The MP who disclosed his girlfriend on the register of interests as a potential conflict is "bewildered" by Julie Bishop's insistence on avoiding scrutiny of her boyfriend.

Key points:

• Reports highlight Julie Bishop has claimed tens of thousands in travel entitlements for David Panton
• Ms Bishop argues Mr Panton is entitled to travel because he is her "nominated person"
• Labor says Ms Bishop is walking a "very fine line"

 

David Panton, reported variously as a pharmacist, winemaker and property developer, has accompanied the Foreign Minister at functions she attended in an official capacity, including on the floor of the United Nations.

Reports this week highlighted how Ms Bishop had claimed tens of thousands in travel entitlements for Mr Panton in the past three years.

Yet Ms Bishop argues Mr Panton is entitled to travel because he is her "nominated person".

She has told triple j she is "absolutely, 100 per cent compliant with the rules".

When asked whether her circumstances passed the "pub test", she was adamant she had done nothing wrong.

"These are the rules that apply to all members of parliament, and I comply with them," she said.

"That's the test that members have to meet in relation to the Register of Interests and appropriate declarations, and I've made them."

 

Read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-01/julie-bishops-partner-should-decla...

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See: https://www.smh.com.au/national/julie-bishop-in-expenses-spotlight

Some cartoonists are more polite than Gus Leonisky. Considering the rort that David Panton and Julie Bishop represents, I did not hesitate to go the full monty... See toon at top.

Luckily for them, Julie Bishop and Barnaby Joyce don’t have to explain their love lives to Centrelink.

Luckily, because as members of Australia’s political class they get to deal with much more accommodating regulators than do Australia’s welfare recipients.

Bishop’s “friend”, as she coyly described him when their relationship was new back in 2014, is David Panton, variously described in media articles as a winemaker and property developer.

Bishop keeps her friend close. The pair has posed for photographs at the Rio Olympics, on the floor of the United Nations, at a polo tournament in Portsea, at the Melbourne Cup, at Canberra’s Midwinter Ball.

Clearly, they are more than friends. In fact, when it comes to Bishop’s use of her travel entitlement, he is “family”. According to figures from the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority, Panton has cost the taxpayer some $32,000 since 2015.

But while he is “family” when it comes to claiming taxpayer-funded travel, he is not when it comes to parliament’s register of members’ interests.

WHY NOT REQUIRE MALCOLM TURNBULL TO SIGN A DOCUMENT CLARIFYING THE STATUS OF JULIE BISHOP’S RELATIONSHIP? JUST TICK A BOX, MALCOLM: IS THE MINISTER SINGLE OR PARTNERED?

 

Read more:https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2018/04/28/judging-politics-centrelinks-rules/

 

Answer: A dildo is a sex toy, often explicitly phallic in appearance, intended for sexual penetration or other sexual activity during masturbation or with sex partners. 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dildo

 

See toon at top. Dildos always travel at government expense. 

 

 

 

 

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has warned Beijing against militarising the South China Sea following reports that China has installed missile systems in the Spratley Islands for the first time.

Key points:

• China reportedly installed anti-ship cruise missiles and surface-to-air missiles in South China Sea
• The White House said it had raised its concerns directly with Beijing
• Multiple countries have competing claims in the South China Sea

 

US news network CNBC reported yesterday that China had installed anti-ship cruise missiles and surface-to-air missile systems on three outposts in the South China Sea, citing sources with direct knowledge of US intelligence.

Ms Bishop would not say if the Australian Government had intelligence confirming that — but said if the reports were accurate, then the Government would be worried.

 

Read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-04/us-warns-china-after-new-missiles-...

 

And please ABC, stop using that word "multiple" instead of "several". It's ignoramus plus.

Julie Bishop has hit back at former Australian ambassador to China Geoff Raby, who penned a damning opinion piece overnight claiming that relations with Beijing can only improve with the Foreign Minister's sacking.

Key points:

• Geoff Raby slammed Julie Bishop saying Australia's foreign policy is missing in action
• PM Malcolm Turnbull said the article is "utterly wrong" and disappointing
• Ms Bishop appeared to question China's leadership abilities last year

 

In the piece, Mr Raby slams Ms Bishop for not having visited China in more than two years while angering Beijing with "strident public comments on the South China Sea" and an "utterly bizarre" 2017 speech that he maintains questioned Beijing's regional leadership.

