Australian Times weekly newspaper | 15 October 2013

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15 - 21 October 2013 Issue: 485

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LABOR’S FACE LIFT

n Labor’s shadow frontbench includes 11 women and six new faces as Opposition Leader Bill Shorten seeks a new direction for his party, but not everybody's happy. By Katina Curtis and Paul Osborne OPPOSITION Leader Bill Shorten declared zero tolerance on disunity as he unveiled Labor's shadow frontbench, but it failed to stop angry outbursts from some who missed out. Anna Burke lashed out at the "faceless men" of Labor after failing to get the chief opposition whip job, saying caucus voted on deals done beforehand rather than on merit. "Our new leader Bill Shorten may hope for no rancour in the caucus, but the current outcome of the shadow ministry reflects an immediate reversion to the faceless men being firmly in control," she wrote on the Guardian Australia website. "Caucus voted on factional lines for the leadership and then sub-factional lines for executive positions, so whilst the party has embraced democratic change, the caucus has not." Party infighting and the conflict between Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd were key reasons voters turned on the Labor government at the September 7 election. Mr Shorten hopes to prevent that from dogging Labor in opposition, hence his "zero tolerance for disunity" announced after the caucus vote in Canberra on Monday which selected a new 30-member frontbench. He has returned to the pre-Rudd era process of having the caucus elect ...continued on p3

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Chopper buried There was the Mark "Chopper" Read who committed armed robberies and attempted to kidnap a judge, then there was the loyal and trustworthy family man. The "one of a kind" father and husband was laid to rest at an invitation-only funeral on Monday. "He's left behind a wife and two boys as a man and a father and that's how he should be remembered," Troy Johnston, a friend of Chopper’s, told Network Ten. Read died aged 58 last week after a battle with liver cancer, on Thursday in Clifton Hill. Read spent more than 23 years in jail for crimes including armed robbery, assault and kidnapping, including trying to abduct a Victorian County Court judge at gunpoint. He once claimed he was involved in killing 19 people and the attempted murder of 11 others. He was famously portrayed by Eric Bana in the 2000 film Chopper. Read was also Australia's bestselling true crime author, with copies of his first book Chopper: From the Inside selling more than 300,000 copies. Mr Johnston described him as "one of a kind". "He was one of the most generous and loyal friend and trustworthy people I've ever met in my life," he said. - AAP

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