The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP

Recent Speaker

Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband

August 3, 2011

11.30am - 1.30pm

"Designing the Media Infrastructure of the 21st Century: Investing in Pipes and People"

Malcolm Turnbull will discuss three core elements of broadband policy under a future Coalition Government: getting the right industry structure, encouraging investment in next generation networks and fostering competition.  He will offer his take on current debates over media integrity and diversity, and the respective roles of governments and the marketplace in ensuring a free and fearless press endures into the digital age.

Malcolm is a member of the House of Representatives and is currently Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband. He was Leader of the Opposition from 16 September 2008 to 1 December 2009 and prior to that Shadow Treasurer.

Elected to Federal Parliament as the Member for Wentworth in 2004, Malcolm was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister with responsibility for national water policy, and in 2007 appointed to Cabinet as the Minister for Environment and Water Resources.

Mr Turnbull graduated from Sydney University with degrees in Arts and Law. He was a Rhodes scholar and completed a further law degree at Oxford.

Malcolm worked as a journalist both in Australia and the United Kingdom before he began legal practice in 1980. He successfully defended the former MI5 agent Peter Wright in his efforts to publish his memoirs, Spycatcher.  

He established his own investment banking firm in 1987 and during that time co-founded a number of Australian companies including OzEmail Ltd, Australia first large Internet service provider.  

He joined Goldman Sachs & Co in 1997 as Chairman of its Australian business becoming a partner of the global firm in 1998.

He is married to Lucy and they have two adult children.