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

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labors monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.

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.

What I believe to be every Australian's right - a good, safe job with proper pay and conditions.

I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.

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.

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