Bill Kelty has been a member of the Labor Party since 1964 but he is not among the hundreds of delegates at the party’s national conference in Adelaide. If he were, the conference’s Thursday debate on the economy might have seen a touch of fire.
Earlier in the week, Kelty – a central player in the union movement’s key role in the Hawke-Keating economic reforms – unloaded with an acerbic critique of Australia’s situation.
