We’re still collectively adjusting to a new look ministry without one of Australian politics’ most accomplished women. Since MP Julie Bishop resigned from her position as Foreign Minister in the fallout of former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s ousting, women around the country having been in bipartisan mourning.

Yet, despite sitting on the backbench until the impending election, Bishop is doing anything but fading quietly into the political background. If anything, her public cachet has never been in better shape.