She's usually the one being grilled but for a few minutes Julie Bishop became the reporter.
Or so it seemed after the foreign minister took the chance to ask not one, but three questions of AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday.
"An easy one first," she began, launching into the three-tier grilling.
When do you predict the first Eagles-Dockers grand final will be played in the new Perth Stadium?
The second - a "hard one" - was about the code's blockbuster new media deal.
Had Mr McLachlan done enough to protect the AFL supporter base against rising ticket prices and more pay-TV coverage?
The third was on behalf of a young Melbourne footballer in the US who wanted to know when the AFL would change rules around kickbacks.
Mr McLachlan answered the minister's first two questions with fervour - suggesting the minister will have to wait until 2039 for such a grand final, and acknowledging the challenge of getting bums on stadium seats.
He managed to jokingly avoid the final question.
Earlier, Mr McLachlan paid tribute to Ms Bishop - "a huge" West Coast Eagles fan - for being in the audience for his speech.
"(She is) not only the best foreign minister in the world, but clearly the most glamorous," he gushed.
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