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Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has fronted the May 2015 power issue of GQ Magazine. And the striking image, released today, has certainly captured the nation’s (and we’re sure, his colleagues) attention.
In an eight page feature titled ‘Primed Minister,’ Mr Turnbull all but confirmed he was planning to put his hand up to be our 29th prime minister had the leadership spill earlier this year been successful.
The magazine first caught up with Mr Turnbull in Febuary, days after the spill against Prime Minister Tony Abbott fell through. When they asked the 60-year-old if he would have run he said, “People would have been astonished if I hadn’t.”
One thing is for sure: the feature, on newwstands from Monday, and the associated photoshoot with Mr Turnbull is going to cause a stir.
It got us at The Weekly thinking about our own gorgeous photoshoot with Malcolm and his wife, Lucy we have done for our own magazine pages. Then we started looking back at our catalogue of photoshoots we have done with Australian politicians and their families, and decided we had to share them with you. Click through to see some of the most iconic political images we have taken over the years.
The cover in question.
Cheryl Kernot.
Cheryl Kernot was featured in the Australian Women’s Weekly March 2005 edition. She was met with mass ridicule for this infamous shoot with her feather boa.
Julia Gillard and mum.
My Mother, My Mentor – Moira Gillard and Julia Gillard for The Weekly June 2013 edition.
Morris Iemma, and wife.
Morris Iemma and his wife Santina invited us into their home for a family feast with a definite Italian flavour in 2007.
Julia Gillard and her partner.
Julia Gillard and her partner, Tim Mathieson, posed for The Weekly in 2013.
Belinda Neal
Belinda Neal spoke to The Weekly in September 2009 following that ‘Iguana’ scandal. She told us, “I will fight for my marriage” to husband Federal MP John della Bosca.
Joe Hockey and son.
Treasurer Joe Hockey showed off his beautiful family to The Weekly in 2009. Here hs is holding newborn son, Ignatius.
Joe Hockey with his family.
Treasurer Joe Hockey gave The Weekly a peek into life with wife Melissa, daughter Adelaide, and sons Xavier and Ignatius in 2009.
Tony Abbott with his family.
Liberal Leader Tony Abbott with his family for our ‘Abbott’s Women’ feature in 2013.
Julia Gillard
Ex Prime Minister Julia Gillard was our cover star in June 2013.
“I’m not a person who agonises,” she said.
“You always look back over your life and say there are some things you might have liked to have done (differently)… but I think I’ll be really comfortable with the choices I’ve made.”
Julie Bishop.
Julie Bishop, Deputy leader of the Federal Opposition, posed in all white for the Weekly Febuary 2013 edition.
Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull.
Malcolm Turnbull told The Weekly about the moment he fell in love with his wife Lucy in our January 2014 edition. “It was her smile that entranced me. It was so open, so happy, so refreshingly sane, at once mischievously funny and worldly wise and, above all, full of love,” he wrote.
Jacquie Lambie
Senator Jacqui Lambie sprawled on the couch and told The Weekly about why she chose to go into politics in our January 2015 edition.
Jacquie Lambie.
In an interview with The Weekly in January 2015, Senator Lambie described Prime Minister Tony Abbott as having ‘no guts’ and ‘no balls’ after he twice cancelled plans to meet with her before Christmas.
