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'''Malcolm Bligh Turnbull''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC}} (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 [[Liberal Party of Australia|leader of the
Turnbull graduated from the [[University of Sydney]] as a Bachelor of Arts and a [[Bachelor of Laws]], before attending [[Brasenose College, Oxford]], as a [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]], earning a [[Bachelor of Civil Law]] degree. For more than two decades, he worked as a journalist, lawyer, [[merchant bank]]er, and [[venture capital]]ist. He was Chair of the [[Australian Republic Movement|Australian Republican Movement]] from 1993 to 2000, and was one of the leaders of the unsuccessful "Yes" campaign in the [[1999 Australian republic referendum|1999 republic referendum]]. He was first elected to the [[Australian House of Representatives]] as a [[member of parliament]] (MP) for the [[division of Wentworth]] in [[New South Wales]] at the [[2004 Australian federal election|2004 election]], and was [[Minister of the Environment (Australia)|Minister for the Environment and Water]] in the [[Howard government]] from January 2007 until December 2007.
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