as the Commonwealth of Australia. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... The Eastern Suburbs is a general term which is used to describe the metropolitan area directly to the east and south-east of the Sydney central business district in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... Merchant banking refers to investment by a bank in a non-financial business. ... The Australian Republican Movement was founded in July 1991. ...

Early life

Turnbull's mother was writer and academic Coral Lansbury, but his parents separated when he was nine and he was brought up by his father.^[1]^[2]^[3] He spent his first three years of school at Vaucluse Public School. He continued his primary education at Sydney Grammar Prep, St Ives. He then went to Sydney Grammar School's Senior school at College Street in Sydney. He was Dux of his year at the Prep school and was the Senior Prefect and Captain of the School (top in the humanities subjects) at the Senior school. In 1987, in memory of his late father, he set up the Bruce Turnbull means-tested scholarship at Sydney Grammar School, which offers full remission of fees to a student who is unable to pay the school's fees. Coral Lansbury (1929 â€“ 3 April 1991) was an Australian-born writer and accademic. ... Sydney Grammar School (colloquially known as Grammar)[4] is an independent, secular, selective day school for boys, located in Darlinghurst, Edgecliff and St Ives, all suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ...

Turnbull graduated from Sydney University with a double degree in law and arts. He then studied law at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar from 1978 to 1980. He studied for a Bachelor of Civil Law degree while at Oxford and then returned to Australia. While at University in Sydney he worked as a political journalist for The Nation Review, Radio 2SM and Channel 9 covering state politics. While at Oxford he worked for The Sunday Times of London as well as contributing to a number of other newspapers and magazines in the United States and Australia. He was married to Lucy Hughes in 1980 at Cumnor, near Oxford, while he was studying at Oxford, and he and Lucy returned to Australia later that year when he was admitted to the Bar. Turnbull left the Bar in 1983 to become the General Counsel for Consolidated Press Holdings Limited, the Packer family's media group. He rose to the public's attention as the successful advocate in the Spycatcher trial (he blocked the British Government's attempts to suppress the memoirs of a former MI5 agent), and later wrote a book on the trial. The University of Sydney, established in 1850, is the oldest university in Australia, and it is located in Sydney, the capital city of the state of New South Wales. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Rhodes House in Oxford, designed by Sir Herbert Baker. ... Bachelor of Civil Law or BCL is the name of various degrees in law conferred by English-language universities. ... Nation Review was a weekly Australian left wing publication, which ran for almost ten years until 1981. ... 2SM is an Australian radio station, licensed to and serving Sydney, New South Wales, broadcasting on 1269 kilohertz on the AM band. ... The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian television network based in Willoughby, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney. ... The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ... Cumnor is a small village just to the west of Oxford [1], it has a population of about 2000 people. ... Spycatcher cover Spycatcher is a book by the former MI5 secret service operative and Assistant Director Peter Wright. ... MI-5 redirects here. ...

Career

Turnbull has also had a career in business. He was General Counsel and Secretary for Australian Consolidated Press Holdings Group, the family company of Kerry Packer, from 1983 to 1985. During this time he defended Packer against the "Goanna" allegations made by the Costigan Commission. In partnership with Bruce McWilliam he established his own law firm, Turnbull McWilliam, in 1986 and in that year successfully defended Peter Wright in his battle with the British Government over his book Spycatcher. In 1987 he established an investment banking firm, Whitlam Turnbull & Co Ltd in partnership with Neville Wran (former Labor Premier of New South Wales) and the former State Bank of NSW chief executive, Nicholas Whitlam (son of Gough Whitlam, former Labor Prime Minister of Australia). Whitlam parted company with the others in 1990 and from then until 1997 when Turnbull moved to become a managing director and later a partner of Goldman Sachs, the firm operated as Turnbull & Partners Ltd. Turnbull was also chair of Australia's leading email company OzEmail Ltd (1994-99), a director of FTR Holdings Ltd (1995-2004), chair and managing director of Goldman Sachs Australia (1997-2001) and a partner with Goldman Sachs and Co (1998-2001). Australian Consolidated Press (ACP), a member of Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd. ... Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer AC (17 December 1937 â€“ 26 December 2005) was an Australian publishing, media and gaming tycoon. ... The Costigan Commission (officially titled the Royal Commission on the Activities of the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union)was a controversial Australian enquiry. ... See also Peter Wright (rugby player) and Pete Wright (musician) Peter Wright (born on August 9, 1916 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom - died April 27, 1995 in Tasmania, Australia) was a former MI5 counterintelligence officer noted for writing the controversial book Spycatcher (ISBN 0670820555), which was part memoir, part expos... Neville Kenneth Wran AC QC (born October 11, 1926) was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 until 1986. ... List of Premiers of New South Wales Before the 1890s there was no formal party system in New South Wales. ... Nicholas Richard Whitlam born 6 December 1945, is an Australian businessman, the son of former Prime Minister Edward Gough Whitlam and Margaret Whitlam. ... Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (, pronounced Goff), is an Australian former politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia. ... Judicial High Court Lower Courts Constitution State and territory governments Executive Governors and Administrators Premiers and Chief Ministers Legislative Parliaments and Assemblies State electoral systems ACT - NSW - NT - Qld. ... E-mail, or email, is short for electronic mail and is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... OzEmail is a major Internet service provider in Australia. ... The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ...

