Is Bill Shorten the Brendan Nelson of the Labor Party? Brendan Nelson was the unlikely choice to lead the Liberal Party after the defeat of the Howard government in 2007.
Back then, Kevin07 was the most popular prime minister in the history of the universe and few of the those who voted for Nelson in the Liberal Party leadership ballot thought Nelson had any chance of surviving in the position long enough to take the coalition to the next election, let alone lead it to victory.