Last week’s Special National Conference of the ALP – hailed in the press as “the Crean revolution”, in which the Labor Party was “forced” to jettison much of its old-guard culture – was largely window-dressing, which will have no long-term impact.It was significant that the Secretary of the NSW Labor Council, John Robertson, pointed out that reducing union representation from 60 per cent to 50 per cent “would not deliver one extra vote at the election”.He correctly pointed out that the rule chan…
