Politics is full of “what ifs?” As Bill Shorten prepares to exit parliament early next year, and Anthony Albanese may be on the path to a minority government, the question invites itself: what if Shorten had won the 2019 election?
At the time, it seemed to most observers the unlosable election – until he lost it.
Events would have derailed a Shorten government, to a greater or lesser extent, just as they did the Morrison government.