Grattan on Friday: One Nation’s spectre hangs over Labor national conference

Bill Kelty has been a member of the Labor Party since 1964 but he is not among the hundred of delegates at the party’s national conference in Adelaide. If he were, maybe 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. Kelty, giving evidence to a parliamentary committee regarding a…