Speeches & Opinion: Archive by Date

July 2008

• Members and families first
• Give workers a voice in climate change solutions

June 2008

• Time to energise the Bush

May 2008

• Unions must stop opposing work schemes

April 2008

• Time to pump life into the nation's engine rooms
• AWU stands up for Israel's sovereign rights

February 2008

• There is a super way out of Labor's tax cut dilemma
• Steel needs vision for its long-term future

January 2008

• Rural Jobs Push - a National Priority
• Transcript from the National Press Club, Canberra, January 30 2008

December 2007

• AWU mates give Bill Shorten a hearty good-bye as he moves to Canberra

July 2007

• Bosses Must Pay The Price For Staff

May 2007

• Nothing 'Fair' About This Test
• Deep Down Agreement

April 2007

• Smart Strategy Will Build A Better Future

March 2007

• How To Fix the Water Crisis - Lay A Pipe Across Victoria

February 2007

• Busting The Water Myths
• National Effort Can Solve Water Shortage
• Changing With The Times
• Manufacturing Vital To Our Future
• A Brown Union Thanks Professor Tim Flannery
• 2007 Biennial Australian Workers' Union National Conference
• Why Is Diazinon Still On The Market?

December 2006

• Our Car Industry Needs A Hybrid Drive If It Wants To Thrive

November 2006

• The New Social Capital:helping people and communities plan for 100 years of life
• Jobs Threat If Libs Win
• Ted's full of gas
• Jockeys on Short Odds
• It's time for experience

October 2006

• Technical Education A Priority
• What kind of Australia do we want?
• We Have Reached A Tipping Point - Let's Tip Out John Howard

August 2006

• Speech to West Australian Police Union Rally

July 2006

• The Politics of Hope

May 2006

• Beaconsfield Mine Rescue

March 2006

• Shorten Amongst New Generation of ALP Candidates

February 2006

• Overpaid CEOs: What they really earn
• The AWU's Submission To Award Review Taskforce

January 2006

• Nuclear Energy and Greenhouse - Implications for Australia

December 2005

• ALP To The Fore, Duel The Dual System

November 2005

• Bill Shorten on people movement against Howard Government's IR changes
• AWU's Verbal Submission to Senate Inquiry into 'Work Choices'
• TV Debate on Howard Government's Workplace Changes

October 2005

• Spin Can't Hide Attack on Families

September 2005

• Beyond The Next Election - Policy Challenges For Australia's Future Workforce

August 2005

• Taxed to a standstill
• Bill Shorten on speculation he will move to federal politics

July 2005

• Williamtown Dispute Shows Howard's Way
• Federal Labor must be more concerned with kicking goals
• Bill Shorten Interview with Laurie Oakes
• Shorten, Beattie discuss future of Labor and union movement

June 2005

• Demanding the rights to which Australians are entitled
• Bill Shorten debates Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews
• IR changes diversion from real need to generate growth
• Meet the Press interview with Bill Shorten

May 2005

• Howard's political suicide note
• Why $6 is an insult to workers
• This one's for mugs, not steelworkers

April 2005

• An alternative vision for Australia

March 2005

• Sunday Sunrise Interview with Bill Shorten

February 2005

• Fighting against the odds - 2005 AWU National Conference

November 2004

• BlueScope Steel Ltd Annual General Meeting
• Labor warned not to forget taxpayers

October 2004

• Making sense of the election
• Hey biggest spender, voters not that stupid

September 2004

• Rates scare campaign loses its interest
• Labor builds on positives
• Terror blast likely to benefit Coalition
• Voters tired of all the buck-passing

August 2004

• Wayne Hanson's Greater South Australian Branch Delegates Conference Address

June 2004

• Big Brother is no substitute for real relationships at work
• With one hand tied behind their back
• Stop Electrolux’s job-killing rampage

May 2004

• Submission to the Senate Building & Construction Industry Inquiry

April 2004

• Bill Shorten's Testimony to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations

February 2004

• AWU Submission to the ACCC on the proposed Adeliade Brighton & Boral merger
• AWU Submission to the National Drought Policy Review

November 2003

• AWU Submission to the Inquiry into the CLERP 9 Reforms

October 2003

• William Guthrie Spence: Nation Builder, Labour Leader, Worker

September 2003

• Bill Shorten's Address to the Pan Pharmaceuticals Creditors' Meeting
• Lasseter's Last Ride

August 2003

• Pan Pharmaceuticals CEO Faces Legal Challenge

May 2003

• Two’s a Party, Three’s a Crowd: Third Party Intervention in IR
• When Workers are treated like canaries

April 2003

• Adding insult to injury

February 2003

• One day longer…

July 2002

• Saving Australian Shipping Jobs
• Changing tactics for changing times

June 2002

• Insiders

April 2002

• Rural Press Club Address 2002
• Unfair Dismissal laws: Monster or Mouse?

March 2002

• Show a steel will and team spirit
• Working hard to make work fair

February 2002

• Can Labour Win? New Directions for an old union

December 2001

• To help Ansett? Or not to help?

November 2001

• Never forget the real heroes of racing