The faceless men win. [View all]

Bill Shorten, one of the so-called faceless men who engineered Julia Gillard's leadership coup last year, is the biggest winner in her ministerial reshuffle today.

Mr Shorten will move into Cabinet, shifting from Assistant Treasurer into the key Workplace Relations portfolio, with another "faceless man", Mark Arbib, becoming Assistant Treasurer and Small Business Minister.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-12/gillard-announces-cabinet-reshuffle/3726500


Bill Shorten is a very capable man, and very ambitious, but he's only been in Parliament for two minutes, and it looks very much a reward for engineering the assassination of Kevin Rudd. As for Arbib - next election, I'm going to tick every box in the Senate ballot and put Mark Arbib last - even behind the Shooters or any other nutters who are running. He does not deserve to be placed so high; there are many more capable people who've served longer than he. He is a treacherous scumbag.