In March 2012, we saw the most active viral social media campaign of all time in the form of KONY 2012, a 27-minute video highlighting atrocities perpetrated in central Africa by the Lord’s Resistance Army, a guerrilla group led by the notorious Joseph Kony.

- By Michael Buckland

When the Labor government referred the investigation of a no-fault insurance scheme for disability care and support to the Productivity Commission in 2010, the most significant change for people living with disabilities in several generations was about to take place.

- By Prue Car

Labor’s leadership opportunity defined through vision, engagement and action.

- By Marcus Ehrlich

Below is an edited extract of the speech given on 19 February 2013 by Bill Shorten MP, Member for Maribyrnong, Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation and Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations to the 2013 Australian Workers’ Union National Conference on the Gold Coast, Queensland.

- By Bill Shorten, MP for Maribyrnong

Book Review: Don’t Go Back to Where You Came

From: Why Multiculturalism Works

Tim Soutphommasane (newsouthbooks, 2012)

By Tim Watts, MP for Gellibrand

“The answer is to rely on youth — not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. It is a revolutionary world that we all live in; and thus, it is the young people who must take the lead”

Senator Robert Kennedy, Day of Affirmation Address, 1966.

By Dominic Ofner, President of NSW Young Labor