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Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's 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.
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.
Safe Schools has been labelled a lot of things: Marxism, cultural relativism, 'grooming,' and part of something called the 'rainbow ideology.' But Safe Schools is not about imposing an ideology or an 'ism.' It's about teaching our kids to treat everyone equally, to understand rather than judge.
Safe Schools lets young people who identify as gay know that they have every right to be accepted and respected for who they are. We should never underestimate how important this message is - or the consequences of trying to shout it down.
The appalling rate of incarceration among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples demands we create justice targets under the Closing the Gap framework.
There are far too many people in prison with poorly understood disability, particularly cognitive and mental disabilities. We cannot tolerate a system that just processes people rather than a system that fairly administers justice.
There are good reasons to push for more Indigenous Labor MPs, not just on equity but also for what they can contribute to Labor.
There is no doubt our earth is warming and our seas rising - or that humankind is the cause. There is no evidence to refute this - or any genuine scientific counterargument in the climate change debate.
This is what I think about poverty: why waste the potential of people? You never know what you've got going in society unless you give people a chance.
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.
We all have choices in history. Some are more important than others.
We cannot let it be said of modern Australia that the colour of your skin determines whether or not you end up in jail.
We commissioned an independent statutory economic body - the Productivity Commission - to review the possibility of funding a disability scheme. The commission returned with a view that it could. Then it becomes an issue of national will.
We should never seek to compete with economies in our region by cutting pay and conditions - that's a race to the bottom we can't win.
We will always be a fair wage nation in a low wage region.
When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
When someone has found not just another person they can live with but a person they can't live without, they should have an equal right to the true qualities of a bond that runs deeper than any law.
Workplace relations is about getting the best out of people. An argument which says that the only way we can compete with other nations in the world is engaging in a race to the bottom in terms of pay rates, penalty rates, protections on rosters, getting rid of family friendly provisions - that is not Australia's future.
Anything that's got Stephan Elliott directing it is going to be interesting, to say the least.
I have a reputation for being pretty much of a wild man.
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