Bill Shorten Quotes

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Bill Shorten

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 12, 1967

Both my parents were far smarter than the opportunities they had.

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We have to become a learning society, committed to quality education from early childhood right through to re-training in later life.

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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.

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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.

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I believe marriage equality is a simple change that sends a powerful message. It is a chance for us to say, as a nation, to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex Australians: your love is equal under the law.

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My father left school at 14 and became a fitter. He didn't want to be at school.

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Australia's economic future depends upon getting smarter. This means investing in the skills and knowledge of our workforce.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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We cannot let it be said of modern Australia that the colour of your skin determines whether or not you end up in jail.

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