Mis-red: why Bill Shorten is not a socialist
- Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
Bill Shorten is the longest-serving Labor leader since Kim Beazley in his first stint in office.AAP/Lukas Coch
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 now be glowing...