Politician trumpets his vision for Australia at a pub, and the crowd goes wild

This video is a display of the things Australian politics is built on: the passion, the pub and the people.

On Saturday night, Australia’s Opposition leader Bill Shorten made an impassioned speech to supporters in a Sydney watering hole. Labor supporter, Tim Van Der Laan, posted the show stopper to his Facebook account

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Yeah so this happened

Posted by Tim Van Der Laan on Sunday, July 5, 2015

To loud cheers of “We love you, Bill!” and “We want Bill,” Shorten stood in the middle of the boozy crowd and spoke of the country he envisaged — from marriage equality to affordable education Read more…

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