Julie Bishop
Julie Bishop | |
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Deputy Leader of the Opposition | |
Assumed office 3 December 2007 | |
Leader | Brendan Nelson Malcolm Turnbull Tony Abbott |
Preceded by | Julia Gillard |
Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs | |
Assumed office 16 February 2009 | |
Leader | Malcolm Turnbull Tony Abbott |
Preceded by | Helen Coonan |
Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party | |
Assumed office 29 November 2007 | |
Leader | Brendan Nelson Malcolm Turnbull Tony Abbott |
Preceded by | Peter Costello |
Shadow Treasurer of Australia | |
In office 22 September 2008 – 16 February 2009 | |
Leader | Malcolm Turnbull |
Preceded by | Malcolm Turnbull |
Succeeded by | Joe Hockey |
Minister for Education, Science and Training | |
In office 24 January 2006 – 3 December 2007 | |
Prime Minister | John Howard |
Preceded by | Brendan Nelson |
Succeeded by | Julia Gillard (Education) Kim Carr (Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) |
Member of the Australian Parliament for Curtin | |
Assumed office 3 October 1998 | |
Preceded by | Allan Rocher |
Majority | 13.57%[1] |
Personal details | |
Born | Lobethal, South Australia | 17 July 1956
Political party | Liberal Party |
Spouse | Neil Gillion (1983-1988)[2] |
Alma mater | University of Adelaide Harvard University |
Julie Isabel Bishop (born 17 July 1956) is an Australian politician and the current Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Australia. She holds this title as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.[3] She is the party's first female Deputy Leader and the third woman in Australian history to hold the title of Deputy Leader of the Opposition. She is currently the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Shadow Minister for Trade.
She has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1998, representing the seat of Curtin in Western Australia. She was a minister in the Howard government until the defeat of the Liberal/National Coalition at the election held on 24 November 2007. On 27 November 2007, she announced she was running for the position of Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party. She won the ballot on 29 November 2007 and became the party's first female Deputy Leader.
Biography
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Julie Bishop was born in Lobethal, South Australia, and was educated at St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School and the University of Adelaide. She graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Laws in 1978, and subsequently practised as a barrister and solicitor at the Adelaide law firm Mangan, Ey & Bishop, where she was a partner. In 1983 Bishop married property developer Neil Gillion; however, they divorced five years later.[4] She later had a relationship with Liberal state MP and Senator Ross Lightfoot. She is now in a relationship with Peter Nattrass, former Lord Mayor of Perth.[5]
After getting married Bishop relocated to Perth, where she practised as a commercial litigation solicitor at Robinson Cox (now Clayton Utz). She became a partner of Clayton Utz in 1985, and managing partner of the Perth office in 1994. In 1996 she attended Harvard Business School in Boston and completed the eight-week Advanced Management Program for Senior Managers.[6]
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.[7]
Member of Parliament
Bishop won pre-selection 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 and 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 the leader of the state opposition.[7] Initially Court had announced that he would stay on as opposition leader, However, behind the scenes he was engineering a deal under which Bishop would have handed her comfortably safe federal seat to Court's factional opponent Colin Barnett, enter the state parliament via a by-election in either Barnett or Court's comfortably safe state seats and succeed Court as state Liberal leader.[8] The deal soon collapsed, however, when Bishop turned it down, declaring that the arrangement wasn't bizarre, but "innovative, different".[7] Court was forced to leave politics altogether, and Barnett took over as state opposition leader.
