Former Liberal Party deputy leader and foreign minister Julie Bishop has been appointed for a second term as chancellor of the Australian National University.
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The ANU Council voted unanimously to keep the former high-level politician in the role.
When she was first appointed in 2019, she was the first woman to hold the prestigious position.
Her first term started on January 1, 2020 and ends at the end of next year - but the reappointment gives her a further four years.
The chancellor of the university is not in charge of the day-to-day running or matters like staffing - that's for the vice-chancellor, who acts as a chief executive. The chancellor chairs the university's council, which can make bigger strategic decisions. She is also prominent in the big ceremonies like graduation.
ANU vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt praised his chancellor who took over with the bushfires at their height: "Despite a first term besieged by fire, hail and pandemic, Julie has done an outstanding job helping steer the University through these adverse times with outstanding leadership of the ANU Council.
"She has raised the University's profile domestically and abroad, and has further extended the University's global connections through a tireless program of engagement and advocacy, hindered, but not deterred, by the pandemic."
In August, Professor Schmidt defended the spending of $800,000 on a new office in Perth for the chancellor, stating it would be unfair to treat a female chancellor differently from men who have previously held the job. The same had been done for Ms Bishop's predecessor.
Back in 2019, the appointment of Ms Bishop to the first term came just after she had left politics at just short of the very top level. She had been Foreign Minister but failed in a bid for the leadership of the Liberals, a post which would have made her prime minister.
A political obituary at the time said: "It captured the tragedy of Bishop's political career. She was admired and appreciated by just about every constituency at home and abroad, but not her own party."
In a pre-recorded message when she took the chancellorship of the ANU, she said: "ANU is playing a vital role in the research and development to create a better world," she said.
After retiring from politics, she also took a seat on the boards of some companies - and there was talk which came to nothing of her hosting a talk show on TV.
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