KEY QUOTES FROM ALP NATIONAL CONFERENCE
"We are ready. Ready to serve, ready to lead and ready to deliver a fair go for Australia." - Labor leader Bill Shorten
"I'll always take a former union leader over a failed advertising executive like Scott Morrison." - Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek
"This government is falling apart in front of our very eyes. Led by a grinning fool in a baseball cap who thinks G20 is a great place to talk about sausages." - ALP president Wayne Swan
"With inequality rising around the world and in Australia, there has never been a more important time for the Labor movement to lead." - Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen
"The Labor Party is not past caring, the trade union movement is not past caring and the Australian people are not past caring." - CFMMEU national secretary Michael O'Connor, referencing Henry Lawson's poem Past Carin'
"I can't wait to get in the trenches next year delegates as we take the fight and give these Tory bastards the beating they so thoroughly deserve." - Rail Tram and Bus Industry Union national secretary Bob Nanva
"When we get criticised for our push into renewable energy and our current prime minister walks into the parliament waving around a lump of coal to demonstrate his point, well then you know it's time for a new prime minister." - South Australian Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas.
Australian Associated Press
