Here's a link that explains Julie Bishop's incredible
trailblazer career:

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-long-career-of-incredible-trailblazer-julie-bishop

She emerged untouched from Liberal power clashes.
Foxy,
a classic example of hypocrisy, connivery & fence-sitting ! If you can ess any integrity in this at all I'd like you to point it to us.

Dear Foxy,

Don't get me wrong. In comparison to the bulk of the twats in that very discredited, backward thinking, party of neanderthals Bishop did look good.

She resisted calls to move the embassy to Jerusalem, something Morrison quickly touted trying to win an election after she stepped down. She also was committed to maintaining Palestinian aid.

However that is really a poor position to judge her properly. There were parliamentary expenses which were highly questionable and she often acted in an entitled manner which I found particularly off putting.

"Julie Bishop ordered an empty VIP jet to fly from Canberra to Perth to collect her and her ­boyfriend from a charity dinner, The Daily Telegraph in Sydney ­reports today. The Foreign Minister and partner David Panton were the only passengers on the RAAF Challenger jet on the overnight flight back to Canberra on ­October 18."

And

"Julie Bishop claimed $32,000 in taxpayers’ money for “family” travel by her long-term partner but has not declared his financial interests because she claims he is not her spouse."

And

"Julie Bishop is the latest Turnbull government minister facing scrutiny over taxpayer-funded travel claims, amid growing calls for an overhaul of politicians' travel expenses. The Foreign Affairs Minister charged taxpayers $2716 to attend the Portsea Polo event on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula in January last year as a guest of beer maker Peroni and car company Jeep."

I understand why you hold her in high regard and the fact that I don't doesn't mean your or my reasons for doing so are invalid, it is just we have a different perspective.

"a classic example of hypocrisy, connivery & fence-sitting ! If you can ess any integrity in this at all I'd like you to point it to us".

An excellent summing up, individual! She was rat-cunning, a perfect example of the old shitehouse rat. She used the party, the electorate and everything and everyone she could for her own ends.

Dear Foxy,

I will add that to have served as a deputy to Abbott must have taken the kind of fortitude not many would have had. Trying to polish that turd must have taken an inordinate amount of diplomatic skill and perseverance. It should have been nigh on impossible for someone to be so tied to the worst prime minister this country has seen in modern times and yet come out of that dark period relatively unscathed.

Dear Steele,

Thank You for your comments regarding Julie Bishop.
I do see things somewhat differently but Thank You
for finding some common ground.

I honestly did not query her travel expenses in the past
because as far as I understand - she had been
invited to these events and attended them in her
official capacity as Minister of Foreign Affairs
and as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party,
along with her escort and partner. She also attended
various business meetings while in town. I'm sure
that as George Brandis explained at the time -
"She was well aware of the standards and is always
observant of them."

She stated that in attending the movie premiers -
"Ït does add a great deal to the economy and it will
raise our profile overseas as a sophisticated,
creative nation."

And Brandis further added," Ït may be the case that
she attended this particular event in the role she
assumed as Foreign Minister in advocating Australia's interests
including the promotion particularly in the US of the
Australian cinema and film industry."

I'm sure that the costs involved were far
outweighed by the benefits gained out of all this.