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Leading article Australia

Shorten’s mensis horribilis

18 July 2015

9:00 AM

18 July 2015

9:00 AM

One problem of being Opposition leader is getting air time. They yearn for cut-through moments when the full focus of media and public attention is on them. Labor leader Bill ‘friend of the oppressed workers’ Shorten, however, is having a cut-through month. His only problem is he’s getting the sort of attention that kills political careers, not makes them.

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