In 1999 Turnbull sold OzEmail to the then telecommunications giant MCI Worldcom. Turnbull's stake was reportedly worth nearly A$60 million; he is now often quoted as having a net worth of some A$150 million, making him Australia's richest parliamentarian. For a time, WorldCom (WCOM) was the United States second largest long distance phone company (AT&T was the largest). ...

From 1993 to 2000 Turnbull was the chairman of the Australian Republican Movement. He was an elected delegate at the Constitutional Convention in Canberra in February, 1998, and in 1999 published a book on the subject, called Fighting for the Republic. Following the unsuccessful 1999 referendum campaign to establish an Australian republic, in 2000 Turnbull retired as chairman of the Australian Republican Movement. Turnbull left the board of Ausflag in 1994 after being asked for his resignation and in 2004 joined the Australian National Flag Association.^[4] The Australian Republican Movement was founded in July 1991. ... In Australian history, the term Constitutional Convention refers to five distinct gatherings. ... For other uses, see Canberra (disambiguation). ... The 1999 Australian republic referendum was a two question referendum held on 6 November 1999. ... Look up republic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ausflag is an apolitical Australian not for profit organization that exists to promote debate on Australias national symbols, in particular the flag of Australia. ... The Australian National Flag Association is a lobby group founded on 10 May 1983 in response to suggestions that the current Australian flag is not appropriately representative of the nation, and should be changed. ...

In May 2002, Turnbull appeared before the HIH royal commission and was questioned on Goldman Sachs' involvement on the possible privatisation of one of the acquisitions of the collapsed insurance company. The Royal Commmissioner's Report made no adverse findings against him or Goldman Sachs. HIH Insurance was Australias second largest insurance company, which was placed into provisional liquidation on 15 March 2001. ... In states that are Commonwealth Realms a Royal Commission is a major government public inquiry into an issue. ... Privatization (sometimes privatisation, denationalization, or — especially in India — disinvestment) is the process of transferring property, from public ownership to private ownership. ...

Despite Turnbull's involvement with the republican movement, his frequent criticism of Prime Minister John Howard during the referendum, and his business partnership with Neville Wran, he has always been politically aligned with the Liberal Party. He was Federal Treasurer of the Liberal Party, and a member of the Liberal Party's Federal and New South Wales Executives, 2002-03, and was also a director of the Menzies Research Centre, the Liberal Party's research centre. John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. ... Neville Kenneth Wran AC QC (born October 11, 1926) was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 until 1986. ... The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. ... MRC logo The Menzies Research Centre in an Australian think tank that began in 1994 to undertake research into public policy issues. ...

Politics

Turnbull first ran for Liberal Party preselection for the seat of Wentworth in the eastern suburbs of Sydney in 1981, but was beaten by Peter Coleman.^[1] In 2003 Turnbull announced that he was seeking a seat in Federal Parliament. In early 2004 he won another hotly contested preselection battle for Wentworth, defeating Peter King, the sitting Liberal member. King ran for the seat at the 2004 election as an independent. This turned the traditionally safe Liberal electorate into an electoral wildcard, the contest for the seat becoming a three man race between Turnbull, King and Labor candidate David Patch. During the campaign, Turnbull spent over $600,000 on electoral expenditure.^[5] The Liberal vote fell 10 percent, but Turnbull still won. Location in Sydney The Federal Division of Wentworth is a foundation division of the Australian Parliament, created at the Federation of the Australian Colonies as the Commonwealth of Australia. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... This article is about the Australian politician. ... Type Bicameral Houses House of Representatives Senate Speaker of the House of Representatives David Hawker, Liberal Party since 16 November 2004 President of the Senate Alan Ferguson, Liberal Party since 14 August 2007 Members 226 (150 Representatives, 76 Senators) Political groups Liberal Party ALP National Party Country Liberal Party Greens... Peter King Peter Edward King (born 29 June 1952), Australian politician, was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 2001 to October 2004, representing the Division of Wentworth, New South Wales. ... Federal elections were held in Australia on 9 October 2004. ...

