Marise Payne

Marise Payne served in the Senate from 1997, becoming the longest-serving woman in the chamber’s history.

She was also the first woman to hold Defence — overseeing national defence policy — and later served as Minister for Foreign Affairs, among the most influential women in Australian politics.

Piemontite Genuine shows the jagged granulation of a mineral crushed from natural crags.

In concentrated areas — dark glasses, hair, structured leopard-print scarf — it pools into earthy plum-violet that grips the raised ridges. As it washes into the bursts, heavy mineral grains break apart and settle into crevices like crystalline rose-violet sediment.

An ancient mineral pigment with rock-like permanence that refuses to be smoothed over. Dark structural contours for unwavering poise over national security; jagged earthy blooms for a foundational presence that anchored the Senate for more than two decades.