To all HC aficionados I say be patient and don't be too quick to condemn Mr Shorten. By the time his memoirs are published the airbrush will have done its work and his his faults will be described as mere folly and he will come out as another ALP hero. In RJL Hawke's memoirs readers of Mr Hawke's mighty tome had to wait until page 13 before finding out how he saved the world from disaster.
