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| - Malcolm "Crocodile-Shoes" Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) is the 29th and current Prime Minister of Australia. He became prime minister and Leader of the Liberal Party in 2015 and has been the member of parliament for Wentworth since 2004. Turnbull's career choices perfectly placed him to become a champagne-swilling Liberal party leader in touch with the everyday needs of your average Australian. His jobs included (but were certainly not limited to) a feature writer, lawyer, investment banker and venture capitalist. The rest of the time he was the chairman of the Australian Republican Movement, serving in the position until 2000, when he brought in a man to do it for him. As a politician, he served as Minister for the Environment and Water in 2007 and Leader of the Liberal Party a year later, becoming Leader of the Opposition in 2008. In 2009, Turnbull's support for the carbon reduction scheme created a choked atmosphere between many party members, who were happy to ignite a bit of fossil fuel in order enjoy lobster claws al-fresco. In a snap-ballot, Turnbull lost his grip by a pinch to Tony Abbott, who was famous for barbecuing his bottom feeders. In 2013 Turnbull became Minister of Communications, the Abbot Government's public voice. On 14 September 2015, after consistently poor opinion polling for communications strategy and perception, Turnbull challenged Abbott for the leadership a second time, and won by 10 votes. Turnbull was sworn in as Liberal prime minister the following day and to celebrate, he treated himself to a spanking new Learjet.
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