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

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.

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

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

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.

When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.