The 2016 Australian federal election was a double dissolution election held on Saturday 2 July to elect all 226 members of the 45th Parliament of Australia, after an extended eight-week official campaign period. It was the first double dissolution election since the 1987 election and the first under a new voting system for the Senate that replaced group voting tickets with optional preferential voting.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in March 2016
Malcolm Turnbull
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Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is an Australian former politician and businessman who served as the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Turnbull with Deputy Leader Julie Bishop (right) and Helen Coonan (left) in July 2009
Turnbull at the 2014 International Telecommunication Union Conference in South Korea