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Introduction
Marise Payne is an Australian politician who has been Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Morrison Government since 2018 and Minister for Women since 2019. She has been a Senator for New South Wales since 1997, representing the Liberal Party.
Payne was the first woman to serve as federal president of the Young Liberals (1989–1991). Payne was appointed to the Senate in 1997, in place of Bob Woods. She was elected to a full term in 2001 and has since been re-elected four more times. Payne was first added to the shadow ministry in 2007, and when the Coalition returned to power in 2013 she was made Minister for Human Services in the Abbott Government.
She was appointed Minister for Defence when Malcolm Turnbull became prime minister, becoming the first woman to hold the position. After Turnbull was replaced by Scott Morrison in August 2018, it was announced that she would replace Julie Bishop as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the new government. She is currently the most senior female senator, having been in office since 1997.
Early life
| Name | Marise Payne |
| Net Worth | $4 million |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Height | 1.65m |
| Age | 57 years |
Marise Ann Payne was born on July 29, 1964 (age 57 years) in Sydney, Australia. She is the daughter of Ann Noreen Johns and William Elliott Payne. Her father was a World War II veteran who worked as an accountant and farmer. Payne grew up in Bardwell Park, in Sydney’s southern suburbs. She attended MLC School before going on to the University of New South Wales, where she graduated with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees. In her second year at university, she was involved in a road accident near Michelago. She was a passenger in a car that rolled over and she received serious injuries to her neck, fracturing her odontoid process.
Payne joined the Liberal Party in 1982 and was state president of the New South Wales Young Liberals from 1987 to 1988. She then served as federal president of the Young Liberals from 1989 to 1991, the first woman to hold the position, and as a member of the state executive of the New South Wales Liberals from 1991 to 1997. In 1991, Payne was an unsuccessful candidate to fill the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Peter Baume. At the time she was serving as private secretary to Senator Robert Hill.
In 1994, Payne was appointed vice-chair of the Australian Republican Movement, serving under chairman Malcolm Turnbull. At the time, she was working as an adviser to Premier John Fahey and serving on the Liberal Party’s state executive. Tony Abbott, who was then the national executive director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, criticized her for accepting the position, stating “anyone who does not support constitutional monarchy is at odds with the party”. John Howard accused her of a “conflict of interest”, stating she had joined “an organization dominated by Labor sympathizers”.
Career
Marise Payne was chosen by the Liberal Party to fill the casual vacancy following the resignation of Senator Bob Woods in March 1997. She took office on 9 April 1997 and has subsequently been re-elected to the Senate at the 2001, 2007, 2013, and 2016 elections. Her office is located in Parramatta, in Sydney’s western suburbs.
Payne was a backbencher for her first decade in the Senate, from 1997 to 2007. When she took her seat, The Sydney Morning Herald ran a headline describing her as “Senator John Howard Didn’t Want”. She was preselected in third place on the Coalition ticket at the 2001 election, with Howard intervening to ensure Helen Coonan ranked ahead of her as the first Liberal candidate. Prior to the 2007 election, members of the Liberal Party’s conservative faction attempted to have Payne removed from the ticket. However, for the sake of unity Howard and Bill Heffernan intervened to ensure that she retained a winning place on the Coalition ticket. Payne served on various Senate committees during that time, notably as chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, and the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee.
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She was appointed as a shadow parliamentary secretary after the Coalition lost the 2007 election, with responsibility for foreign affairs (2007–2008) and international development assistance and indigenous affairs (2008–2009). When Tony Abbott became Leader of the Opposition in December 2009, she was appointed Shadow Minister for COAG and Modernising the Federation. After the 2010 election, she was instead made Shadow Minister for Housing and Shadow Minister for Indigenous Development and Employment.
When the Coalition won the 2013 federal election, Payne was appointed Minister for Human Services in the Abbott Government. In March 2014, she announced that Medicare offices would close on Saturdays, as there had been a “60 percent reduction in walk-ins into Medicare shopfronts on Saturdays”. In June 2014, she announced the creation of “myGov hybrid government shopfronts”, which are designed to assist customers with setting up online accounts for government services such as Centrelink, Medicare, the Australian Taxation Office, and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
After Malcolm Turnbull defeated Tony Abbott in a leadership spill, Payne was elevated to the cabinet and appointed Minister for Defence in the Turnbull Government from 21 September 2015. She was the second woman to hold the position, Ros Kelly (Labor) was the first woman, which has existed since the Federation in 1901. Neil James, the executive director of the Australia Defence Association, welcomed her appointment, stating: “Too many defense ministers have been shoved sideways into this portfolio in the twilight of the parliamentary careers because it’s seen as a badge of seniority, and defense suffers. Marise Payne is a politician with a large part of her parliamentary career still ahead of her, and with this appointment, unlike the last few, there’s more to be optimistic about than to be pessimistic about.”
