Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.