Given the support Shearer's rival, David Cunliffe, gathered on the ground and the honourable way the contest was held, Shearer has done the bare minimum to mend fences.
Only two of Labour's eight front benchers supported Cunliffe - the man himself and his deputy running mate, Nanaia Mahuta. Only five in the shadow cabinet voted for Cunliffe - Cunliffe himself, Mahuta, Lianne Dalziel, Charles Chauvel and Su'a William Sio.
The decision to shut out Cunliffe's people from the shadow cabinet says either that Shearer is punishing Cunliffe's supporters, or that Cunliffe's supporters aren't as clever as his, or that he had no supporters.
Former leader Phil Goff and former deputy Annette King could have moved out of the top 20 altogether to make more room in the shadow cabinet.
Instead they have been given almost front row of the circle - sitting together in a prime spot in the second row.
Cunliffe has been taken down a peg or two from No 3 to No 5. There was talk last week that Shearer wanted to offer Cunliffe as low as eight - speculation fuelled no doubt to encourage Cunliffe to view No 5 as acceptable.
He was also tipped to take environment but with his wife being an environmental lawyer, Cunliffe was able to refuse that as inappropriate.
Cunliffe is leap-frogged by one-term MP Jacinda Ardern.
Galling as that might be to someone with Cunliffe's pride, the symbolism of having the new faces of the party in the top four places, including Ardern, outweighed the insult.
Being supplanted in finance by David Parker was predictable.
Parker knows the portfolio backwards because he was behind much of the policy shifts in Labour over the past 18 months including monetary policy, a capital gains tax and raising the age of superannuation over time to 67.
Whether those economic policies will get the thorough review promised with their author now in the post is another matter.
