As an effective and hardworking foreign minister for more than a decade, Julie Bishop has won much public support at home and the respect of politicians and diplomats across the world.
And for more than a decade, the West Australian lawyer with the killer stare and sharp fashion sense was the Liberal Party's second in command.
But that wasn't enough for her colleagues, who rewarded her strong ministerial performance and loyalty with just 11 votes in Friday's leadership ballot.
That's contributed to the 62-year-old's decision to quit as foreign minister and consider resigning from Parliament at the next election - due by May next year - ending her 20-year career in federal politics.
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The making of Julie Bishop
Born and educated in South Australia, she moved to Perth with her husband, property developer Neil Gillion in 1983.
They later divorced but Bishop stayed put as she rose through the ranks of Clayton Utz to become managing partner in 1994.
She also served as a director of SBS, chair of the Western Australia Town Planning Appeals Tribunal and a member of the Murdoch University Senate.
After studying at the Harvard Business School in Boston, she returned to Australia and began her political career.
She's held the blue ribbon Liberal seat of Curtain in Western Australia since 1998.
Bishop briefly served as the Minister for Ageing and then Education Minister under then prime minister John Howard, but it wasn't until 2013 when she was appointed Foreign Affairs Minister by Tony Abbott that she really made her mark.
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Achievements on the world stage
Bishop reaped the benefits of Labor's lobbying for a United Nations Security Council seat, making the most of it to tackle issues including Iran, Islamic State's rise in Iraq and Syria and shaming Russia over the MH17 tragedy.
The families of the Malaysian Airline disaster victims appreciated her deep and ongoing interest and sympathetic response.
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She played a key role in healing the damage caused to relations with Indonesia by Labor's live cattle debacle, turning back boats and the Indonesian president phone tapping scandal.
At times, her profile put her ahead of Turnbull in the popularity stakes.
In a March 2017 poll by Roy Morgan, 30 per cent of people surveyed said she was their preferred Liberal Party leader, compared to 27 per cent for Turnbull and 5 per cent for Peter Dutton.
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Asked in 2013 if she could withstand several terms of government as foreign minister, the reportedly indefatigable Bishop was unwavering.
"Absolutely," she said without a moment's hesitation.
"You have to have inexhaustible supplies of energy to be a federal politician from Western Australia anyway."
Don’t call her a feminist
She may be Australia's first female foreign minister and has been the most senior woman in Cabinet for years, but she has resisted being defined by her gender.
Her repeated refusal to call herself a feminist has frustrated some.
“I don’t find the need to self-describe in that way [as a feminist],” she famously said in an address to the National Press Club in 2014.
The formidable politician said the term feminism was “not particularly useful” and dismissed concerns about a glass ceiling holding back women in Parliament.
Fit and fashionable
Sometimes referred to as JBish, she is certainly Australia's fittest and most fashionable foreign minister.
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Even as she jet-setted around the world, she did her best to reserve an hour each morning for a run, sometimes joined by powerful leaders, including then British foreign secretary Boris Johnson.
Whether she's wearing trendy sportswear or glittery earrings and brooches, Ms Bishop has become a fashion icon in Canberra, naming Georgio Armani as a favourite designer.
"I have always loved fashion and beautiful clothes and magazines and all of that, that doesn’t mean I can’t have a serious career and hold deeply complex, serious conversations about world events with people. To suggest you can’t do both is insulting," Ms Bishop told Stellar.
She's often accompanied on the red carpet by partner of four years, David Panton.
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