2 DEAD, 241 INJURED IN 6.0 QUAKE IN WESTERN IRAN
‘brilliant, what a genius idea!’”, she said, putting down the behaviour to an “unconscious bias”.
“It’s almost a deafness that we still see in Australian society,” she said.
A trailblazer who was Australia’s
leader, the 62-year-old was hailed by her peers Sunday.
Turnbull tweeted that she was “an inspiring role model for women here and around the world”.
Her Labor counterpart Penny Wong praised her “tireless work ethic”, adding that her “commitment to standing up for Australia both here and abroad has never been in question”.
Renowned for her steely gaze dubbed the “death stare”, Bishop’s highlights as foreign minister include her strong condemnation of Russia’s role in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines MH17 in 2014.
Two people were killed and more than 200 injured in a strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake that struck western Iran near the border with Iraq early Sunday, officials told local media. The shallow quake hit 26 kilometers southwest of the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah province, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, near the site of a powerful quake last year that killed hundreds. The head of the emergency department Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Saeb Sharidari, told state news agency IRNA that two people were killed and 241 people injured, six critically. Sharidari said the two dead were a pregnant woman and a 70-year-old man who died of a heart attack. The provincial head of the Red Crescent, Mohammad Reza Amirian, said there had been at least 21 aftershocks. He said there were potential problems with drinking water due to damaged infrastructure in villages, but that it had not yet been necessary to distribute food and tents. Kermanshah governor Houshang Bazvand told the Tasnim news agency that electricity had been temporarily cut to several villages. Iran sits on top of two major tectonic plates and sees frequent seismic activity. In November last year a major 7.3-magnitude quake killed 620 people in Kermanshah province and another eight people in Iraq.