STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS

Mr GOSLING (Solomon) (13:55): The great promise of Australian egalitarianism is that everyone gets a fair chance to succeed. Everyone has the chance to go further and dream of something better. It is the apprentice who becomes the tradie who later starts a business and the entrepreneur who has an idea, takes a risk and creates jobs.

It is the nurse who studies after a long shift, the farmer who rises before dawn and the young Australian who believes they can create something amazing. Social justice means opening doors, giving every Australian a fair chance to learn, to work, to build and to succeed. This is the ambition behind Labor's pro-aspiration agenda.

Fee-free TAFE and expanded apprenticeships, the National Reconstruction Fund investing in Australian businesses and a Future Made in Australia are backing our workers and backing our innovators and entrepreneurs to build the industries of tomorrow. When a business succeeds, it not only creates wealth; it creates jobs, skills, apprenticeships and opportunity—work, build, create, innovate.

The person who dreams bigger does not diminish the rest of us. They expand our idea of what is possible. My message to our young leaders here today is to not cut down the tall poppies.

Grow your own. Let the tall poppies grow.