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Malcolm Turnbull, ‘You’ve got to recognise some political realities’ Liberal Leadership

Malcolm Turnbull, ‘You’ve got to recognise some political realities’ Liberal Leadership

Since the record-breaking run of Robert Menzies, there have been 14 leaders of the Liberal Party of Australia. Each of them has been influenced in various ways by the party’s founder, as they try to take up the essential task of upholding the principles of Australian liberalism (which indeed is a political tradition which long predates Menzies himself). In this special series of the Afternoon Light podcast, we intend to speak to each of the surviving leaders of the party about their connection to Menzies, philosophical beliefs, and time spent heading the centre-right of Australian politics.

In this week’s episode of the Afternoon Light podcast, Robert Menzies Institute CEO Georgina Downer talks to Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia between 2015-2018, about his beliefs and experiences in the role.

Malcolm Turnbull is Australia’s 29th Prime Minister and the 12th leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, serving from 2008-9 and then from 2015-2018. He served as Minister for the Environment in the Howard Government and Minister for Communications in the Abbott Government. His rise to prominence came on the back of his success as a barrister, and heading the Australian Republican Movement from 1993-2000.