As Julie Bishop prepares to leave politics, the MP reflects on her 20-year political career that — at one time — saw her as the only woman sitting around an all-male Cabinet table.
Add to that the adversarial and"rough and tumble" nature of politics and of Canberra.
"When I first started, the behaviour in the chamber was a lot better and it was the behaviour outside in the corridors and in people's offices that was confronting," she said."We cop it the worst as women — there's a specific gendered nature to it. Let me be very clear about that." "It's extraordinary that in this day and age, we have to have physical voting, you have to be physically present to vote," she said.
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