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Why conservatives should love Shorten

Tony Abbott’s best chance of winning the next election is the person the PM’s supporters are so keen to destroy

18 July 2015

9:00 AM

18 July 2015

9:00 AM

It’s not looking good for Bill Shorten is it? Two days in the dock at the Royal Commission, the two worst parliamentary weeks of his leadership at his back and one hell of a National Conference only a week away. No wonder that sage old crocodile Laurie Oakes wrote in last Saturday’s News Corp tabloids that Mr Shorten should take out his parliamentary pension sooner rather than later for Labor’s sake.

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