Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level. Bill Shorten More Quotes by Bill Shorten More Quotes From Bill Shorten Frolicking on Christmas Island, what a waste of money. Bill Shorten top-news Australians have made it clear, with the representatives they have selected, that they expect us to work together, i pledge, and I have indicated to Mr Turnbull, that where there is common ground, we work very hard to accomplish it. Bill Shorten top-news He's going to be hostage to the right wing of his party and have to promote more of the Abbott supporters into his government, which will lead to greater division and instability. Bill Shorten world 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. Bill Shorten best future family people 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. Bill Shorten treat judge understand rainbow If we are strategic, if we are smart, Australia can power our future prosperity with solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal energy. Bill Shorten future smart power wind We have to become a learning society, committed to quality education from early childhood right through to re-training in later life. Bill Shorten childhood learning education life 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. Bill Shorten view will disability body 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. Bill Shorten down gay important people Anyone who's been a teenager, or raised one, knows growing up is hard. Kids can be cruel to their peers, and many young people go through tough times and experience low moments. Bill Shorten tough-times tough experience people We all have choices in history. Some are more important than others. Bill Shorten some important choices history Labor must work harder to attract and retain members. The party should be cheaper to join with discounted rates available for union members as well as for students, pensioners, and people out of work. Bill Shorten party students work people If I am elected leader, my shadow opposition team will actively incorporate the policy contributions of all our members by instituting policy action committees as recommend by the 2010 National Review. Bill Shorten i-am shadow team leader Poverty wastes people; it wastes opportunity. Bill Shorten wastes poverty opportunity people My father left school at 14 and became a fitter. He didn't want to be at school. Bill Shorten left want father school Both my parents were far smarter than the opportunities they had. Bill Shorten far than opportunities parents 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. Bill Shorten you poverty society people Both casual, unthinking discrimination and deliberate, malicious homophobia erode self-confidence and undermine mental health. Both are far too common, not just in our schoolyards or online but in sporting clubs, in the outer and even in our national parliament. Bill Shorten self-confidence discrimination health The appalling rate of incarceration among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples demands we create justice targets under the Closing the Gap framework. Bill Shorten create incarceration closing justice 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. Bill Shorten disability prison justice people
