Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is the 29th and current Prime Minister of Australia. Turnbull became Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia after he defeated the incumbent Tony Abbott at the September 2015 Liberal leadership ballot. He is leading the incumbent Coalition government against the Shorten Labor Opposition at the 2016 federal election.
Malcolm Turnbull was born in Sydney onOctober 1954 to Bruce Bligh Turnbull and Coral Magnolia Lansbury. Turnbulls maternal grandmother, May Lansbury , was born in England. Turnbulls father was a hotel broker. Turnbulls mother was a radio actor, a writer, an academic, and a second cousin of the British film and television actress, Angela Lansbury. Turnbull suffered asthma as a young child. Turnbulls parents separated when he was nine, with Turnbulls mother leaving first for New Zealand, and then the United States. Turnbull was then raised by his father.
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