Marise Payne oversaw the final months of the long-anticipated 2016 Defence White Paper, which she launched in February 2016 with Turnbull and Chief of the Defence Force Mark Binskin. She also launched the government’s Integrated Investment Program and the Defence Industry Policy Statement. A spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry criticized the white paper for its “negative” remarks about the South China Sea. Payne responded that “we have a strong defense relationship with China but we do have a point of difference in this regard and we are certainly not going to take a backward step in articulating our position”.
Payne and Turnbull announced that French firm DCNS, now called Naval Group, had been awarded a $50 billion contract to build a new fleet of submarines for the Royal Australian Navy in April 2016. The submarine project will be undertaken in Adelaide rather than in France, generating 2,800 jobs. Payne had abdominal surgery in late 2016, which resulted in the deferral of the “two-plus-two” meeting between the foreign and defense ministers of Australia and Japan.
In January 2018, the Australian Financial Review reported that Turnbull had considered replacing Payne with Christopher Pyne in the December 2017 cabinet reshuffle. She would then have been appointed to succeed Mark Higgie as the Australian Ambassador to NATO and the European Union. Her department reportedly began preparing briefing papers for the new minister, but in the end, the move was not carried out.
Morrison Government
Malcolm Turnbull was replaced by Scott Morrison as Liberal leader and prime minister on 24 August 2018. Foreign minister Julie Bishop, an unsuccessful candidate for the Liberal leadership, announced her resignation from cabinet on 26 August. Morrison subsequently announced that Marise Payne would succeed Bishop as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the new government. She was sworn in on 28 August, becoming Australia’s second female foreign minister. After the government’s re-election at the 2019 election, Payne was also appointed Minister for Women.
Payne welcomed the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates as a positive and important step towards a peaceful and secure the Middle East, adding that she welcomed the suspension of Israel’s plans to annex parts of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank. In mid-April 2021, Payne visited her New Zealand counterpart Nanaia Mahuta to discuss several issues of concern to Australia-New Zealand relations including New Zealand deportees from Australia, the ISIL bride Suhayra Aden and the two government’s differing approaches towards China and the Five Eyes alliance.
In early June 2021, Marise Payne contacted her Saudi Arabian counterpart to address the plight of a dual national, Osama al-Hasani, extradited from Morocco and being allegedly kept in detention in the Kingdom. Payne took the measure following increasing pressure from human rights groups concerning al-Hasani’s detention. The dual Saudi-Australia citizen was arrested on 8 February by Moroccan authorities and extradited to Saudi Arabia, due to alleged accusations of stealing Range Rovers from a car dealership in 2015. Human Rights Watch claims that al-Hasani was cleared of all wrongdoings as per a 2019 affidavit it viewed.
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Following the 2021 Hong Kong legislative election, Payne and her fellow foreign ministers from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the US Secretary of State issued a joint statement criticizing the exclusion of opposition candidates, the Hong Kong national security law, and the curtailment of media freedoms. The joint statement also urged Beijing to abide by its international obligations to protect human rights and freedoms in Hong Kong including those guaranteed by the Sino-British Joint Declaration.
Political positions
Marise Payne is viewed as a member of the Liberal Party’s moderate or “small-l liberal” wing. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Payne is a member of the Moderate/Modern Liberal faction of the Liberal Party. In a 2008 interview, she stated: “I am a liberal, I am a member of the Liberal Party. I have always called myself a liberal. If I had wanted to be a conservative I would have gone to London and joined the Conservative Party.”
Payne is a republican and served as vice-chair of the Australian Republican Movement in the 1990s. According to Senator Simon Birmingham, she argued forcefully against the Northern Territory National Emergency Response in the Liberal party room. In 2002, she said she had “very real concerns” about how mandatory detention of illegal immigrants affected women and children, proposing that they instead be released into the community. In 2004, in response to calls for the federal government to withdraw Medicare funding of abortions, she stated “people should not be prepared to see the rights and health of Australian women go backward”.
Husband
Marise Payne is in a long-term relationship with Stuart Ayres, who is a minister in the New South Wales state government. The couple met while campaigning together at the 2007 federal election. As of 2010, they were building a home together in Mulgoa. However, on 19 April 2020, Payne called for a global inquiry into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic including China’s handling of the initial outbreak in Wuhan. She called for the inquiry to be conducted independently of the World Health Organization. Payne’s call was supported by the opposition Labor Party’s Health spokesperson Chris Bowen, who urged the Morrison Government to win international support for the inquiry.
Marise Payne net worth
How much is Marise Payne worth? Marise Payne net worth is estimated at around $4 million. Her main source of income is from her career as a politician. Her salary for 2022 ranges from $162,574 to $475,483, but with bonuses, benefits and various other compensation, she made significantly more than her salary in the year 2020. Payne successful career has earned him some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars trips. She is one of the richest and influential politicians in Australia.