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Stop the Centrelink closures

The closure of Centrelink shopfronts is the slippery slide into Robodebt 2.0. The Government knows if they close the offices around Australia, what it will mean is that some people will just miss out.

Bill Shorten

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How we can all protect Australians from ‘harm’ online

Whether it’s children being harmed, the spread of misinformation or trolling or abuse, we need to keep surfacing the evidence about these harms and keep holding big tech to account.

Bill Shorten

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Australia must prioritise COVID-19 vax for vulnerable

People with disabilities are understandably scared for their health and angry at the Morrison Government for leaving them behind.

Bill Shorten

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Labor’s downfall is not recognising JobKeeper’s worth

JobKeeper was not a program that was implemented lightly. It was an extraordinary program for an extraordinary time. But the context of JobKeeper’s introduction cannot be forgotten.

Michael Sukkar

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Australia’s responsibility to help our helpers

At the end of this century’s 20-year quagmire war, those who served and particularly our fallen diggers deserve nothing less than a clear-eyed and candid analysis of this conflict.

Bill Shorten

‘False dawn’CommentsPremiumShorten warns against ditching lockdowns too early

Former Labor leader Bill Shorten says a huge amount of the country needs to be vaccinated before lockdowns are no longer necessary, warning against a UK-style ‘Freedom Day’.

Sarah Ison

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Bill Shorten stabs at ScoMo’s COVID vaccine shortfall

Replacing the disappointment of losing an election is a longing for our lives in Australia and around the world to return to a pre-COVID normality. The irony is very real.

Bill Shorten

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Why McGowan will make sure WA wins at Federal poll

Since WA Labor destroyed the Liberals at the State election, there’s an ingredient political strategists have been grappling with for next year’s Federal election: Mark McGowan.

Peter Law

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Vaccine rollout has failed our most vulnerable

It put me in the mind of the English author’s famed opening of his classic novel A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

Bill Shorten

Federal electionCommentsPremiumALP has fixed costly past policy mistakes: Shorten

Former opposition leader Bill Shorten says the Labor Party has corrected the mistakes that lost it the last Federal election, conceding they ‘probably had too many ideas’.

Sarah Ison

$22 billion schemeCommentsPremiumPeople ‘will die’ without NDIS overhaul: Bill Shorten

The National Disability Insurance Scheme has been “betrayed” and is in urgent need of reform, former Labor leader Bill Shorten says.

Sarah Ison

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Australia being held ransom by botched vaccine rollout

How has Australia go from being the world-beater of COVID-19 to number 104 when it comes to vaccinations?

Bill Shorten

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Bill Shorten: Put down the shears and let mullets bloom

Sometimes in the doom and gloom of modern life and politics there is a quirky story that cuts through. Which is why I’m writing today in defence of mullet liberation.

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Change of Australia Day date ‘inevitable’

The debate about when to celebrate Australia comes around at this time every year but a date change at some point is inevitable, writes Bill Shorten.

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Go bigCommentsPremiumShorten pleads with Labor to ‘stand for something’

Former Opposition leader Bill Shorten has warned Labor against pursuing a tiny policy agenda at the next election, arguing the Coalition is beatable with the right focus.

Annabel Hennessy

Short on trustPremiumBill’s backstory to blame for election defeat

There was one exchange during the release of Labor’s election review yesterday that provided a searing insight into the reasons for the party’s defeat that you won’t find in the pages of the report.

Mark Riley

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Beloved leaderPremiumPM like Hawke: Advice for Albo after election review

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has been encouraged to adopt a ‘Bob Hawke’ leadership style after voters’ dislike of Bill Shorten was found to be a major factor in the party’s shock election loss.

Lanai Scarr

Lanai Scarr AnalysisPremiumWA’s omission in election review another ALP oversight

An analysis of the 2019 election should tell the Opposition everything it needs to know to win in 2022, but it’s what isn’t in the review that could cost them WA — and Australian — votes.

Lanai Scarr

Sobering resultsPremium‘We’ve got their back’: Labor’s plan to reclaim WA

Labor must convince blue-collar workers the party “has got their back” and its policies are not something to be afraid of, says the ALP’s star 2019 candidate in WA, Hannah Beazley.

Peter Law

Blame gamePremiumFederal Election loss ‘not Bill’s fault’

Don’t blame Bill — that’s the message WA Labor MPs are spruiking ahead of the Federal party’s release of its autopsy later this week into what went so drastically wrong at their May election defeat.

Joe Spagnolo

Still hurtingPremiumCan a beaten ALP face reality in WA?

Anthony Albanese has a clear task. Steady the team. Get his frontbench motivated and show West Australians his entire team cares about our State.

Lanai Scarr

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shadow of himselfPremiumShorten’s rocky return to WA

Bill Shorten’s first trip back to WA since his bruising election defeat was a mixed bag as the former opposition leader ran a National Disability Insurance Scheme forum in Rockingham.

Lanai Scarr and Joanna Delalande

ExclusivePremiumLabor looks to end its Twitter love affair

The Australian Labor Party is considering drastically reducing its reliance on Twitter as it prepares to release its internal “warts-and-all-review” of why it lost the election.

Annabel Hennessy

ExclusivePremiumAlbo puts jobs, WA front and centre

Anthony Albanese will pledge to improve productivity and training and increase the number of Australians in work as part of a major jobs plan to be unveiled in Perth later this month.

Lanai Scarr