Taking shot after shot in rapid-fire succession, the photographer can’t pull himself away from Megan Gale. To be fair, she is pretty hypnotising. Dressed in a figure-hugging, leopard-print dress with spaghetti straps and a low neckline, the Australian model radiates high-octane glamour as she tosses her dark hair to reveal huge, gold earrings shaped in the Dolce&Gabbana initials.

Yet the person who proceeds to hijack the spotlight – who has people queuing up to have their selfies taken with her – is a 68-year-old retired politician. Julie Bishop looks magnificent in a sheer D&G dress of black-and-white polka-dots topped by an oversized collar, the monochromatic look disrupted only by the electric pink of her nails.