Bill Shorten spent much of his political life doing numbers. And the polling numbers coming out of Victoria’s Trades Hall a fortnight ago were scary.
Translated to the looming November election, the result would be a ruin deeper than that inflicted on Joan Kirner’s Labor government in 1992.
“Labor was heading off a cliff,” Shorten says. “In 1992, Joan Kirner got 27 seats and [Jeff] Kennett got 61. It [the 2026 election] was going to be worse than that.”
Shorten, a long-term powerbroker and former federal leader, argues the hostility confronting state Labor reflects a post-COVID frustration with all political parties, but especially Labor.
“In…
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