Julie Bishop digs heels in over $25k shoes

by Elizabeth Minter | Jul 2, 2020 | Deceptive Conduct, Liberal Party, QED

Deceptive Conduct | Liberal Party | QED

Julie Bishop's shoes

Julie Bishop digs heels in over $25k shoes

March 2018

Former foreign minister Julie Bishop was given a pair of Jimmy Choo heels thought to be worth as much as $25,000. Although she declared the shoes on her parliamentary register of interests, the Daily Mail Australia reported that Ms Bishop breached rules requiring her to pay the difference for gifts exceeding $300.

Indigenous artist Peter Farmer said there were only a handful of the shoes with his designs on them in the world. Ms Bishop updated the register in March to say she had been given the shoes by Grand Master Lineage, a Chinese company linked to Mr Choo.

Ms Bishop’s shoes were not declared as over the allowable limit, according to her register of members’ interests. A spokeswoman for Ms Bishop told Daily Mail Australia that the MP had complied with the requirements.

What's a rort?

Conflicts of Interest

Redirecting funding to pet hobbies; offering jobs to the boys without a proper tender process; secretly bankrolling candidates in elections; taking up private sector jobs in apparent breach of parliament’s code of ethics, the list goes on.

Deceptive Conduct

Claiming that greenhouse gas emissions have gone down when the facts clearly show otherwise; breaking the law on responding to FoI requests; reneging on promised legislation; claiming credit for legislation that doesn’t exist; accepting donations that breach rules. You get the drift of what behaviour this category captures.

Election Rorts

In the months before the last election, the Government spent hundreds of millions of dollars of Australian taxpayers’ money on grants for sports, community safety, rural development programs and more. Many of these grants were disproportionally awarded to marginal seats, with limited oversight and even less accountability.

Dubious Travel Claims

Ministerial business that just happens to coincide with a grand final or a concert; electorate business that must be conducted in prime tourist locations, or at the same time as party fundraisers. All above board, maybe, but does it really pass the pub test? Or does it just reinforce the fact that politicians take the public for mugs?

Julie Bishop digs heels in over $25k shoes

Julie Bishop digs heels in over $25k shoes

What's a rort?

Conflicts of Interest

Deceptive Conduct

Election Rorts

Dubious Travel Claims

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