Since 1975 he had appeared on many television programs discussing psychic matters and debating with skeptics about the perceived value of following ones intuition.

After going to a local spiritualist church to learn mediumship, he found himself looking for spirits in ex-Prime Minister Paul Keating's newly acquired house.

[4] Turnbull soon began giving psychic readings on a part-time basis whilst still maintaining his musical career.

Turnbull made his first television appearance as a psychic in 1975 on Australia’s ‘The Mike Walsh Show', which was telecast live nationally.

Mike Walsh asked him to demonstrate psychometry, which is the supposed ability to read the life of the owner of an object held by the psychic.

Psychic artist Esther Crowley drew a picture in pastels of Turnbull's spirit guide, the late Billy Hill.

The test protocol ensured that these would be 'double blind' experiments, where neither the viewer nor the analyst had any idea what the envelopes contained.

If the raw data provided psychically by Turnbull was similar to photograph 'A', then the prediction would be for the stock chosen to go up.

An annual set of predictions regarding stocks has appeared in the Australian newspaper[19] each January for the past several years.

[25] Since 2005 Turnbull had edited the annual Australian Psychics Directory together with co-publishers Hiromi Mitsuya and Leela J. Williams.

[26] The psychic industry all around the world has become of greater interest to some people, due to the uncertainty of the economic crisis of the past few years.