Hobart - Australia's opposition Labour party yesterday unveiled a policy platform it hopes will win the next election, promising to rebuild health care, boost education spending and modify a goods and services tax.
"In the last two centuries we unlocked the lands and mined the minerals - in this century we must unlock our minds, we must mine our brains," the Labor leader, Mr Kim Beazley, said in an opening speech at the party's national conference. "In domestic and foreign policy, never has the need been greater for leadership and imagination, but we have had retreat, meanness and, of course, an enormously regressive tax," he said.