LABOR'S NATIONAL CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE
KEY ANNOUNCEMENTS
* A $6.6 billion, 10-year plan to build 250,000 new affordable homes, with investors paid $127,500 over 15 years to keep rents 20 per cent below market value
* Give employees the power to chase unpaid superannuation entitlements through the Fair Work Commission or federal court, with a crackdown on employers dodging their obligations
* Make the Fair Work Commission consider pay equity a central objective of the industrial relations system; allow it to order pay increases in undervalued feminised industries
* Aim to get Australia's foreign aid budget towards 0.5 per cent of gross national income
* Expand the Community Sponsored Refugee Scheme from 1000 to 5000 places a year; give $500 million to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees
WHAT THEY SAID
"We are determined, we are united, we are ready." - Labor leader Bill Shorten declares he is ready to be Australia's next prime minister.
"In the history of every political party there is a time for healing." - former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd after being give life membership of the party.
"We can keep the people smugglers out of business but we will most certainly, if elected, keep faith with our enduring Labor values." - Shorten announces the party's new refugee policy.
"Enterprise bargaining is faltering in some parts of the labour market and in other parts failing altogether." - Labor's workplace relations spokesman Brendan O'Connor.
"It proves that they'll do just anything to distract from our conference." - Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek jokes about the timing of Nationals MP Andrew Broad's sex scandal.
"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.
AWKWARD
Refugee and anti-coal mining protesters were dragged from the stage after delaying Bill Shorten's opening address to conference prompting the leader to say: "I've waited for the next election for five years and if I've got to wait a couple more minutes, I just will."
