OPINION | Bill Shorten cured my chronic insomnia, made me rich and then took it away

By Mark Bode
January 28 2019 - 7:00am
PORTRAIT OF A SLEEPING PILL: "Shorten had left the stage and people were filing out of the hall. I yawned like a lion and rubbed my eyes hard."
PORTRAIT OF A SLEEPING PILL: "Shorten had left the stage and people were filing out of the hall. I yawned like a lion and rubbed my eyes hard."

The face staring back at me in the mirror was the face of a man who had not slept properly for months. I splashed water on that desolate visage, prayed to a God I didn’t believe in and left the bathroom.

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