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Bronwyn Bishop

Australian politician
Also known as: Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop
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A.R.G. Griffiths
Associate Professor of History, Flinders University of South Australia. Author of Contemporary Australia and Beautiful Lies.
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Bronwyn Bishop (born October 19, 1942, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian Liberal Party politician who served in the federal Senate (1987–94) and House of Representatives (1994–2016); she was the speaker of the House from 2013 to 2015. Bishop was educated at the University of Sydney. She was admitted to practice law in 1967 and was elected 20 years later to represent New South Wales in the Senate, having decided early in her...

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