Chloe Shorten

Chloe Shorten
Chloe Shorten, 2015
Born	Chloe Bryce 1971 (age 45–46) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Residence	Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia
Education	Indooroopilly State High School Somerville House School
Alma mater	Deakin University University of Queensland
Spouse(s)	Roger Parkin (m. 1997; div. 2009) Bill Shorten (m. 2009)
Children	3
Parent(s)	Michael Bryce Quentin Strachan

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.

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.

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.