During business hours Bishop usually remains [notoriously] poker-faced, however, during a speech that Treasurer Joe Hockey gave today during a parliamentary hiatus in honour of the late Malcolm Fraser, Bishop quite literally put face to palm on hearing her colleague’s remarks – actions that speak to more underlying tension in a party already rife with enmity.
“[Fraser] was the great initiator of the Expenditure Review Committee,” noted Hockey of the late Prime Minister, who died at the age of 84 in the early hours of Friday mornin. Hockey then observed that the ERC “has endured, much to the chagrin of my colleagues.“
Bishop’s reaction, in her preferred dialect, 
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Bishop, who visited cyclone ravaged Vanuatu over the weekend, was apparently totally unaware of the looming cuts and has since indicated that she intends to confront Hockey over the source of those reports. According to The Australian, Bishop today also announced “a $140 million innovation hub designed to tap private-sector expertise to revolutionise the delivery and effectiveness of Australia’s international aid.”
When asked by ABC Radio earlier this morning if she was aware that her budget was about to be cut again, Bishop responded, “Well you’d hope I would be, wouldn’t you? So I will certainly be taking that up with the Treasurer to find out the source of that story.“
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