From every generation and in every part of our nation, in our cities and our regions, from the great grand country towns to new and growing suburbs, battlers and small business people, our farmers and our teachers, we are the party for first Australians and all those who have followed from every faith and every nation and every tradition.

We are the party for people who love each other and deserve the right to get married. We are, we are the party for women seeking equal opportunity at work. And apprentices looking for a start and older workers looking for a new start. We are the party that includes every citizen of the great Australian aspiration for the fair go all round.

And we are the party for the people whose voices all too often go unheard. And I in particular tonight, I say to all those Australians who feel marginalised and forgotten, alienated and excluded, and to all those Australians who feel that politics as usual simply doesn’t work for them: Labor will not leave you behind. We will not let you down.