"It is a profoundly ignorant and ill-informed analysis of the China-Australia relationship," Ms Bishop told the ABC in a statement.

 

Read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-15/fmr-china-ambassador-says-julie-bi...

 

I would be of the same learned opinion as former Australian ambassador to China, Geoff Raby, considering the Aussie government use the carbon copy it scavenges in the US paper bins of the White House... Julie Bishop of course knows more about dim-sins than my many local Chinese "westowants"... pun intended...

Ms Bishop appeared to question China's leadership abilities last year??? Bloody hell. That a bit dumb for a government — of which she is a free wheeling cog — that can't properly handle more than a quarter of 23 million people on a highly resourced rich land, when the Chinese Leadership manages 1.5 billion people quite successfully...

 

Australia weighs stricter Russia sanctions - News.com.au

21 hours ago - Australia is weighing up whether to impose stricter sanctions against ... Foreign Minister Julie Bishop was on Thursday asked if Australia would follow suit. ... attack on Salisbury Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March.
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I heard our Julie pontificate with gravitas on radio, as if the Skripal's was an open and shut case — with evidence that the Russians tried to kill the Skripals with their notorious poison... thus Australia should blahblah blah sanctions against Russia... blah blah blah support US on this... blah blah blah...

Yeah, our Julie knows where her bread is lubricated. 

It's all shit of course. The Skripal poisoning case has no evidence of Russia's hands, nor were the Skripals poisoned by a "notorious Russian poison" — otherwise they would be both dead and smelly like the rats in my attic. Inspector Clouseau would do a better job at finding the "truth" than the entire MI5 and MI6 and CIA teams put together. But then the "evidences" point to the STRONG possibility that this was a made up story by MI5 (or whatever number you wish to assign to this disinformation service) in order to embarrass Russia and "impose yet more sanctions" by letting the media run with the fake news about the Skripals. How do I know this was fabricated fake news? You don't need to know... but some other people know:



The US State Department decision to blame Russia for the poisoning of Sergei Skripal without any evidence amounts to “flicking matches in a gasoline-filled room,” former US diplomat Jim Jatras told RT.

 

The announcement of sanctions on Wednesday came despite the fact that the US is entirely aware that Russia was not responsible for the poisoning of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, UK in March, he said.

 

Read more:

https://www.rt.com/news/435549-us-sanctions-russia-trump/

 

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• Peter Dutton quit Cabinet and isn't ruling out a second challenge for Malcolm Turnbull's leadership
• Another three Cabinet ministers and six frontbenchers who supported Mr Dutton offered their resignations last night
• The ABC understands Mr Turnbull only accepted Mr Dutton's resignation and one other
• "A number" of those ministers have agreed to stay on and support Mr Turnbull as PM

 

 

http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/31500

 

Will "she" serve under yet another leader?... Read from top...

 

 

Julie Bishop gleams, so polished she seems to have a reflective surface. Reflective surfaces are like a shield in politics; they are handy things to stow yourself behind.

Bishop appeared in the chamber just before question time, walking in with Scott Morrison. She was dressed in white, an eventuality of absolutely no note at all, except Bishop periodically deploys costume for effect, and it can be observed (and was) that white is the colour of the suffragette movement, the colour worn by political women in America earlier this month to Donald Trump’s state of the union address.

Australia’s former foreign minister, the perennial deputy who forgot her place, briefly, last year, rashly running for Liberal leader, imagining her popularity and experience and external respect an asset for a political party seemingly intent on a death spiral before being trampled by the Blokes Who Knew Better – settled herself in the chamber for question time.

As the session, a grinding one, full of the snarling hostility of the final weeks of the 45th parliament, drew to a close, the word went out: Julie had something to say after question time.

 

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/21/julie-bishop-firs...

 

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Today, in a milder Terrorgraph than usual, Miranda Devine pans Tanya Plibersek for not getting up and for not applauding Julie — who was dressed in immaculate white sleeveless attire — on the day of her exit from Parliament. Good on you, Tanya... The superlative adjectives given to Julie Bishop by the media are a wonderment of crap  — as if Julie had been Maid Marian (Marion) herself...

 

Maid Marion (Marian) was the love interest of Robin Hood. She is typically portrayed as beautiful, confident, and sincere in her love of Robin Hood. A noblewoman or a commoner, we never know. She is an admirable woman. Marian's independence and relative equality to her lover, makes her one of the strong female characters in English literature.

