FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 25
WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT:
*Its vision for Australia should it get elected into office on May 18, including
*New policy announcements on youth mental health, big corporations, upgrades to public hospital emergency departments and a tax break for small businesses.
WHO WAS THERE
* About 500 party members
* Former Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and Paul Keating
* Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and her ministers, former federal Labor leader Bill Hayden, Northern Territory's Chief Minister Andrew Barr, South Australian opposition leader Peter Malinauskas.
* Former federal Labor leader Bill Hayden
* Ovarian cancer sufferer Kirsten Larsen
* Chloe Shorten and children Rupert, Georgette and Clementine
THEY SAID WHAT?
"Chloe, I love you, and I'm sure that everyone here and across Australia can understand why I'm happy to be known as Chloe Shorten's husband." - Bill Shorten
"He's a gift isn't he." - Penny Wong referring to Barnaby Joyce.
"They are small men, small men with small ideas." - Penny Wong talking about the Coalition.
"When Bill became our leader back in 2013, it was clear what we needed - unity and discipline." - Tanya Plibersek.
"Justice can be delivered and must be pursued." - Patrick Dodson on Indigenous recognition
"Coal is a fossil. The Prime Minister is a fossil." - Paul Keating
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED?
*Bill Shorten entered the room to Paul Kelly's 'From Little Things Big Things Grow', just minutes after the man himself played at an anti-Adani rally outside Parliament House in Canberra.
*Mr Shorten then exited the room to the soundtrack of Jimmy Barnes' 'No Second Prize'.
