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The true story of Kimberley Kitching and the Labor gang

An ALP sub-faction centred on Bill Shorten risks betraying the party and gifting Scott Morrison a chance to hold on to power.
Bill Shorten and Kimberley Kitching (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)
Bill Shorten and Kimberley Kitching (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

Scott Morrison and his government are running ten points behind on Newspoll and the Libs have just taken a shellacking in South Australia. They probably won’t win in May. Should they somehow do so, one major reason why would be the front page of Saturday’s Tele and Herald Sun — where Health Workers Union secretary Diana Asmar, Kimberley Kitching’s friend and factional mate, unloads on Anthony Albanese in the strongest terms to date, claiming Kitching was a “nervous wreck” at the sight of Penny Wong and others, all but claiming she was a dead woman walking.

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