Inequality is one of the Left's pet obsessions. I am prepared to go further and suggest that the intensity of this obsession has become pathological. I have yet to meet a journalist under fifty who does not think there is something unjust about the 'distribution' of wealth and income in Australia.
Younger journalists are positively outraged at the 'social injustice' of it all.
This is not to say that everyone who subscribes to what is euphemistically called redistribution is driven by base instincts. Peter Walsh, former Labour minister for finance, is a distributionist who is motivated by what he thinks is a sense of 'social justice'. To those like him there is something genuinely unjust about some people earning vastly more than others or even, perhaps, inheriting 'huge' fortunes. The striking thing about distributionists is that there is absolutely no intellectual substance to their beliefs. I have never been given an answer to any of these questions.