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Flat White

Behind Bill

15 August 2017

12:48 PM

15 August 2017

12:48 PM

David Marr appropriately titled his Quarterly Essay on Bill Shorten, ‘Faction Man’, for the Labor leader was shaped by the Right – the Australian Workers Union kind of Right

Now former Shorten staffer turned academic, Nick Dyrenfurth, has written a new book on an old history, that of the AWU itself and its entrenched power and influence.

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