Original upload date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 01:46:38 GMT
Speech given by Stephen Jones MP at the Sydney Institute on 2 September 2013 on the topic: Australia -- Where to in the next decade? The View from Generation X.
In this speech, Stephen identifies thr
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ee areas where Labor needs to engage in the future:
First, our region - the Asia Pacific is where our economic, cultural and security will be built on enduring and reciprocal relationships which focus on long term mutual benefits, not short term opportunism.
Secondly, Labor's relationship with small business which can and should transcend the campaign-driven transactional exchange of request and policy concession.
Labor was born of the aspiration of working people -- our name reflects that. But our Party needs to recognise that the way we work has changed
Thirdly, Labor should engage with progressive entrepreneurs - those who work in business who believe in generating social wealth, yet who are appalled by the intellectual paucity of Australia's political debate;