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After six years as opposition leader, history beckons Bill Shorten. Will the ‘drover’s dog’ have its day?

Eyes on the prize: if the polls are right, Bill Shorten will become the next prime minister. But what kind of prime minister would he be? AAP/Lukas Coch Today we run two longer reads on the men who ...
CNN

Six things to know about Australia’s leadership hopeful Bill Shorten

The man bidding to be Australia’s next leader is a 52-year-old former unionist and ardent republican known for both his love of dad jokes and his “assassin” role in bringing down two sitting Prime ...
The Washington Post

Can a politician take on Rupert Murdoch’s empire and win? Australia will be the test.

Australia's opposition leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Canberra, Australia, on May 8. (Mick Tsikas/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) In the home country ...
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Bill Shorten says the lesson of Brexit is that people shouldn’t be left behind

Bill Shorten was confident a Labor government could keep its promises. Mick Tsikas/AAP Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has linked Britain’s decision to leave the European Union back to inequality and ...
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Grattan on Friday: What’s bad for Bill Shorten? Too much election focus on the unions

While Bill Shorten insists Labor has zero tolerance for instances of union thuggery and corruption, he tends to minimise the issue. Dan Peled/AAP Bill Shorten should be praying those pesky ...
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Bill Shorten to quit politics next year to become vice‑chancellor of University of Canberra

Bill Shorten will retire from parliament in February but will remain in cabinet until then to continue his reform of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. He will then become the vice-chancellor ...

Eight amusing and insightful things Bill Shorten said at our summit

From Sicilian knife fights and sheep shearing to “wokery”, the former Labor leader opens up about his transition from politics to university vice chancellor.
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Bill Shorten’s campaign pitch: don’t risk Medicare under the Liberals

Bill Shorten has pledged Labor would retain the bulk-billing incentive for pathology and diagnostic imaging, and give a modest tax break to small businesses to get people back into the workforce, at a ...
New York Post

Australian opposition leader Bill Shorten concedes defeat to PM Scott Morrison

Australian opposition leader Bill Shorten has conceded defeat to Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the country’s general election. Shorten made the announcement to supporters of his opposition Labor ...
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Grattan on Friday: Bill Shorten had a ‘captain’s fall’ rather than making a ‘captain’s call’

Some who flirt with the idea of a change believe Labor is on the cusp of regaining office but fear Shorten mightn’t get over the final hurdle. Mick Tsikas/AAP One can only imagine the extreme tension ...
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Mis‑red: why Bill Shorten is not a socialist

Successful politicians need fortune to smile on them – to be “hit in the arse by a rainbow”, as Paul Keating said of Peter Costello. If this is so, federal Labor leader Bill Shorten’s backside must by ...