Malcolm Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull
Malcolm Bligh Turnbullis 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 election on 14 September 2015. He was subsequently elected in his own right at the 2016 federal election...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 October 1954
CitySydney, Australia
CountryAustralia
views people different
Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security.
people learning-from-failure
People learn from failure or from lack of success.
drama commitment forgiving
If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.
jobs struggle thinking
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
fire next natural
We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.
believe errors speak
I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.
integrity issues opponents
Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having a credible policy but we are now without integrity. We have given our opponents the irrefutable, undeniable evidence that we cannot be trusted.
cards-youre-dealt play hands
What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.
party thinking views
Everyone's got different views. I think you're better off staying within the party and prosecuting those views than stepping out of it.
whispering radio ears
I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
climate action accepting
If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
way months weight
The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.
lying sick cover-ups
I'm sick of the cover-ups, I'm sick of the lies, and so are the bloody veterans, that come out daily of the department's mouth.
moral kind turmoil
I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.