Seven retro photos of Malcolm Turnbull looking like a future prime minister

By Patrick Begley
Updated September 15 2015 - 12:08pm, first published 12:06pm

At the tender age of 21, Malcolm Bligh Turnbull told close friends he would be prime minister by 40. And while it took him two decades longer than planned to reach the Lodge, the "arrongant, likeable rascal" Rhodes scholar has always tried to look - and sound - the part.

Malcolm Turnbull at the 1999 Constitutional Convention, looking less than cosy with John Howard, the monarchist he said

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