Bill Shorten

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Bill Shorten

William Richard "Bill" Shorten (born May 12, 1967 in Melbourne ) is an Australian politician . From October 2013 to May 2019 he was chairman of the Labor Party and leader of the opposition. Previously, he held several positions as a member of the Australian government.

politics

In the general election in Australia in 2007 Shorten was first elected to the House of Representatives for the constituency of Maribyrnong . He succeeded his party friend Bob Sercombe , who had no longer run as a member of the parliament. In the Rudd I cabinet, he had been State Secretary for the disabled and youth work since 2007 . In February 2009, he also took on the task of rebuilding the destruction caused by bushfires in Victoria.

In the run-up to the 2010 general election , he was seen as a pioneer for the replacement of Kevin Rudd as Labor Party leader and Prime Minister by then Education Minister Julia Gillard . Under her leadership, the Laboratory was able to continue to officiate as a minority government with the support of some independents and a Greens . Shorten himself became Minister of Finance Services and Pensions in Gillard's government . As part of a cabinet reshuffle in December 2011, he also took over the Ministry of Labor.

In the intra-party vote on the party chairmanship on June 26, 2013, Shorten announced that he would resign if Rudd was elected as minister. After Rudd actually won the fight vote against Gillard, he did not resign from the government, contrary to his announcement. Instead, he headed both the education and labor ministries until the 2013 election . After the Labor Party lost the election to the national conservative coalition around Tony Abbott , he left the government. Shorten himself won his constituency again with 47.9 percent of the vote. His successor as Minister of Education was Christopher Pyne ; Eric Abetz succeeded him as Minister of Labor .

After Kevin Rudd's resignation as party chairman of the Laboratory, he was elected as the new party leader on October 13, 2013. He prevailed against Anthony Albanese with 52.02 percent and also took over the chairmanship of the Labor Group in the House of Representatives, so that he has also been the opposition leader since then. Tanya Plibersek was elected as Shorten's deputy . After losing two elections in a row in 2016 and 2019 , he announced his resignation from the party chairmanship, in which he was succeeded by his rival candidate from 2013, Anthony Albanese. Albanese then appointed Shorten as shadow minister for the civil service and the disability insurance system.

Private

Shorten has been married to Chloe Bryce for the second time since 2009, with whom he has a daughter who was born in 2009. He was previously married to Debbie Beale, the daughter of former LNP MP Julian Beale, from 2004 to 2008 .

Shorten is of Catholic faith.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bill Shorten on the Australian Labor Party website (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Bill Shorten on the homepage of the Australian Parliament (English); accessed: August 15, 2015
  3. ^ Profile of the electoral division of Maribyrnong (Vic) , Australian Electoral Commission (English); accessed: August 15, 2015
  4. ^ I urged Gillard to challenge Rudd: Bill Shorten , The Sydney Morning Herald, June 29, 2010 (English); accessed on August 15, 2015
  5. ^ Labor leadership spill: Julia Gillard vs. Kevin Rudd - as it happened , The Guardian, June 26, 2010 (English); accessed on August 15, 2015
  6. ↑ a b Bill Shorten elected Labor leader over Anthony Albanese after month-long campaign , ABC News, October 13, 2013; accessed on August 15, 2015
  7. ↑ a b Shorten fits the Bill as referee for his ex-wife , The Age, December 11, 2009; accessed on August 15, 2015
  8. ↑ Baby Clementine wows Labor MP Bill Shorten and wife Chloe Bryce , Herald Sun on 24 December 2009 (English); accessed on August 15, 2015
  9. ↑ Politicians' Catholic background , eurekastreet.com.au, October 16, 2013 (English); accessed on August 15, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Shorten, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shorten, William Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne