AS DEPUTY prime minister and Gillard government treasurer, Wayne Swan had the audacity to raise fairness in our society as a matter for political discussion. For his trouble Swan found conservative media likening him to a Marxist and preferring to categorise any mention of equity as "waging class war". Had he stayed in office, Swan would have found ample ammunition for the war in a new book, Battlers and Billionaires, by Labor backbencher Andrew Leigh. Regrettably, equity is now unlikely to be an issue in the campaign. To appease conservative forces, resurrected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told the National Press Club, at his first address after taking the job, "I have never believed in class...
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