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Julie Isabel Bishop MP (born 17 July 1956) is an Australian politician who has been the Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2013 and the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party since 2007.[2][3] She is the first female Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and only the third woman to have held the title of Deputy Leader of the Opposition. She has also been a Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1998 for the seat of Curtin in Western Australia.
She previously served in the Howard Government as the Minister for Ageing from 2003 to 2006 and the Minister for Educationfrom 2006 to 2007. until the defeat of the Liberal/National Coalition at the election held on 24 November 2007. Bishop is arepublican.[4] Bishop holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Adelaide, and was managing partner of the Perth office of Australian law firm, Clayton Utz, from 1994 to 1998.
Early life and career[edit]
Bishop was born in Lobethal, South Australia, growing up on a cherry farm in theAdelaide Hills.[5][6] She was educated at St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School and later at the University of Adelaide, where she studied law, graduating in 1978. She practised as a barrister and solicitor at the Adelaide law firm Mangan, Ey & Bishop, where she was a partner.
In 1983, Bishop relocated to Perth, Western Australia, where she practised as a commercial litigation solicitor at Clayton Utz (then known as Robinson Cox). While working at Clayton Utz, Bishop was part of the legal team which defended compensation claims against CSR by asbestos mining workers who had contracted mesothelioma as a result of their work for the company.[7][8] She became a partner of Clayton Utz in 1985.
Bishop became managing partner of the Perth office of Clayton Utz in 1994. In 1996, she attended Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts and completed the eight-week Advanced Management Program for Senior Managers. She has stated that it was at this course that she was inspired to give up her lucrative law career and enter Federal politics.[9][10]
Bishop chaired the Town Planning Appeal Tribunal of Western Australia, belonged to the Senate of Murdoch University, and was a director of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) and a director and fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. She has also served on the Council of Governors of the Lions Ear and Hearing Institute.[11]
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Member of Parliament[edit]
Bishop won preselection for the Liberal Party for the seat of Curtin, Western Australia, in 1998, and went on to win the seat at the federal election later that year, defeating the sitting member, Liberal turned independent Allan Rocher, who had held the seat since 1981.
Following the Liberals' February 2001 state election loss by Richard Court to Geoff Gallop, Bishop was mooted as a possible contender for leader of the state opposition.[11] Initially, Court announced that he would lead the Liberals into opposition. However, behind the scenes he was engineering a deal under which both he and his deputy leader and factional opponent,Colin Barnett, would resign from the state legislature. Bishop would have handed her comfortably safe federal seat to Barnett, entered the state parliament via a by-election in either Barnett or Court's comfortably safe state seats and succeeded Court as state Liberal leader.[12] The deal soon collapsed, however, when Bishop turned it down, declaring that the arrangement wasn't bizarre, but "innovative, different".[11] Court was forced to leave politics altogether, and Barnett took over as state opposition leader.
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§Minister in the Howard government[edit]
Bishop was appointed Minister for Ageing in 2003. She was later promoted to Minister for Education, Science and Training andMinister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women's Issues in the cabinet reshuffle on 24 January 2006 and served in those positions until the defeat of the Coalition government at the federal election held on 24 November 2007.
Bishop's education policies centred on the development of national education standards as well as performance-based pay for teachers.[13] On 13 April 2007, the Australian state governments expressed opposition to Bishop's policies, notably those relating to performance pay. In the 2007 budget, the federal government announced a $5b "endowment fund" for higher education, with the expressed goal of providing world-class tertiary institutions in Australia.[14]
Some of Bishop's comments, such as "the states have ideologically hijacked school syllabi and are wasting $180 million in unnecessary duplication", were criticised by teachers. An advance media kit for a 2006 speech claimed parts of the contemporary curriculum came "straight from Chairman Mao"; however, the reference was dropped from her speech.[15][16][17]
§Shadow ministry and deputy Liberal leader[edit]
Following the Coalition's loss at the 2007 election, Bishop was elected deputy leader of the Liberal Party under Brendan Nelsonon 29 November 2007. In a ballot of Liberal party room members, Bishop prevailed with 44 votes, one more than the combined total of her two competitors, Andrew Robb (25 votes) and Christopher Pyne (18 votes).[18] Nelson opted not to give National Party leader Warren Truss the post of Deputy Leader of the Opposition, instead giving it to Bishop. Bishop was also given the shadow portfolio of employment, business and workplace relations in the Nelson shadow cabinet.[19]
On 22 September 2008, Bishop was offered the role of Shadow Treasurer by Nelson's successor as Opposition Leader, Malcolm Turnbull, in his shadow cabinet,[20] making her the first woman to hold the portfolio of any major party at the federal level.[21] On 16 February 2009, she resigned from the position of Shadow Treasurer due to dissatisfaction within Liberal ranks over her performance. Bishop moved to foreign affairs while maintaining her position of Deputy Leader and the shadow treasury portfolio was taken over byJoe Hockey.[22] On 1 December 2009, Tony Abbott was elected leader after a leadership spill. Bishop retained the deputy role without being challenged for the position[23] and also retained her role as Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs in Abbott's shadow cabinet.[24]
In 2010, Bishop defended the suspected forgery of Australian passports by Mossad, saying that many countries practised the forging of passports for intelligence operations, including Australia.[25] The government attacked Bishop over the statements, saying she had "broken a long-standing convention" in not speculating about intelligence practices.[26][27] She later clarified her statement, saying, "I have no knowledge of any Australian authority forging any passports of any nation."[28]
Following the Coalition's narrow loss in the 2010 federal election, Bishop retained the roles of Deputy Leader and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and was given the added responsibility of Shadow Minister for Trade.[29]
This information is reprinted from site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Bishop
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