She lost me when she knifed Abbott in the back. A loyal deputy she most certainly not.

About the highest praise I could give her is she is a good cloths horse.

Foxy your thread may well be of far better use than you or any one ever thought
See at the time of her standing for PM she, by far, was the most popular person in her party
No true, polling exists
Here we see pure hate dislike venom used against her
That HIGHLIGHTS the Liberals and SOME who support them have a very real problem with women
The election will confirm treating women as lessor people is unwise they vote and are half of the vote

I've always had the feeling she was merely a mediocre actress with a poorly written script in a play about a lost plot !

individual,

I'm going to steal those lines!!

When it is all boiled down, the old boiler, Bishop, was just another stooge and mediocre servant of the the left of the Liberal party. She was told what to do, and she did it with absolutely no distinction. To be fair, she was just like most most politicians, totally lacking personality and personal ability: a soon-to-be-forgotten hack,forced, at last, to take her snout of the open public trough into the shady world of fabulous superannuation, perks and the usual jobs for no longer wanted time servers. Maybe a ghost-written tell-all book, and a short time in the media spotlight until she disappears from our ken, just like 99.9% of short-lived public figures who have contributed very little to anything but their own bank balances. She didn't make it to the top, so she won't be periodically resurrected by the media - she will just be another forgetable stain on our political history.

Dear Belly,

Julie Bishop's record is of substance that most
Members of Parliament can't boast about. At the
last leadership challenge the Liberals fought
out the Prime Ministership between two men who
when compared to Julie Bishop (the first woman to
contest a leadership ballot in the party's history),
had limited respect, recognition, and authority.

Julie Bishop's performance has been tested - she has had
a significant role over 21 years as a MP and she was an
important presence before she became Australia's first
female Foreign Minister staying there for 5 years
and 155 days.
Over the past 30 years only Labor's Gareth Evans and
Liberal Alexander Downer have held the job longer.
She was a Coalition Frontbencher from 2003 to
2007, a Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet Minister from 2006 to
last August. She survived during all the internal
Liberal ructions after the Coalition's 2007 loss - due in
large part to significant party backing.

She emerged untouched from Liberal power clashes. She was
Deputy Liberal Leader for 11 years all through the
post-Howard, Turnbull-Abbott-Turnbull years.

Her performance has been tested by major issues from
the shooting down of MH17 over Ukraine, the election of
Donald Trump, the growing tensions from an
expanding China. As stated earlier, she has pursued
all of her goals with determination and rigour and
achieved results.

Hopefully she will be offered a vital and important
position by the newly elected government. Her talent
should not be wasted. Australia needs her.