Letter

In response to The facts about Australia's income tax system

Minns and social and economic conservatism

This article delivers a harpoon to the whale of misinformation that underlies the comments of Minns. Why is that so. Minns has a record, as a supposedly Labor Premier, of leaning strongly to the very conservative side of Catholicism on a range of social and economic issues. His stands on freedom of speech, gender issues, the levelling effects of taxation and racial politics are all in the zone that would be expected of those occupying the more conservative ranks of the Coalition. That is exemplary of the gradual but consistent drift of the Labor Party to the right of the political spectrum. The great figures of Labor such as Whitlam, Keating, Dunstan, Wran and Uren would find the modern Labor Party an uncomfortable fit!!!

— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041