Bill Shorten should consider his future amid AWU revelations
"As long as the Australian Workers Union stain lingers and/or grows, Labor cannot hope to win an election next September, let alone a snap poll that Prime Minister Tony Abbott may well call to capitalise on the Shorten malaise.
Last week Fairfax Media identified tens of millions of dollars of largely unexplained employer payments to the AWU's Victorian branch from January 2004 to late 2007. Mr Shorten was state secretary from 1998 and federal secretary from 2001 to 2007."
Mr Shorten called the reports "an unfair smear". They were not. They reflected legitimate investigations into a man asking voters to trust him."
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I'm very nervous about Shorten's leadership – he may well be a hard-working leader and have the best intentions, but he's a boring speaker and an uninspiring leader. That Abbott is now breathing down his neck doesn't bear thinking about – another three years of this crowd will just about finish this country.