Labor leaders Bill Shorten and Daniel Andrews made renewed calls to the party's traditional base at the Victorian state conference as both prepare to fight elections this year.
Mr Andrews' address on Saturday was about appealing to Labor's base and the powerful trade unions after a first term full of progressive-left policies like voluntary assisted dying and a safe injecting room trial.
He announced employers could be locked up over worker deaths and wage rip-offs if Victoria's Labor government is re-elected, under an election pitch designed to appeal to the blue-collar base.
Mr Shorten fired up the crowd on Sunday, declaring Labor was the party to give ordinary working people and again knocked the Turnbull government's tax plan.
"I am damn sure Australians do not want to give a $17 billion tax cut to the big banks which have been proven, have been demonstrated to be ripping off consumers," Mr Shorten said.
"I actually think the average Australian wants to see their scarce taxpayer dollars invested in hospitals, reinvested in schools."
He will use the upcoming campaigns for the Super Saturday of by-elections to run Labor's likely platform for the next federal election due within the year.
"We choose to fight for everyday people, working-class people, middle-class people, the people who want to work, who are working, who have worked in their life," he said.
"We stand for the people who don't have the vested interests, that is the people we choose."
The conference had also been expected to debate several issues, including changing the date of Australia Day, but they were dropped at the last moment.
The motions - including calls for federal Labor to recognise Palestine as a state, end live exports of all animals and not just sheep and shut down offshore detention camps - were not debated at the weekend's conference but deterred to the party's administrate committee.
