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News.com.au | News Online from Australia and the World | NewsComAu Midwinter Ball: Margie Abbott and Chloe Bryce's fashion collision Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Politicians step out for Midwinter Ball The Midwinter Ball sees the country's most senior politicians don bow ties and diamond earrings for the annual fundraising event. Midwinter Ball: Best and worst dressed The Prime Minister may have thanked the ABC for The Killing Season but he and his parliamentarian colleagues slayed fashion at this year's Midwinter Ball. For the first time in the fundraising event's 16-year history there was minimal fashion victim carnage. Fashion clash: Chloe Bryce, left, and Margie Abbott. However Margie Abbott and Chloe Bryce, wife of Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, made an unfortunate fashion faux pas with both wearing similar black asymmetric one-shoulder constructions. Mrs Abbott opted for a long-sleeve and warmer jersey fabric, while Ms Bryce donned raw silk, ruched at the shoulder, and broke up her look with a hot pink fur stole and box clutch.