Priority pledges for the Socialist Alliance election campaign
Make Tasmania a refugee safe haven. End mandatory detention.
Jobs not profits. Shorter working week with no loss in pay; nationalise under workers' and community control companies that threaten mass sackings. Abolish youth wages.
Massive boost in funding for health and education budgets. Reduce hospital and nursing home waiting lists. Expand the public housing stock.
Stop clearfelling in old-growth forests. Stop Southwood. Guaranteed job for timber workers. End subsidies to the woodchip industry.
Pay justice and safe staffing levels for nurses. Increase nurses' salaries.
Increase tax on business. Reduce politicians' salaries and superannuation to that of an average worker.
Reverse corporatisation of the Hydro. Reschedule electricity prices so ordinary households pay less and business pays more. Stop Basslink.
Publicly funded, free abortion service in north and south of the state. Remove abortion from the crimes act.
Massive expansion of public transport. Increase urban bus routes, introduce urban trams. Re-establish a passenger train service between Hobart, Launceston, Devonport and Burnie.
Expand sexual assault support services, refuges and childcare services. Make childcare free.
Nationalise the insurance industry to solve the insurance crisis. Government insurance for midwives. Increase workers' compensation benefits and restore workers' common law rights.
Public ownership not corporate subsidies.
Return Aboriginal land. Negotiate a treaty with the Aboriginal community.
End nuclear and non-nuclear warship visits. No support for the misnamed "war on terrorism".
Tackle the causes of crime and violence. Seek alternatives to prison for offenders.
Decriminalise personal drug use, legalise marijuana.