Lettuce, sausages and ‘simps’: Bill Shorten’s most memorable zingers

‘You do regret your mistakes, you don’t forget your failures,’ Bill Shorten said on Thursday. ‘What I would give to go back to election day 2016 and turn up a sausage and bread and eat it a different way.’ Photograph: Mick Tsikas/EPA

The former Labor leader Bill Shorten has hung up the boots after 17 years in the big house.

“I stand here neither defeated nor disposed, lucky to have served, fortunate to be able to say goodbye and thank you,” Shorten told the House of Representatives in his valedictory speech on Thursday.