Libs campaigning to last minute: Bishop Julie Bishop says the coalition isn't taking anything for granted and will campaign to the end. POTENTIAL coalition foreign minister Julie Bishop says she'll work to re-establish relationships with Australia's neighbours, especially Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Singapore, if she gets the job. Asked whether the Liberals' plan to reduce growth in the foreign aid budget would endear those countries to Australia, Ms Bishop said borrowing from overseas only to hand it back overseas was unsustainable in light of mounting debt. It's time that we lived within our means and that means slowing the growth in the aid budget, She was also asked whether now was a good time to announce the plan, given Australia's new UN Security Council presidency role, replying that there was "never a right time for decisions such as this." The difficulty is, Labor has blown the budget. Ms Bishop said the civil war in Syria would be one of the first issues she'd address as foreign minister, but the coalition isn't getting ahead of itself. She said the party will be campaigning down to the wire and isn't taking an election win for granted. "We know that every vote counts, every seat counts across the country, and so we'll be working very hard right up until the close of polls to ensure that we win the trust of every voter," she said.