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Flat White

Pawns take Bishop

21 February 2019

7:45 PM

21 February 2019

7:45 PM

Julie Bishop has pulled the plug on her political career. The effusion of love in the House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon, and from Liberal MPs rushing to eulogise her on Facebook and Twitter was inversely proportional to the level of support Bishop won in the Liberal party room on that fateful day last August when Scott Morrison barged past her to take the prime ministership.

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