Julie Bishop 'owns' the press club.

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^Onward and upward, women of the world!

It's the all new modern woman triple shift: That's right, now you too can spend an additional 23 hours a week making yourself feel attractive enough to gain the male approval necessary to succeed�on top of your underpaid, unstable employment and your entirely unaccounted for home responsibilities!

Just think: It all started with big dreams somewhere back in the 1960s! Viva la revolution!

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I quite like that kaftan but I'm not really a pattern person.

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I'm going to eat your children!

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Shaun Micaleff on Bishop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fh9xZ1G9jA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq1o-isGHw4

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You're all misogynist.

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I'd be keen for an itemised list of what went with the 4.5B of foreign aid cuts (particularly involving moderate Muslim communities), and what she's doing about the dangerously inflamed relations with our most important neighbour, Indonesia. The question is not whether that relationship has quietened down for now, but whether under random unfavourable conditions when it flares up again what she has put in place to manage it.

Then, I'd like to know where the boat people who were towed away are today, or whether like a cowardly Pontius Pilate she's going to wash her hands of them like her sickly party. And then, I want to know whether Australia would honour the Refugee Convention should there be a massive catastrophe or people movement in the region, or if she would turn a blind eye for political gain like many in the years preceding the signing of the Refugee Convention did.

Thereafter, I would like an explanation as to why she shopped refugees around to poor nations like nuclear refuse, wasting national goodwill by horrifically trying to pay Cambodia's notoriously corrupt officials to take them, shaming and embarrassing all concerned.

If she's a more mature human being than Gillard�as she has so loudly and publically proclaimed�then when is she going to reverse the disgraceful offshore towing and dumping of refugees that Gillard, like other insipid ALP types before her, all but pathetically acquiesced to? That's the only human test that can justify Bishop's grandiose claims. C'mon, Julie; you're either a better person than Gillard, as you claim, or you're just better at fraternising with and fawning over billionaires, getting all of the free PR coverage that corruptly earns you.

Once those topics are dealt with, I would like to know what she and her ministry are doing to tackle the now critical issue of Australia's declining revenue base. Australia, like much of the world, urgently needs international efforts to stop global parasites from extracting wealth and revenues without paying due taxes. Or, is she in fact spending most of her time facilitating quite the opposite through divisive, Machiavellian bilateral agreements that help elite wealth pay less tax?

Is she going to make her billionaire buddies pay their dues, or is she going to let Abbott and his cronies force poor and vulnerable children to suffer declining access at home and abroad to make up the lost revenue instead?

Beyond that, I would like to know what she is doing to give Australia independent manoeuvering room should the US elect a fruit bat who does something as idiotic in the Asian region as that nation regularly does in other regions.

Come on, FIGJAM Julie, get to work and show us why you rate yourself so highly.

Thus far, all I see is a performing one-woman public relations campaign sponsored by Australia's vulgar billionaire class, donating the powers and responsibilities of her office to the equivalent of riding around in a clown suit on a unicycle tooting a horn to divert attention away from creepy 1950s R.E. instructor, Tony Abbott.