The Shadow Ministry of Simon Crean was the opposition Australian Labor Party shadow ministry of Australia from November 2001 to December 2003, opposing John Howard's Coalition ministry.
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 Leader of the Opposition upon his election as leader of the Australian Labor Party on 11 November 2001, and appointed his first Shadow Cabinet on 22 November.[1]