 

I have news for you. The Liberal (CONservative) Party is NO ROBIN HOOD. The merry men of the Liberal (CONservative) Party are a bunch of thieves, robber barons, kings of debauchery who line their pockets instead of giving to the poor. And Maid Marion (Marian) — aka Julie Bishop — was hitched to the Duke of Nottingham, whoever he was, from Tony Abbott to that doctor Brendan, from Malcolm to Scummo. It was when she got the boot in her backside from the ruthless manly men she loved that Julie decided to quit the Kanbra "muppet show". 

So why was Julie "booted"? As long as she espoused the rotten ideas of the Liberal (CONservative) Party whichever these hypocritical ideas were at the time, she was like the eternal dancer/sidekick to the star of the show, whomever HE was — to distract us from the rotten smell and ugly appearance, with her beauty and steely eyes: look at me... don't look at him... he's about to steal your wallet. Yes "our" Julie was dancing with the application of a mirrored-selfie, WITHOUT A SINGLE ORIGINAL IDEA HERSELF. Suddenly she decided to take on the boys and claimed she could give that rabble lot of losing CONservative bandits/gangsters a bit of class to lead them to victory at the next battle: the elections — like a modern Joan of Arc, which she was not either. 

Boot. Julie was relegated to washing the dishes on the backbench. 

 

We wish her good luck and she might marry her beau (read from top).

 

And Tanya, good for you. You managed to show the truth, at least till the time that, urged by one of your weaker colleagues, you reluctantly applauded the eternal whiter than white sidekick...

 

It was Julie Bishop’s farewell. She was Australia’s first female Foreign Minister but what were her achievements in the role?

Cosying up to Saudi Arabia and its war crimes in Yemen? Keeping our lapdogs in Nauru and Papua New Guinea well fed? Downplaying on the global stage the reality of the offshore concentration camps Australia runs on Manus Island and Nauru? Continuing to support the murderous invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq with Australian troops?

She was also, according to the patronising and patriarchal Prime Minister, borrowing from the Bible, a "good and faithful servant". I would add, she was a good and faithful servant of the Liberal Party and the 1% it represents.

Yet her good service to her Party and class did not benefit working-class women. Nor did it win her the top job. She won just 11 votes in the first round of the contest for Liberal Party leadership in August last year. Why is that?

Read more:

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/julie-bishop-...

 

Great cartoon there. Mark David is reaching new heights...:

 

 

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 August 5 2021…

 

Former foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop has admitted toeing the Coalition’s party line on gender and merit while she was the only woman in Tony Abbott’s cabinet, even as qualified women were excluded from the most powerful political grouping in the nation.

Ms Bishop makes the comments on ABC TV’s Ms Represented, which begins airing Tuesday next week. Howard government immigration minister Amanda Vanstone describes Mr Abbott as ‘‘probably a misogynist’’ but suggests that wasn’t a factor for why he spoke at a rally attacking then prime minister Julia Gillard’s emissions policy in front of signs branding her a ‘‘witch’’ and a ‘‘bitch’’.

‘‘He’s not sort of a new age man, let’s put it that way,’’ said Ms Vanstone, who is now a columnist for the Herald.

‘‘But I don’t think he’s set that [situation] up. He’s just the guy who is there at the time.’’

Ms Bishop gained the position in Tony Abbott’s cabinet when she was elected deputy leader of the Liberal Party and could select her own role. The lack of other women disappointed Mr Abbott, he said at the time, but there were ‘‘very good and talented women knocking on the door’’. Ms Bishop did not criticise the process at the time.

Asked by host Annabel Crabb what she had been thinking, Ms Bishop was candid.

‘‘Don’t slip up, keep a straight face, and keep saying that we choose our ministers on merit knowing that there were a number of very competent women who didn’t have the opportunity to serve at that time because they hadn’t been chosen,’’ she said.

 

Read more at the SMH...

 

Not only La Madam Bishop toed (or towed?) the line with Turdy Abbott, she has now her own line of Barbie Dolls... How stupid is she? Read from top. Sorry I don't mean to say stupid without mentioning that most (not all) CONservatives in Australia — Liberal party of Scomo and Nationals now led by Tomato Joyce — are stupid, dishonest and devious, but extremely charitable ("charity before social justice"). 

 

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