No more global missions for Malcolm Turnbull


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Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull won’t be sent to any other events as a representative of the Australian government, his successor has confirmed.


Mr Turnbull, while attending a global conference in Bali earlier this week, noted Indonesia held “serious concern” over the Australian government considering moving its embassy in Israel. 


“There is no question, were that move to occur, it would be met with a very negative reaction in Indonesia. This is after all the largest Muslim-majority country in the world,” Mr Turnbull told reporters.


Indonesia President Joko

Asked on 2GB radio on Thursday whether Mr Turnbull would be sent on further missions, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said no.


He said trade and other matters were not part of the former prime minister’s brief for the Our Ocean conference.


The government floated the prospect of shifting the embassy during the final week of by-election campaigning in Mr Turnbull’s former seat of Wentworth, where more than 12 per cent of voters are Jewish.


While the Liberals suffered a devastating swing against them in Wentworth, Mr Morrison has insisted the government is still considering the potential move.


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