Mullen's choices

In late November 2014, illness claimed the life of Geoff Mullen, long-time letter writer to the ‘Letters to the Editor’ page of the Sydney Morning Herald. For years the ‘Letters to the Editor’ section of newspapers had been his public forum, and the Herald published his ‘last hurrah’ the day before his death. Dictated from his deathbed, the letter concerned wealth and income inequality, ending with the caution: “Remember that the enemies of progress are always on the attack”.