29th Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
In office 12 November 2013 – 2 August 2015
Deputy
Bruce Scott
Preceded by
Anna Burke
Succeeded by
Tony Smith
Minister for Aged Care
In office 21 October 1998 – 26 November 2001
Prime Minister
John Howard
Preceded by
Peter Staples
Succeeded by
Kevin Andrews
Minister for Defence Industry, Science and Personnel
In office 11 March 1996 – 21 October 1998
Prime Minister
John Howard
Preceded by
Gary Punch
Succeeded by
Warren Snowdon
Member of the Australian Parliament for Mackellar
In office 26 March 1994 – 9 May 2016
Preceded by
Jim Carlton
Succeeded by
Jason Falinski
Senator for New South Wales
In office 11 July 1987 – 24 February 1994
Preceded by
Sir John Carrick
Succeeded by
Bob Woods
Personal details
Born
Bronwyn Kathleen Setright
(1942-10-19) 19 October 1942 (age 81) North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Political party
Liberal
Spouse
Alan David Bishop (1966–1992, div.)
Residence
Newport, New South Wales[1]
Education
Cremorne Girls High School University of Sydney (no degree)
Occupation
Solicitor and Company Director[2]
Bronwyn Kathleen BishopAO (née Setright; born 19 October 1942) is an Australian former politician. She was a member of federal parliament for almost 30 years, the longest period of service by a woman. A member of the Liberal Party, she was a minister in the Howard government from 1996 to 2001 and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015.
Bishop was born in Sydney and worked as a lawyer before entering politics. She served as state president of the New South Wales Liberals from 1985 to 1987, and then won election to the Senate at the 1987 federal election. She became the state's second female senator and the first to be popularly elected. In 1994 Bishop switched to the House of Representatives, winning a by-election for the Division of Mackellar. She was a shadow minister under John Hewson, Alexander Downer, and John Howard.
In 1996 Bishop was appointed Minister for Defence Industry, Science and Personnel in the newly elected Howard government. She was made Minister for Aged Care in 1998, but lost her place in the ministry after the 2001 election. Bishop returned to the shadow ministry after the Liberal–National Coalition lost the 2007 election. In 2013, following the election of the Abbott government, she was elected Speaker of the House, becoming the first non-Labor woman to hold the post. She resigned in mid-2015 after being caught in the centre of a travel-expenses scandal, and was defeated for Liberal preselection at the 2016 election, ending her parliamentary career. As of 2019[update] she is a political commentator at Sky News Live.
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rather as "Speaker". This precedent was not followed by her successor BronwynBishop, who requested to be called "Madam Speaker". Burke also gained a reputation...
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the seat of Mackellar, defeating the incumbent member BronwynBishop. He was elected as Bishop's successor at the 2016 federal election. Falinski was re-elected...
of Mackellar as an independent candidate against the Liberal Party's BronwynBishop in a by-election in 1994 as the ALP did not field a candidate in that...
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