Shorten evokes Whitlam the hero, but is it really going to be his time?

The Labor leader summons up the legend of 1972 in Blacktown speech amid rallying cry to party faithful

The T-shirts said “it’s time” but the energy in the room followed up with a question mark. Could it really be this time?

Inside the low slung hall, you could have been in any Australian town, city or rural. But Bowman Hall, Blacktown, was deliberately chosen, a building as talisman from 1972 for Bill Shorten’s last big speech before the election.

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