Julie Isabel Bishop was born on 17 July 1956 and is an Australian former politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2018 and deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 2007 to 2018.
59 Facts About Julie Bishop
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Julie Bishop was the Member of Parliament for Curtin from 1998 to 2019.
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Julie Bishop has been the chancellor of the Australian National University since January 2020.
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Julie Bishop was a delegate to the 1998 constitutional convention, and served as a director of the Special Broadcasting Service and as a member of the Murdoch University senate.
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Julie Bishop was elected to parliament at the 1998 federal election, representing the Division of Curtin in Perth's western suburbs.
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Julie Bishop was the first woman to hold the position, and was re-elected to the post at multiple leadership spills following her initial election.
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Turnbull defeated Dutton in a leadership ballot, but tensions continued to mount and the party voted in favour of holding a second spill; Julie Bishop chose to be a candidate.
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Julie Bishop declined to retain the foreign affairs portfolio in the Morrison Ministry, instead moving to the backbench.
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Julie Bishop retired from politics on 11 April 2019, before the impending federal election.
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On 1 January 2020, Julie Bishop commenced her term as chancellor of the Australian National University.
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Julie Bishop is the first woman to be in this position.
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Julie Bishop was born on 17 July 1956 in Lobethal, South Australia.
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Julie Bishop is the third of four children born to Isabel Mary and Douglas Alan Bishop; she has two older sisters and a younger brother.
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Julie Bishop's father was a returned soldier and orchardist, while her mother's family were sheep and wheat farmers.
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Julie Bishop grew up on an apple and cherry orchard in Basket Range.
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Julie Bishop began her education at Basket Range Primary School and later attended St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School in Adelaide.
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Julie Bishop was the head prefect in her final year.
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Julie Bishop went on to study law at the University of Adelaide.
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Julie Bishop graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1978.
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Julie Bishop left after less than a year, in part due to an incident where a senior partner asked her to perform waitressing duties.
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Julie Bishop was part of the team assigned to the case, which developed an argument that a company was not legally responsible for the actions of its subsidiaries.
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Julie Bishop has said she conducted herself ethically and professionally, and per procedural advice given by barristers Robert French and David Malcolm.
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In 1996, Julie Bishop attended Harvard Business School for eight weeks to complete the Advanced Management Programme for senior managers.
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Julie Bishop has credited one of her lecturers there, George C Lodge, with inspiring her to enter public life.
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Julie Bishop has credited the WA Inc scandal with making her think she "did not ever want to see a Labor government elected again".
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Julie Bishop was chosen as the president of the Liberal party's CBD branch the year she joined the party, serving until 1997.
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Julie Bishop was a "minimalist republican", and voted against the final model because she considered it too radical and unlikely to succeed at a referendum.
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Julie Bishop would resign from federal Parliament and hand her seat to Barnett, and Court would hand the leadership of the WA Liberals to Julie Bishop once she was safely in the state legislature by way of winning either Court or Barnett's old seats, both of which were within Curtin's boundaries and were comfortably safe for the Liberals.
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Julie Bishop was appointed Minister for Ageing by Prime Minister John Howard in 2003.
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Julie Bishop was later promoted to Minister for Education and Science and Minister for Women in 2006 and served in those positions until the defeat of the Howard government at the 2007 federal election.
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On 22 September 2008, Julie Bishop was promoted to the role of Shadow Treasurer by Nelson's successor as Opposition Leader, Malcolm Turnbull, making her the first woman to hold that portfolio.
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Julie Bishop was instead given the job of Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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In 2010, Julie Bishop defended the suspected forgery of Australian passports by Mossad, saying that many countries practised the forging of passports for intelligence operations, including Australia.
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Julie Bishop became the only female member of the cabinet and was given the third-highest rank, after Abbott and Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss.
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In December 2014, Julie Bishop became only the second woman to serve as acting prime minister, after Julia Gillard.
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Subsequently, Julie Bishop announced substantial expenditure cuts in the aid program.
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Months after the Abbott government took office, Julie Bishop announced the implementation of a New Colombo Plan which would provide undergraduate students with funding to study in several different locations within the Indo-Pacific.
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On 28 May 2015, Julie Bishop told Parliament that the letter was provided to a review of the siege, before correcting the record three days later.
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Julie Bishop negotiated a successful resolution that was adopted by the Council in regards to gaining full access to the crash site of Flight MH17.
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Later, Julie Bishop led negotiations to pass a resolution to set up an independent criminal tribunal into the downing of Flight MH17.
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Julie Bishop was the first Australian government minister to visit the country since 2003, having been personally invited by Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif.
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Julie Bishop wore a headscarf or a hat for the duration of her visit, and did not shake hands with male dignitaries in order to avoid offending local sensibilities.
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Julie Bishop received some criticism for doing so, with Andrew Bolt rhetorically asking whether she should have "subjugated herself" to Islamic law.
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In early September 2017, as the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar became ethnic cleansing, Julie Bishop said that Australia was deeply concerned by the escalating violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State and would provide up to to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
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Julie Bishop was involved at the highest level of negotiations with the Indonesian Government in attempts to save the lives of convicted drug smugglers Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.
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Julie Bishop called on Malcolm Turnbull to "replace the Foreign Minister with someone better equipped for the demands of the job".
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On 26 August 2018, Julie Bishop issued a statement indicating that she would resign as Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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Hours before Turnbull's challenge, Julie Bishop had visited Abbott to advise him he had lost the confidence of the Parliamentary Liberal Party.
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Julie Bishop is said to have intended to vote for Abbott in the leadership vote until he declared her position vacant as well as his, after which she voted for Turnbull.
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Julie Bishop was retained as Foreign Minister following the formation of the Turnbull government.
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The deputy leadership was declared vacant, with Julie Bishop re-elected as deputy leader unopposed.
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Julie Bishop is the first woman to formally stand for the leadership of the Liberal Party, and only the second woman to stand for the leadership of one of Australia's two major parties, after the Labor Party's Julia Gillard.
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Julie Bishop is regarded as a being a moderate within the Liberal Party, and has been described as holding similar views to Malcolm Turnbull.
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Julie Bishop is in favour of an Australian republic, having served as a delegate at the Constitutional Convention of 1998.
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Later that month Julie Bishop joined luxury Australian department store David Jones in a brand ambassador role.
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Shortly afterwards, it was reported in The Australian Financial Review that as part of Julie Bishop's consulting activities with Greensill Capital in early 2020, she had attended meetings in Davos in Switzerland organised by Lex Greensill.
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Cormann, who in March 2021 was elected as Secretary-General of the OECD, is reported to have said that he was asked by Julie Bishop to meet with Lex Greensill and David Cameron.
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Julie Bishop was married to property developer Neil Gillon from 1983 to 1988, taking his surname for the duration of the marriage.
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Julie Bishop was in a relationship with businessman David Panton from 2014 to 2022.