Since his election Turnbull has made a series of speeches on economic matters, particularly taxation, which some commentators have seen as implied criticisms of the policies of the Treasurer, Peter Costello, although Turnbull denies this. Peter Howard Costello (born 14 August 1957) is an Australian politician. ...

Announcing his cabinet reshuffle on 24 January 2006, Australian Prime Minister John Howard promoted Turnbull from the backbench to Parliamentary Secretary, with special responsibility for water. In this new capacity he reported directly to the Prime Minister [1]. is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. ... In the parliamentary systems of several Commonwealth countries, such as Canada and Australia, it is customary for the prime minister to appoint parliamentary secretaries (in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, parliamentary assistants) from their caucus to assist cabinet ministers with their work. ...

On 26 September 2006 John Howard announced the creation, within the department of the Prime Minister, of the new "Office of Water Resources" to address the problem of drought in Australia. Turnbull was in charge of this office until he was elevated by Prime Minister John Howard to head the Environment and Water Resources portfolio in January 2007. is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. ...

In February 2007 Turnbull was criticised for claiming a government allowance of $175 a night and paying it to his wife as rent while living in a townhouse owned by her in Canberra.^[6]

Turnbull retained his New South Wales division at the 2007 election. Following the defeat of John Howard in his electorate of Bennelong and the decision by deputy leader Peter Costello to not contest the leadership of the Liberal Party, there is widespread speculation that Turnbull will be the new Opposition Leader after his announcement on 25 November that he would contest the Liberal leadership.^[7] Look up division in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The 2007 election for the federal Parliament of Australia is currently taking place on Saturday 24 November. ... John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. ... The Division of Bennelong is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. ... Peter Howard Costello (born 14 August 1957) is an Australian politician. ... In the Australian House of Representatives, the Leader of the Opposition sits at the front table to the left of the Speakers Chair (on the right-hand side in this photo). ... is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Criticism

In his position as Environment Minister, he has approved a proposed $1.7 billion Bell Bay Pulp Mill in Tasmania's north, near Launceston.^[8] His final approval of the Bell Bay Pulp Mill project of Gunns Ltd came on the 4th of October 2007, allegedly influenced by Gunns' ongoing donations to the Liberal Party. Mr Turnbull's approval followed a report by the Government's chief scientist Jim Peacock on the project's potential environmental impact, which requires the project to meet 48 "strict environmental" conditions. Critics have accused him of failing to assess the environmental cost of the mill in terms of forest destruction and greenhouse emissions. It is reported that the Pulp Mill will, amongst a number of other toxic emissions, increase Australia's yearly contribution to greenhouse gas emission by more than 2 per cent. This reportedly amounts to an extra 10 million tonnes of greenhouse gas a year. Proposed project site The Bell Bay Pulp Mill, also known as the Tamar Valley Pulp Mill, is a proposed $1. ... Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia, population approximately 90,000 (Greater urban and 99,100 statistical division), located at the juncture of the North Esk, South Esk, and Tamar rivers. ... Proposed project site The Bell Bay Pulp Mill, also known as the Tamar Valley Pulp Mill, is a proposed $1. ... Gunns Limited (ASX: ) is a major forestry enterprise located in Tasmania, Australia. ... Dr Jim Peacock is the current Chief Scientist of Australia, appointed in 2006, and President of the Australian Academy of Science. ...

In 2007, Turnbull promised that his government, if elected, would grant same-sex couples death benefits in Commonwealth superannuation schemes, a similar promise to which was made three years prior during the 2004 Federal election campaign.^[9]

Malcolm Turnbull directed his preferences to Fred Nile's Christian Democratic Party and Family First.^[10] Preferential voting (or preference voting) is a type of ballot structure used in several electoral systems in which voters rank a list or group of candidates in order of preference. ... Frederick John Nile (born 15 September 1934), Australian politician and clergyman, is a member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, Australia. ... The Christian Democratic Party (CDP) is a minor political party in Australia. ... The Family First Party is a political party in Australia. ...

