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I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.

There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.

In 26 years of delivering babies, I've always been interested in government and the state of the union.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for doing that. We are sensitive to the other priorities we've got as a nation and in the world, but in time the country will head in that direction.