The PM AND Lappy, page-46

Well actually Gillard could certainly be described as aggressive to the point of being in your face far more than the rather common sense and lower-key Tony Abbott..

Gough Whitlam talked a good game but was like most people sprung from the labor party, completely incompetent...

Don Dunstan was certainly flamboyant...

Paul Keating had a nasty mouth, a confrontational in-your-face aggressive style and little else...

Shorten is not any sort of leader by any stretch of the imagination and the union-bosses will almost certainly dump him as the election draws near...
He seems to be a place-holder for the union-bosses while they plot some new underhanded strategy to steal an election and dupe the low-IQ labor voting base into once again voting for them...