Bill Shorten has called out the 'dysfunctional' and 'feuding' Royal family and questioned why Australia is yet to be made a republic.
The Government Services Minister gave his two cents on the Royals following Prince Harry's bombshell interviews with ITV, Good Morning America and 60 Minutes, where he opened fire on William, Kate and his father's wife Camilla.
'It's a shame to see a family bust up but perhaps at the deepest level why do we need to keep borrowing a dysfunctional British family to be the Head of State of Australia?' he told the Today Show on Tuesday morning.
Mr Shorten said the details divulged by Harry made it seem like viewers were sitting in a 'ringside seat of a family bust up'.
'To me it just shows there's a lot of damage and trauma but at another level this is just family gossip,' he said.
'And it reminds me that this family are the Head of State of Australia so it really puts a question mark around our government structures where we've got a feuding family on the other side of the world who seem to really not like each other very much - they're actually the Head of Australia.'
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