Labor leader Bill Shorten has refuted an allegation of sexual assault.
Bill Shorten says a police investigation into a rape allegation against him have been dropped. Source: News Corp Australia
COMMENT: MOST voters were unaware of it but for all his time as Opposition Leader, Bill Shorten has been living under one of the most harmful of allegations.
The allegation was rape — said to have been committed in the 1980s.
The Labor chief today took the hazardous step of publicly acknowledging an allegation had been made against him, now that a 10-month police investigation has resulted in no charges being laid.
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If he hadn't faced the media, it is likely someone else would do it for him — possibly during the next election campaign.
Mr Shorten also would have been aware the unnamed woman who made the complaint against him might soon tell her side of the story publicly.
And no doubt there was a simple yet huge sense of relief he wanted to express. Mr Shorten, wife Chloe, mother-in-law Dame Quentin Bryce and other family members are likely to have also carried this burden.
While most voters were not aware of the allegation, it was common currency within the nether world of the blogosphere and social media where it was often treated as proven.
Commentators unafraid of defamation action used social media to demand action against "the senior Labor figure" involved.
Many of these people will not relent despite Mr Shorten being cleared, but his statement today means their sniping will have little impact.
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