Malcolm Turnbull

The Honourable Malcolm Turnbull MP


29th Prime Minister of Australia Elections: 2016
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 September 2015
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Governor-General	Peter Cosgrove
Deputy	Warren Truss Barnaby Joyce
Preceded by	Tony Abbott
Leader of the Liberal Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 September 2015
Deputy	Julie Bishop
Preceded by	Tony Abbott
In office 16 September 2008 – 1 December 2009
Deputy	Julie Bishop
Preceded by	Brendan Nelson
Succeeded by	Tony Abbott
Minister for Communications
In office 18 September 2013 – 14 September 2015
Prime Minister	Tony Abbott
Preceded by	Anthony Albanese
Succeeded by	Mitch Fifield
Leader of the Opposition
In office 16 September 2008 – 1 December 2009
Prime Minister	Kevin Rudd
Deputy	Julie Bishop
Preceded by	Brendan Nelson
Succeeded by	Tony Abbott
Minister for the Environment and Water
In office 30 January 2007 – 3 December 2007
Prime Minister	John Howard
Preceded by	Ian Campbell
Succeeded by	Peter Garrett
Member of the Australian Parliament for Wentworth
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 October 2004
Preceded by	Peter King
Personal details
Born	Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (1954-10-24) 24 October 1954 (age 62) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Political party	Liberal Party
Other political affiliations	Coalition
Spouse(s)	Lucy Hughes (m. 1980)
Children	2
Residence	The Lodge
Alma mater	University of Sydney Brasenose College, Oxford
Religion	Roman Catholicism (formerly Presbyterianism)
Website	Official website

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Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) is the 29th and current Prime Minister of Australia and the Leader of the Liberal Party. He assumed both offices after defeating Tony Abbott in a leadership spill on 14 September 2015. The incumbent Turnbull Government was re-elected at the 2016 federal election.

Turnbull attended Sydney Grammar School before going to the University of Sydney, where he attained a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws. Turnbull then attended Brasenose College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he attained a Bachelor of Civil Law. For over two decades prior to entering politics, Turnbull worked in both personal and managerial positions as a journalist, a lawyer, a merchant banker, a venture capitalist, and Chairman of the Australian Republican Movement. A self-made multi-millionaire, Turnbull purchased a stake of internet service provider Ozemail in 1994 for $500,000 and sold his stake just months before the dot com bubble burst in 1999 for $57 million, paving the way to his current estimated net worth of above $200 million with entries in the BRW Rich 200 list.