I believed in the goodness of the Australian people; I believed they did not want to be attacking each other, and from those thoughts, I got the idea of Reconciliation in the campaign slogan and of turning this into something practical by calling a summit to bring representatives of all sections of society together, from the wealthiest to the poor.

If elected, Bill Shorten and his team would hit the ground running, implementing Labor's plans and setting the nation up for a stronger economic future.

Poor quality of representatives... is not a purely Australian phenomenon - it's a worldwide phenomenon.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.