Bill Shorten notes a string of proud policy achievements and recalls the uproar when he tackled a sausage sandwich side-on as he farewells parliament
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When a political fighter leaves the arena, it’s often an enemy who confers the highest praise.
As Bill Shorten farewelled the parliament just three days shy of 17 years since he arrived, it was Peter Dutton, his weekly sparring partner on Friday morning breakfast TV, who said what the prime minister and Shorten himself could not.