Minister in the Howard Government
Bishop was appointed Minister for Ageing in 2003. She was later promoted to Minister for Education, Science and Training and Minister 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.[9] 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 an express goal of providing world-class tertiary institutions in Australia.[10]
Some of Bishop's comments, such as "the states have ideologically hijacked school syllabi and are wasting $180 million in unnecessary duplication", have been criticised by teachers. An advance media kit for a recent speech claimed parts of the present curriculum came "straight from Chairman Mao"; however, the reference was dropped from her speech.[11][12][13]
Shadow Ministry and Deputy Liberal Leader
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Following the Coalition's loss at the 2007 election, Bishop was elected deputy leader of the Liberal Party under Brendan Nelson on 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).[14] On 22 September, Bishop was offered the role of Shadow Treasurer by Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull, making her the first woman to hold the portfolio of any major party at the federal level. On 16 February 2009, she resigned from the position of Shadow Treasurer, due to dissatisfaction within Liberal ranks over her performance.[15] Bishop moved to Foreign Affairs while maintaining her position of Deputy Leader; the shadow treasury portfolio was taken over by Joe Hockey.[16] On 1 December 2009, Tony Abbott was elected leader. Bishop retained the deputy role.[17]
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.[18] The government attacked Bishop over the statements, saying she had "broken a long-standing convention" in not speculating about intelligence practices.[19][20] She later clarified her statement, saying, "I have no knowledge of any Australian authority forging any passports of any nation."[21]
Bishop retained the role of Deputy Leader without challenge following the Coalition's narrow loss in the 2010 federal election,[22] and retained the portfolios of Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Shadow Minister for Trade.[23]
References
- ^ "House of Representatives Division First Preferences". Results.aec.gov.au. 17 December 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Nelson wins Liberal leadership". The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 November 2007. Retrieved 29 November 2007.
- ^ Mark Davis (11 October 2003). "True blue to her boots". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
- ^ http://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/perth-confidential/power-and-the-fashion/story-e6frg30u-1111114162157
- ^ http://www.exed.hbs.edu/programs/amp/Pages/default.aspx
- ^ a b c Michelle Grattan (11 October 2003). "New kid on the block". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved 28 November 2007.
- ^ "New WA Liberals leader takes on divided party (transcript)". 7:30 Report. 26 February 2001. Retrieved 28 November 2007.
- ^ "Rudd revolution will take more than rhetoric – Opinion –". Smh.com.au. 30 January 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
- ^ "Hon Julie Bishop MP – Budget 2007–08 Media Releases". Dest.gov.au. 8 May 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
- ^ "Thatcher v Mao – what a week for ideology". Opinion. Melbourne. 7 October 2006. Retrieved 6 May 2007.
Lead: The latest shots in the culture wars were fired this week in a skirmish that has all the hallmarks of a carefully planned political campaign aimed at jolting Australians out of their complacency.
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(help) - ^ Justine Ferrari (6 October 2006). "Canberra to seize syllabus from states". Education. The Australian. Retrieved 6 May 2007.
Education Minister Julie Bishop will attack state education bureaucrats and accuse them of hijacking school curriculums, distorting them with "Chairman Mao" type ideologies in a speech to the History Teachers Association of Australia today.
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(help) - ^ Michael Turtle (13 April 2007). "States reject performance pay for teachers". PM program. ABC (Radio National). Retrieved 6 May 2007.
Julie Bishop took in an ambitious plan for national standards in schooling, but none of her proposals were accepted in their original form.
- ^ Nelson sinks Turnbull, The Age, 29 November 2007.
- ^ "Bishop quits as shadow treasurer". The Sydney Morning Herald. 16 February 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2009.
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(help) - ^ Coorey, Phillip (16 February 2009). "Bishop to quit as shadow treasurer: SMH 16/2/2009". Smh.com.au. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
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- ^ 26 May 2010 12:00AM (26 May 2010). "Liberal Deputy Julie Bishop 'jeopardising' security over passport claim". Herald Sun. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ First the Israelis, now Julie Bishop's under attack over faked passport scandal, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 May 2010
- ^ Lester, Tim (25 May 2010). "Australia forges passports too, says Bishop". Smh.com.au. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
- ^ Grattan, Michelle; Lester, Tim; Koutsoukis, Jason (26 May 2010). "Passport gaffe trips Liberals' deputy leader". The Age. Melbourne.
- ^ Shanahan, Denis (10 September 2010). "Coalition minimises portfolio changes: PerthNow". Retrieved 10 September 2010.
- ^ http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/parl/43/Shadow/index.htm
External links
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- Personal website
- Search or browse Hansard for Julie Bishop at OpenAustralia.org
- Official page at the Parliament of Australia site
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- 1956 births
- Fellows of the Australian Institute of Management
- Harvard Business School alumni
- Living people
- Liberal Party of Australia politicians
- Members of the Australian House of Representatives
- Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Curtin
- Members of the Cabinet of Australia
- University of Adelaide alumni
- West Coast Eagles administrators
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