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Julie Bishop announces her retirement from politics

Macquarie National News
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Former Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has announced she’s quitting politics.

In parliament this afternoon Ms Bishop announced she will not re-contest her WA seat of Curtin at the next election.

After 20 years, the long-serving deputy Liberal leader leaves parliament as the government’s most experienced and high-profile woman.

She was Australia’s first ever female foreign minister.

“It has been an immense honour to be the longest serving Member for Curtin and also to be the deputy leader of the Liberal Party, the first female to hold the role for 11 years, over half my entire political career,” she told the Parliament.

“I am also proud of the fact that I am the first woman to contest a leadership ballot of the Liberal Party in its 75-year history.”

Ms Bishop’s retirement has been expected since she was defeated in the leadership ballot and moved to the backbench, when Malcolm Turnbull was ousted as leader.

Macquarie National News
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