Shorten’s concession was his ‘mea culpa moment’

Sky News contributor Adam Giles says Bill Shorten's media address on Sunday was "clearly a orchestrated campaign of a mea culpa moment."

His comments came after the former Labor leader had taken full responsibility for the election loss to Prime Minister Scott Morrison earlier in the year.

Mr Giles told Sky News host Paul Murray that he thought Mr Shorten's address today may have been done in an attempt for the 52-year-old to make another push to be the leader of the party in the future.

"I think it's a strategy that Bill's employed, and probably the Labor Party, to try and clean himself up and dust himself off and sit back and potentially try again, despite him saying that he's hung up his leadership-running shoes." he said.

"You don't have to be Einstein to see that Anthony Albanese hasn't hit the ground running".

"I don't think that there's any alternate contenders there for leadership down the track for Labor", he said.

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