Hitler reacts to the 2010 Australian Election result. Bill Shorten to wed Chloe Bryce, Governor-General's daughter. Low-key ...
Bill Shorten and Chloe Bryce. Source: The Sunday Telegraph THE man who would be prime minister, Bill Shorten, will today marry his vice-regal new love in an intimate garden ceremony. It is understood that the former union leader and Chloe Bryce, the daughter of Governor-General Quentin Bryce, will wed in their Melbourne home. They have chosen a low-key ceremony followed by a reception also at the house. The pair are believed to have gotten together in 2008, when Mr Shorten left his wife Deborah Beale - another blue-blood woman, whose father was the wealthy Liberal MP Julian Beale. The couple are expecting their first child in January. Both were reported as being married to other people just four months ago, indicating they have recently divorced former partners.
Ms Bryce was married to architect Roger Parkin and has two children by him. Joe Hildebrand's Locked and Loaded in Sydney Confidential. Gillard gets personal in Women's Weekly 'free kick'. Julia Gillard moves to limit fallout from leak on paid parental leave and pension rise. Julia Gillard today defends herself against Labor leaks - and appears in the Women's Weekly.
Pictures: AWW, Kym Smith Source: The Australian JULIA Gillard has moved to get her campaign back on track, confronting damaging allegations that she opposed key initiatives of paid parental leave and pension rises. The Prime Minister has admitted questioning the affordability of the paid parental leave scheme and pension increase in cabinet but was adamant that she always supported the measures. Ms Gillard called a media conference this morning to address a report by the Nine Network's Laurie Oakes last night, allegedly based on a leak out of cabinet, that she opposed the iconic measures. The allegations have had senior Labor figures in damage control this morning, as they come at a crucial point during the election campaign and are the third such high level leak from within the Labor cabinet in recent weeks.
"Frankly, I believe that analysis is completely ridiculous and absurd.'' Minimal airbrushing on Julia Gillard photos, says Weekly. JULIA Gillard today made her appearance on the cover of The Australian Women's Weekly, and the immediate reaction was that she looks great.
So great, in fact, that it raises the obvious question: Has the prime minister benefited from some artful airbrushing? The answer, says Weekly editor-in-chief Helen McCabe, is no. And yes. McCabe says some Photoshopping has been done on the pictures run inside the magazine, including digitally raising the neckline of a camisole top Gillard was given to wear for the photo shoot which didn't fit properly. However, she says the cover shot has not been digitally altered at all, except for being put through the normal "colour correction'' process which is used on almost all magazine images to even out skin tones. "You can see the cover photo hasn't been touched: You can see every wrinkle and the pores on the top of her face,'' McCabe says.
"In fact when I saw the photos I thought . . . maybe I should (retouch them).