It didn’t take long, did it?
After yesterday likening himself to Gough Whitlam, this morning Bill Shorten used Labor’s greatest peacetime prime minister’s death to claim he’s Bob Hawke’s successor. He boasted he is building on Hawke’s legacy in health, Medicare and education.
But he failed to mention Hawke’s greatest achievement: the economic modernisation of Australia.
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