What's this guy's legacy?
-
AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Bill Shorten - how long?
- Thread starter Lester Burnham
- Start date
- Tagged users None
Strong union leader, held on to his values all the way though. Rebuilt a divided ALP into a competitive force. Lost a very winnable election in 2019 putting forward policies that would actually be quite popular today in the current environment. In some ways a blessing politically they lost as it forced the country to see the financial mismanagement of the coalition during a global crisis. He fought hard against robodebt, and reinvigorating the NDIS. Bill was never about identity politics, he simply believed in the idea that government can do good when it focuses on lifting up those is need, the real backbone of the party. Albo is the face you put forward to win elections, but Bill would be the bloke you want as PM to get things done.
Traditional Labor Right figures are getting thin on the ground. There goes another one.
Thank god he's gone
Gave us the comedy clusterbomb that was Rudd/Gillard/Rudd years.
He failed when he stepped up to the plate.
Gave us the comedy clusterbomb that was Rudd/Gillard/Rudd years.
He failed when he stepped up to the plate.
Mostly attention seeking, failure and hypocrisy. Made Beaconsfield about himself, lost an unlosable election due to a terrible campaign that didn't target priority issues and couldn't handle questioning, and then having a great job talking up the need for an NDIS.in opposition actually worked to gut it.
So in summary, talked the right things but incompetent and dishonest, eg. your typical politician although to be fair I don't think he is corrupt in anyway unlike many state and federal pollies from both parties recently.
On SM-A136B using BigFooty.com mobile app
- May 13, 2007
- 2,684
- 4,003
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Seahawks, Huskies, Newcastle Utd.
- Feb 18, 2017
- 4,851
- 6,722
- AFL Club
- Brisbane Lions
I was r*ped by Scott Morrison
See, no one cares
See, no one cares
Last edited:
- May 13, 2014
- 2,232
- 2,476
- AFL Club
- Geelong
**** off Bill.
I'll miss him. 18 May 2019 was a sad day for Australia when it rejected (not by a big margin, I might add) the Shorten platform. Imagine how much better Australia would have handled covid-19 had Labor been in.
You can tell from his words and actions that Bill Shorten gives a shit. In politics, that is all too rare.
You can tell from his words and actions that Bill Shorten gives a shit. In politics, that is all too rare.
His actions undermining NDIS suggest he is just talk and ego so whilst his policies sounded good, he could have been an awful PM (better than Scummo of course)
On SM-A136B using BigFooty.com mobile app
We probably would have had more RAT tests in January 2022. The vaccine decisions would have been very similar (countries with higher rates of infection and death would still have got more earlier). Andrews would have still proposed hotel quarantine and every jurisdiction would have agreed. The stimulus would have been very similar.
Theseventhhamster
Brownlow Medallist
Hotel quarantine was put in because the Libs were going to have people doing the honour system at home.
