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The Chloe Shorten family hour

1 June 2017

12:55 PM

1 June 2017

12:55 PM

On an icy Canberra evening, your correspondent makes her way through excited Chinese students to ANU’s Copland Theatre where Chloe Shorten is going to speak about her just-published book, Take Heart – A Story for Modern Stepfamilies’.

The Shortens, of course, are a modern blended step-family; he is the former union man and now Leader of the Opposition, she his second wife and the daughter of former Governor-General Quentin Bryce.

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