Editing History of Australia (section)

==== Turnbull government (2015–2018) ====
[[File:Turnbull selfie with Xi Trump Quang.jpg|thumb|[[Malcolm Turnbull]] takes a selfie with [[Trần Đại Quang]], [[Donald Trump]] and [[Xi Jinping]], November 2017.]]

The new Turnbull government announced a National Innovation and Science Agenda and delivered a Budget featuring cuts to company tax.{{sfnp |Turnbull |2020 |pp=179–181, 321–323 }} However, the [[2016 Australian federal election|elections of July 2016]] saw the government returned with a majority on only one and a minority in the Senate. Following a national postal plebiscite, the government legalised [[Same-sex marriage in Australia|same-sex marriage]] in December 2017.{{sfnp |Turnbull |2020 |pp=516–519 }}

In foreign affairs, Australia signed a refugee exchange deal with the US in September 2016, allowing those in detention on Manus Island and Nauru to be settled in the US.{{sfnp |Turnbull |2020 |p=400 }} There was increased tension with China over its policies in the South China Sea, Australia's new laws targeting foreign influence in domestic politics, and a ban, on national security grounds, on Chinese companies supplying Australia's [[5G]] communications network.{{sfnp |Turnbull |2020 |pp=422–435 }}{{primary source inline |reason=independent source needed for "on national security grounds" bit |date=April 2025}}

In 2017, the United States, Japan, India and Australia agreed to revive the [[Quadrilateral Security Dialogue]] in order to counter Chinese ambitions in the [[South China Sea]].<ref name="power_scmp2">{{cite news|last1=Power|first1=John|date=24 February 2021|title=What is the Quad, and how will it impact US-China relations under the Biden administration?|work=South China Morning Post|url=https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/explained/article/3122933/what-quad-and-how-will-it-impact-us-china-relations-under-biden|access-date=13 April 2021}}</ref> Australia signed a modified [[Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership|Trans-Pacific Partnership]] trade agreement with 10 other nations in March 2018 after the US withdrew from the original agreement.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)|url=https://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/in-force/cptpp/comprehensive-and-progressive-agreement-for-trans-pacific-partnership|access-date=18 April 2021|website=Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade|archive-date=30 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430135331/https://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/in-force/cptpp/comprehensive-and-progressive-agreement-for-trans-pacific-partnership|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The government lost five by-elections in July 2018. When, in August, the government made a commitment to meet Australia's [[emissions target]] under the [[Paris Agreement]], a number of coalition members rebelled. The controversy harmed the government, which had already lost more than 30 consecutive Newspolls. The parliamentary Liberal Party elected Scott Morrison as its new leader and he was sworn in as prime minister.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bongiorno|first=Frank|title=From Turnbull to Morrison: The trust divide|publisher=Melbourne University Press|year=2019|isbn=9780522876130|editor-last=Evans|editor-first=Mark|location=Melbourne|pages=325–26|chapter=A tale of two leaders: Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison in Historical perspective|editor-last2=Grattan|editor-first2=Michelle|editor-last3=McCaffrie|editor-first3=Brendan}}</ref>