I am pleased and honoured to be re-appointed to Labor's Shadow Ministry today in the Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio.
I look forward to continuing to advance the interests of working Australians as part of a united, strong and diverse Shadow Ministry under the leadership of Bill Shorten.
As the Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace and Relations I will continue to hold the Government to account for their abject failure to deliver a real plan for Australian jobs.
In their past term in government, the Liberal agenda was to attack wages and conditions of employment – and they still want to cut penalty rates and they still want young people doing exploitative internships instead of getting real jobs.
Labor will always be the party of jobs and will work for decent secure jobs for all Australians.
Unlike the Liberals, Labor won't engage in a race to the bottom on wages and conditions. Labor will invest in the high-skilled, high-wage, decent jobs of the future.