The Shadow Ministry of Simon Crean was the opposition Australian Labor Party shadow ministry of

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from November 2001 to December 2003, opposing John Howard's

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. The shadow cabinet is a group of senior Opposition spokespeople who form an alternative Cabinet to the government's, whose members shadow or mark each individual Minister or portfolio of the Government. Simon Crean became

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upon his election as leader of the Australian Labor Party on 11 November 2001, and appointed his first Shadow Cabinet on 23 November.

November 2001 to August 2002

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November 2001 to August 2002

Shadow Outer Ministry

Parliamentary Secretaries

August 2002 to December 2002

Shadow Outer Ministry

Parliamentary Secretaries

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