Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has shared his vision for a prosperous, fairer and clever Australia at the Victorian Labor conference.
Mr Shorten called for "our tribe, our movement, we come together to share our views, to debate, to set our direction - and we do it in the open".
He told the party faithful on Sunday he wanted a prosperous economy, a clever and fairer Australia which invested in education, skills and training, and a decent wage.
"Governments of all persuasions have a generational transaction. It is the job of every generation to pass on a better standard of living, to pass on better conditions to the next generation," he said.
"We are seeing a generational contract being ripped up by Mr Turnbull and his Liberal Party."
Mr Shorten said he wanted Australia to have the world's best healthcare, schools, infrastructure and best rates of pay and strongest minimum wage safety net in the world.
"And we want an Australia where when people want to join a union they can, and unions are free to organise, to make sure people get a fair go at work," he said.
"And I promise, that no matter what the slander, what the vilification of the anti-union rhetoric of the government, we're not going to give up on the fight for fairness in Australian workplaces."
He spruiked Labor's policies including its fight for Medicare, its desire to stop any move to privatise vocational education, and said the party would reform negative gearing and capital gains tax concession.
But he slammed the Liberal federal budget's "precious little hope for most people".
Mr Shorten also called for the party to pre-select and elect more indigenous Australians to parliament.
