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Malcolm Turnbull Articles

Labor on the brink of power

It had to be political oblivion for the Australian Labor party leader Bill Shorten when Malcolm Turnbull, who had for years portrayed himself as the Liberals’ once and future king, toppled Tony Abbott to become Australia’s fifth prime minister in five years. The...

The king is dead, long live the king

Australia has a new prime minister, again Malcolm Turnbull has long been Tony Abbott’s nemesis. My first contact with both was as a teenager campaigning for Australia to become a republic at the 1999 referendum. Turnbull was leading the Australian Republican Movement,...

What Ed could learn from Tony (Abbott)

The similarities between UK Labour in opposition and former Australian PM John Howard’s Liberal party in opposition under near-victorious Tony Abbott are more striking than one might first imagine, and there are lessons to be learned…

Australia votes

Australia’s federal election this Saturday will come down to the wire with Labor prime minister Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott’s conservative Liberal party tied 50-50 in the latest opinion polls.

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