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The first Turnbull ministry (Liberal–National Coalition) was the 69th ministry of the Government of Australia, led by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. It succeeded the Abbott ministry after a leadership spill that took place on 14 September 2015 ended Prime Minister Tony Abbott 's leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia . [ 1 ]
Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) is an Australian former politician and businessman who served as the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and was the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Wentworth from 2004 to 2018.
The Turnbull government was the federal executive government of Australia led by the 29th prime minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, from 2015 to 2018.It succeeded the Abbott government, which brought the Coalition to power at the 2013 Australian federal election.
Shorten had been consistently polling better than Abbott and Labor better than the Abbott Coalition government from the July 2014 Australian federal budget until the September 2015 Liberal leadership ballot when Malcolm Turnbull succeeded Abbott as Prime Minister. Turnbull's honeymoon polling soared above Shorten with the Turnbull Coalition ...
[32] [33] [34] The change of Prime Minister also means that Australia had five Prime Ministers in six years. [35] Turnbull became the first former Opposition Leader (in contrast to a sitting one) to become Prime Minister, with the notable exceptions of John Howard and Robert Menzies (who had both had a hiatus between a previous period as ...
In September 2015, Malcolm Turnbull called for another spill, directly challenging Tony Abbott in a rematch between the two, and winning the vote 54–44 to return to the position of leader of the Liberal Party, and as a result, displaced Abbott as Prime Minister of Australia.
Malcolm Turnbull, who later became the Australian Prime Minister, was then chairman of OzEmail. He had purchased a stake in OzEmail in 1994 for $500,000 and sold his stake for $57 million in 1999 to WorldCom .
He served as a parliamentary secretary in the Abbott government from 2013 to 2015, before being promoted to the ministry by Malcolm Turnbull. Fletcher subsequently served as Minister for Major Projects, Territories, and Local Government (2015–2016), Urban Infrastructure and Cities (2016–2018), Families and Social Services (2018–2019), and ...