Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
Julia GillardOur nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.
Julia GillardAs our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.
Julia Gillard