I struggle to understand how you think that pulling both sides of the divide together for constructive debate is a bad thing.
I understand your struggle when compared to Hawke's summit. Whereas now:
- Unions represent less than 15% of the workforce yet command 23% of summit delegates.
- Six Labor premiers yet only 2 Liberals.
- Two left wing think tanks yet no conservative ones
- No bank chiefs invited but rather ex Labor premier Anna Bligh as head of bankers assoc.
- two union-linked super funds run by Nicola Roxon and the president of ACTU
- two Human rights council delegates, three from Big Welfare, one from single mothers, a token Ethnic council, an Equally rights advocate, six from indigenous groups, plus AOTY Dylan Alcott. Jr
- the battalion of global warming activists, academics and green energy carpetbaggers.
-or the missing small business reps covering 7.2m workers.
Nup this isn't a consensus summit a la Hawke but rather an agenda driven summit. And Albo is no Hawke. A better comparison would be Rudd's 2020 summit. A Labor love in.