During the 2007 election campaign, Turnbull announced that the then Government, would contribute $10 million to the investigation of an untried Russian technology that aims to trigger rainfall from the atmosphere, even when there are no clouds. Literature suggests that the technology is based on bogus science. The Australian Rain Corporation presented research documents written in Russian, explained by a Russian researcher who spoke to local experts in Russian ^[11].

Although Turnbull claimed that Australian Rain Corporation is Australian-based, investigations have shown that it is in fact 75% Swiss-owned. It was also revealed that a prominent stakeholder in the Australian Rain Corporation, Matt Handbury, is a nephew of Rupert Murdoch. Turnbull has refused to answer questions regarding Matt Handbury's contribution to the Wentworth Forum, the main fund-raising organisation for Turnbull's 2007 election campaign ^[11]. Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian born United States citizen who is a global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York. ...

Family

Turnbull is married, with two children, Alexander and Daisy, and lives in Sydney. His wife, Lucy Turnbull, née Hughes, a prominent businesswoman and a former Lord Mayor of Sydney, is the daughter of distinguished Australian barrister and former federal Attorney-General Tom Hughes AO QC, and her uncle is writer and art critic Robert Hughes. This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... Lucy Turnbull, Australian politician, is a former Lord Mayor of Sydney and is the wife of businessman and fellow politician, Malcolm Turnbull. ... This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of the City of Sydney Local Government Area, Sydney, Australia. ... // Artists impression of an English and Irish barrister A barrister is a lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions which employ a split profession (as opposed to a fused profession) in relation to legal representation. ... Thomas Eyre Forrest Hughes (born 26 November 1923), Australian politician and lawyer, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1963 to 1972, representing first the seat of Parkes and then (when Parkes was abolished in 1969) the seat of Berowra. ... Robert Studley Forrest Hughes (born July 28, 1938), usually known simply as Robert Hughes, OA is an Australian art critic, writer, documentary broadcaster and republican (anti-monarchist). ...

Although Turnbull is a convert to Roman Catholicism he has found himself at odds with the Church's teaching on abortion and stem cell research. Turnbull supported legislation relaxing restrictions on abortion pill RU486 and he also voted for the legalisation of Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (human cloning). He did so despite the vocal public opposition to both proposals by Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney. The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Mifepristone is a synthetic steroid. ... In genetics and developmental biology, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is a laboratory technique for creating an ovum with a donor nucleus (see process below) . It can be used in embryonic stem cell research, or in regenerative medicine where it is sometimes referred to as therapeutic cloning. ... George Cardinal Pell, AC, (born 8 June 1941) is an Australian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. ...

Writing

Turnbull has written several books in relation to his contributions to the Republican debate, as well as his experiences during the Spycatcher trial. Notable examples of his writings include: "The Spycatcher Trial (1988)"; "The Reluctant Republic (1993, foreword by Robert Hughes)"; and "Fighting for the Republic: the Ultimate Insider's Account (1999)".

In 1994 a portrait of Malcolm Turnbull by artist Bill Leak won the People's choice award at the Archibald Prize. Bill Leak (born 1956) is the daily editorial cartoonist on The Australian newspaper. ... Marcus Willss winning painting in 2006, The Paul Juraszek Monolith, was based on this print by an earlier Marcus, Marcus Gheeraerts The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize, and is the most prominent of all arts prizes, in Australia. ...

Campaign for Opposition Leader

In light of Peter Costello's pursuit of a career in the commercial world following John Howard's electoral defeat, and his declining the role of Opposition Leader, Malcolm Turnbull has announced his intention to run for Opposition Leader. "I will be a candidate for the leadership of the Liberal party at the next party meeting," Mr Turnbull told reporters outside his Sydney home. "I will deliver, if elected to the leadership of the Liberal party, the energy and drive and the determination to win and the commitment to deliver new ideas, new policies, new agendas for the advancement of our country. "That's my commitment and that's why I will be seeking the leadership of the Liberal party when our party room meets in the next week." Mr Turnbull said he had contacted a number of his colleagues today about his candidacy and a number of others had contacted him. "I'm sure there'll be a very competitive field (but) I don't know how competitive," he said. "We have a competitive system and the more candidates we have obviously the better. But we'll see."

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