Full Name Chloe Bryce Children 3 | Nationality Australian | |
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Books Take Heart: A Story for Modern Stepfamilies Parents Quentin Bryce, Michael Bryce Siblings Tom Bryce, Revy Bryce-Browning, Rupert Bryce, Jack Bryce Similar Bill Shorten, Quentin Bryce, Michael Bryce, Lucy Turnbull, Tanya Plibersek | ||
Chloe Shorten (née Bryce) is an Australian corporate affairs specialist, a member of the Burnet Institute's Engagement Committee and Strategic Advisor for their Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Program, and wife of Opposition leader Bill Shorten.
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Early life and education
Shorten was born in Brisbane in 1971 as the fourth of five children. Her mother is Dame Quentin Bryce who was the Governor General of Australia and her father is Michael Bryce. She attended Ironside State School, Somerville House and Indooroopilly State High School. After high school, she joined the Sunday Mail in Brisbane as a copygirl, and started studying journalism remotely through Deakin University in Victoria, where she went on to get her degree in communications. She started, but did not complete, an MBA at the University of Queensland.
Career
Shorten is a former newspaper and magazine journalist.
In 2009, Shorten was working as a media consultant for Cement Australia. From 2014 until 2016 she worked in Perth as Head of Corporate Affairs at engineering services company Calibre. She resigned to spend more time with her husband on the election campaign trail.
Shorten describes herself as passionate about ending family violence. She is an Ambassador for the Victorian Government’s Victoria Against Violence campaign. Shorten was friends with Allison Baden-Clay and spoke out against the downgrading of her husband's conviction from murder to manslaughter. She is a strategic advisor for the Burnet Institute in Papua New Guinea.
Personal life
Shorten was married to architect Roger Parkin until 2009 and has two children with him. She met Bill Shorten in 2007, when she was working in corporate relations in the resource industry and he was the Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services in the Rudd Government. She moved to Melbourne when she married Shorten in 2009 and their daughter, Clementine, was born. They live in Moonee Ponds with her children from her previous marriage, Rupert and Georgette.
