Bill Shorten gets smart on populism as Labor paints PM as a 'grinning fool in a baseball cap'

The Labor leader’s pitch spoke directly to voters most at risk of peeling off and voting for One Nation or other populists

He’s hinted at it before, but Bill Shorten took the opportunity of Labor’s national conference to be explicit in front of the party faithful in Adelaide.

The opponent for the next federal election was not so much Scott Morrison (relegated a few minutes earlier as a “grinning fool in a baseball cap” by the new party president, Wayne Swan), or Pauline Hanson, or the Greens, it was voter disaffection – “distrust and disengagement, scepticism and cynicism”.

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