In my Backwards and Forwards column on Monday, I said that if Bill Shorten gave a barnstorming, grievance-pandering, promise-laden speech in reply to Josh Frydenberg’s first budget, Labor could steal the headlines and the momentum as this benighted parliament rose for the last time.
That’s just what Shorten did.
If you look at Friday’s headlines, bar the sober Australian, Shorten is Father Christmas, Mother Teresa and Bambi rolled into one.
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