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Daily Telegraph Sept 21 2008
How about this blast from the past from Pants Man Bill..Aussie?
LABOR MP Bill Shorten has left his wife for the daughter of Kevin Rudd's newly appointed Governor-General, Quentin Bryce.
The parliamentary secretary for disabilities and children's services separated from his wife, Deborah Beale, in the past month and is understood to be in a relationship with Chloe Bryce.
Mr Shorten, who was formerly the Australian Workers' Union national secretary, has beentouted as a future Labor leader for several years.
However, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd kept his distance yesterday from the political scandal engulfing one of his star MPs.
"We don't have any comment on the story,'' a spokesman for Mr Rudd said.
Mr Shorten and Ms Bryce have been friends for at least a year.
The pair had dinner together at Quentin Bryce's residence in Brisbane on September 5, 2007, when she was Queensland Governor, according to a Vice-Regal notice in Brisbane's Courier Mail newspaper.
"In the evening, the Governor received the call of Ms Chloe Bryce-Parkin and Mr Bill Shorten,'' the notice states.
Mr Shorten then went on to become elected as the Member for Maribyrnong at the federal election and thanked his wife, Deborah, in the maiden speech he delivered in February this year, four months after visiting the now-Governor General with Ms Bryce-Parkin.
"Above all others - and I can say this on Valentine's Day - I thank my wife, Deb Beale, an endlessly intelligent, supportive and loving woman,'' he said.
"I knew this instantly from my first outing, when she agreed to visit a picket line with me.''
He also thanked his parents-in-law, Julian and Felicity Beale.
Mr Shorten was one of five MPs invited to attend the September ceremony where Ms Quentin Bryce was sworn in as the 25th Governor-General of Australia.
Chloe Bryce attended the ceremony, with her two children, Georgette and Rupert, from her marriage to architect Roger Parkin.
How is this different to Barnaby Joyce's problem?
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