More background on Julie Bishop, seeing as that was requested - her past activities.
Unusual for a lawyer not to correctly reference anything they publish.
2008
Bishop in new plagiarism episode
DEPUTY Liberal leader Julie Bishop is embroiled in her second plagiarism controversy in a month, last night telephoning a New Zealand businessman to apologise that his words have appeared in a new book under her name without attribution.
Some parts of Ms Bishop's essay are lifted word-for-word from a speech the businessman made in 1999 and, in other parts, words have been substituted or changed slightly.
It is an embarrassment for Ms Bishop and the publishers, Melbourne University Press, that one of the major essays in a book about the future of the Liberal Party was written in part nine years ago by New Zealand businessman Roger Kerr.
For example, Mr Kerr had stated as a fact that in competitive labour markets firms compete for the services of employees.
But Ms Bishop's essay changes this to insert that the Liberal Party believes this.
In late September, Ms Bishop was accused of plagiarism for lifting material from The Wall Street Journal for a speech.
The new controversy involves her contribution to Liberals and Power: The Road Ahead, a new book edited by academic Peter van Onselen to be published this week.
Ironically, after the Wall Street Journal controversy, Dr van Onselen wrote in The Australian that if one of his students had done what Ms Bishop had done he would have failed them.
Last night, Dr van Onselen said: "Whilst I understand how political offices work, it is still disappointing to learn that Julie didn't see fit to write herself a chapter in a book that is meant to be about ideas for the future of the Liberal Party."
