(2008) Draft Letter to the National Secretary of the ALP re NSW Electricity Privatisation
This letter, never sent, was emailed to Premier Morris Iemma and Attorney General John Hatzistergos, dated 2 May 2008. John McCarthy QC helped me on the draft.
(2008) Letter to NSW ALP Caucus re Privatisation
Letter written by Neville Wran, Barrie Unsworth, Bob Carr, John MacBean and myself, dated 5 May 2008, and circulated to NSW members of the parliamentary Labor Party and more widely.
(2008) The McKell Model
The 1930s was a decade of ALP splits and rancorous factional warfare, which made the ALP unelectable. In the 1930s Labor lost three NSW State elections and helped lose the three Federal elections held in that decade. In 1939 Conference returned to the parliamentary party the right to elect its leader.