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MP Bill Shorten expecting child with Chloe Bryce
Bill Shorten, Chloe Bryce expecting child Both still married to other people Shorten has been touted as a future PM
LEADING Labor MP Bill Shorten has confirmed he's expecting a child with girlfriend Chloe Bryce, the daughter of the Governor-General, as both battle messy divorces with their previous partners.
Mr Shorten, 42 and sometimes touted as a future Prime Minister,
told The Sunday Telegraph the baby was due in January.
Contacted to comment, Mr Shorten's estranged wife, Debbie Beale, said, "You're tempting me", before declining to comment.
Friends say Ms Beale has observed that it was "interesting that Mr Shorten and Ms Bryce are expecting a baby, while both remain married to other people".
Mr Shorten said it was obviously a happy event for the new couple, but he was not prepared to make any further comment.
He said when it came to protecting his first child from the media, it was "best to start the way you intend to finish".
He said neither he nor Ms Bryce knew the sex of the baby.
Mr Shorten, a former national secretary of the Australian Workers' Union, became the face of the 2006 Beaconsfield mine disaster before entering Parliament at the 2007 election.
The now Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities left his wife, Ms Beale, for the daughter of Kevin Rudd's newly appointed Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, around August last year.
Ms Beale is the daughter of wealthy Melbourne investor and former Liberal frontbencher Julian Beale.
Through her family connections, she was widely seen as assisting Mr Shorten's acceptance by business - an acceptance widely likened to that given another former Melbourne union leader/MP, Bob Hawke.
They have no children.
Ms Beale's father, Julian, is also understood to have been deeply angered by Mr Shorten's treatment of his daughter, telling friends, "She'll never vote Labor again." Mr Beale also declined to comment to
The Sunday Telegraph.
Labor insiders yesterday were surprised to hear of Mr Shorten's news. A spokeswoman for the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, said Ms Bryce had a firm policy of not talking about family matters.
Mr Shorten is understood to have separated from Ms Beale after he told her at an AFL game at the MCG that he didn't "think" he "wanted to be married any more".
A Labor source said at the time Ms Beale was "totally shocked".
Mr Shorten and Ms Bryce had been friends for at least a year before they became officially an item. The pair had dinner together at Quentin Bryce's residence in Brisbane on September 5, 2007, when she was Queensland Governor, according to a Vice-Regal notice in Brisbane's
The Courier Mail newspaper.
"In the evening, the Governor received the call of Ms Chloe Bryce-Parkin and Mr Bill Shorten," the notice states. Mr Shorten thanked his wife, Deborah, in his maiden speech to Parliament in February last year.
"Above all others - and I can say this on Valentine's Day - I thank my wife, Deb Beale, an endlessly intelligent, supportive and loving woman," he said. "I knew this instantly from my first outing, when she agreed to visit a picket line with me."
He also thanked his parents-in-law, Julian and Felicity Beale.
Mr Shorten was one of five MPs invited to attend the September ceremony where Quentin Bryce was sworn in as the 25th Governor-General of Australia.
Chloe Bryce also attended. She was previously married to architect Roger Parkin.
Ms Bryce is a media consultant for Cement Australia.
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