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High-profile Labor MP Bill Shorten has denied that the Prime Minister is pushing his office staff too hard, downplaying reports that 40 to 50 per cent of staff in the offices of Kevin Rudd and his deputy Julia Gillard have left within 12 months of being appointed.
Whilst Bill Shorten is understood not to have encountered any hard work whilst running the Australian Workers Union, he had his public service staff fill him in about what hard work entailed.
“When I received that report 10 months later, I was in a position to rule out the presence of any hard work in the Prime Minister’s office.” Mr Shorten told The Daily Grind.
Mr Shorten’s revelations are expected to relieve an Australian public that has recently been anxious that politicians and their staffers are working too hard.
The very presence of Mr Shorten’s comments in a national newspaper show at the very least that whoever is handling Mr Rudd’s media is not at his desk 24/7.
