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Malcolm Turnbull accidentally impersonates Michael Bolton

Nick Pearson
Nick Pearson

Malcolm Turnbull as Michael Bolton, and Michael Bolton.

Malcolm Turnbull as Michael Bolton, and Michael Bolton. AP

Being a backbencher at an Australian politician's press conference is a precarious proposition.

If you stand in the right spot, you get your face on the news.

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If you get it wrong, you turn the prime minister into soft-rock icon Michael Bolton.

And not recent Michael Bolton. We're talking mid-'90s perm-mullet Michael Bolton.

Perhaps the Prime Minister was attempting to replicate the accidental mullets that made Bill Shorten a viral sensation last month.

Time will tell if copying the look of a gravel-voiced crooner will win over Australia's swing voters.

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