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Australian Books

The sentimental socialist

7 May 2016

9:00 AM

7 May 2016

9:00 AM

For the Common Good Bill Shorten

Melbourne University Press, pp.171, $27.99, ISBN: 9780522869415

Having done something similar myself, I wondered how Bill Shorten would handle the challenge of a campaign biography. My book, Battlelines, published in 2009, not long before I became opposition leader, was part biography, part political philosophy and part policy manifesto. For the Common Good is Shorten’s attempt to show that he has the substance to be prime minister.

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