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Building the Education Revolution Rorts - Bronwyn Bishop MP BronwynBishopMP 1,088 views Bronwyn Bishop MP questions the extent of rorts in the Building the Education Revolution in her electorate of Mackellar to Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the Minister...
Migration Amendment (Abolishing Detention Debt) - Bronwyn Bishop MP BronwynBishopMP 225 views Bronwyn Bishop MP speaking against the Migration Amendment (Abolishing Detention Debt) on Thursday, 25th June 2009.
Bronwyn Bishop MP vs Julia Gillard MP BronwynBishopMP 25,172 views Bronwyn Bishop MP brings down the House in Parliament by upstaging Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard MP during Question Time on Thursday, 26th November 2009.
Defending Senior Australians - Part 2 of 2 - Bronwyn Bishop MP BronwynBishopMP 96 views Bronwyn Bishop MP defends Senior Australians from attacks by the Rudd Government after the publication of the Intergenerational Report during Matters of Public Importance (...
Defending Senior Australians - Part 1 of 2 - Bronwyn Bishop MP BronwynBishopMP 360 views Bronwyn Bishop MP defends Senior Australians from attacks by the Rudd Government after the publication of the Intergenerational Report during Matters of Public Importance (...
Bronwyn Bishop MP vs Hon Kate Ellis MP, Minister for Youth & Sport BronwynBishopMP 2,811 views Bronwyn Bishop MP requests Minister Ellis to table the "fairy tale" she was reading from on Thursday, 20th August 2009
Bronwyn Bishop MP vs Treasurer Wayne Swan MP BronwynBishopMP 2,602 views Bronwyn Bishop MP brings Treasurer Wayne Swan back into order on Tuesday, 16th March 2010 after he made "potty-mouthed" remarks in Parliament.
Bronwyn Bishop MP - Utegate Affair & Treasurer Wayne Swan BronwynBishopMP 445 views Bronwyn Bishop MP speaks in Parliament on Monday, 22nd June 2009 with regards to allegations that the Hon Wayne Swan MP, the Federal Treasurer misled Parliament over the Ut...
Liberal Leadership Ballot - Bronwyn Bishop MP - Sky News 1- 1st December 2009.wmv BronwynBishopMP 391 views Bronwyn Bishop's interview with Sky News Chief Political Reporter Kieran Gilbert on Tuesday, 1st December 2009 after the election of Tony Abbott MP as the new leader of the...
Liberal Leadership Ballot - Bronwyn Bishop MP - Sky News - 1st December 2009 BronwynBishopMP 435 views Bronwyn Bishop's interview with Sky News on Tuesday, 1st December 2009 prior to the leadership ballot for the leadership of the Federal Liberal Party.

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The Hon. Bronwyn Bishop MP

Federal Member for Mackellar
Shadow Minister for Seniors

Bronwyn Bishop began her political involvement with the Liberal Party while a law student at the University of Sydney. She joined Killara Young Liberals in 1961 and during her association with that branch, she became Vice President. She then went on become Chairman of the Liberal Party Convention Committee from 1981 to 1985, and State President of the NSW Division from 1985 to 1987.

Mrs Bishop was elected to the Senate in 1987. Within eighteen months of her election, she was appointed Shadow Minister for Public Administration, Federal Affairs and Local Government. In 1994 Mrs Bishop was appointed Shadow Minister for Urban and Regional Strategy in May 1994, was appointed Shadow Minister for Health and in January 1995 she became Shadow Minister for Privatisation and Commonwealth/State Relations.

Mrs Bishop resigned from the Senate in February 1994 and was elected to the House of Representatives in March 1994 as the Member for Mackellar in a by-election and was re-elected to her Federal seat of Mackellar in the 1996, 1999, 2001, 2004 and 2007 general elections.

Following the election of the Howard Government in 1996, Bronwyn was appointed Minister for Defence Industry, Science and Personnel, where she pioneered a ground breaking Defence Industry Policy framework, a first for Australia. It remains government policy, even today.

After the governments re-election in 1998, Bronwyn was appointed Minister for Aged Care where she brought a broad and progressive view to the needs of Australia's ageing population. Bronwyn again led the way by introducing mandatory national statndards for aged care providers ensuring that standards were lifted and maintained.

Since the last election, Bronwyn was honoured to have been appointed as Shadow Minister for Veterans Affairs unitl late 2008, a portfolio that she embraced with great energy and vigor.

In late 2009, recognising that senior Australians are a wealth of knowledge and experience with ideas and solutions to shape our nations' future, Tony Abbott appointed Bronwyn to be Australia's first Shadow Minister for Seniors.

Bronwyn has held a number of other leadship positions within the Parliament including Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family and Human Services from 2004 to 2007, where she had completed a number of parliamentary inquiries, including into family work balance, effects of illicit drugs on families and finally into overseas adoptions. She also served as Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal & Constitutional Affairs from2001to 2004, where again she chaired a number of inquiries.

In addition she has also been Chairman of the Opposition Trade, Trade Negotiations, Customs and Privatisation Committee; Secretary of the Coalitions Economics and Business Taskforce; Chairman of the Australian Flag Taskforce. She was Deputy Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances, leading the Australian delegation to the 3rd Commonwealth Conference on Delegated Legislation in 1989. Mrs Bishop also served as a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade.

In the time she has been in Parliament, Mrs Bishop has managed to establish a reputation as one journalist writing in the Sydney Morning Herald wrote an indefatigable and formidable advocate.

Her contribution to ensuring accountability by the Executive and the bureaucracy has been recognised through work on Senate Estimates Committees and Joint Parliamentary Committee of Public Accounts.

She has represented the Liberal Party at meetings of the International Democrat Union including the four biennial Party Leaders meetings in Berlin, Tokyo, Madrid & Seoul and she has previously served as Deputy Chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union.

Her interest in the Pacific Basin goes back more than two decades, and she has been a member of the Australian Committee of the Pacific Basin Economic Council since 1982.

Mrs Bishop maintains her involvement in professional and community interests by her membership of legal, cultural, charity, womens community and sporting committees.

She is also a solicitor and mother of two daughters and a grandmother of one grandaughter.

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Dee Why, Sydney NSW

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Australia

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Federal Member for Mackellar & Shadow Minister for Seniors

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