Letter

In response to The Labor Party has lost its way

RESPONSE TO KELTY ON THE ALP

I wouldn’t be holding Kelty, one of the architects of the Accord, up as a model of how a Labor pollie or unionist should be.

He sets out a centrist agenda but criticises the current centrists for doing it their way.

He says “We need a Labor Party agenda in which the big issues are confronted. " Nice , but the devil is in the detail.

No mention of a wages policy except in the context of “a bargaining framework that is about training, productivity and fairness”. Hmmmm I wonder if that would have broken through the wages caps in the NSW Public Service that the NSW public sector unions are currently smashing..

And “the days of free money are over” . When were those days Bill? Remind me.

— Jennifer Haines from Glossodia