Fleeing persecution is not a crime. And we do not seek to pander to a noisy, tiny minority who will never embrace modern multicultural Australia. But….

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

To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong….

I want to build a Big Labor party. A party of big ideas. A party which is deeply connected to the community. A party which reflects our diverse natio….

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

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

I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers o….

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 ….

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

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the l….

Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by adminis….

Modern Australian trade unionism and the unionist that I am doesn't rely on a class war view that somehow that the interests of employees and manager….

I'm proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of goi….

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, i….

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….

The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions. I'm proud of being a moderate t….

What I've done as a union leader and what literally thousands of other union representatives do, is make sure that we have co-operation in the workpl….

My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union..

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