Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn't mean that therefore the implication can be made that the recipients are incapable of transacting their interests and their duties towards people any differently.

Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.

I want to build a Big Labor party. A party of big ideas. A party which is deeply connected to the community. A party which reflects our diverse nation.

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.

To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.