Socialist Alliance NSW election campaign priority pledges
AGAINST WAR & FOR A BETTER WORLD
* No support for a war on Iraq
* Lift the sanctions on Iraq
* Stop the war on the Palestinian people
* No Australian military intervention in the Asia-Pacific under the
guise of pre-empting terrorism
* Cancel Third World debt, abolish the WTO
WELCOME REFUGEES
* End mandatory detention; transform Villawood into a refugee support
centre
* No deportations; full rights for refugees including free access to
public health, education & welfare services
CIVIL LIBERTIES & COMMUNITY SUPPORT, NOT 'LAW & ORDER'
* Repeal the NSW Terrorism (Police Powers) Act
* Don't racialise crime; stop scapegoating Islamic & Middle Eastern
communities
* Money for community services not more prisons; no new women's prison
* Three people is not a gang; stop police harassment of young people
* Decriminalise personal drug use; for safe injecting rooms & prescription
heroin trials
* Remove abortion from the Crimes Act; increase funding for pro-choice
services
* Repeal all legislation that erodes civil liberties; sniffer dogs off
the streets
* A bill of rights to guarantee civil liberties
TRADE UNION & WORKERS' RIGHTS
* Support and build solidarity with workers taking strike action to
improve their pay, conditions and rights
* Repeal all anti-union laws
* Restore workers' compensation rights; make the bosses pay
* Nationalise companies that threaten mass sackings; guarantee workers'
entitlements
* Full adult wages for young workers; no work for the dole
* Introduce industrial manslaughter laws; jail employers who kill
* Legislate for 12 months' parental leave on full pay
* For shorter work hours with no loss of pay
PUBLIC NEED NOT CORPORATE GREED
* Restore Telstra to public ownership
* Free and expanded public transport; no tollways
* Stop the public sector cuts & outsourcing
* Nationalise the insurance industry
BETTER PUBLIC EDUCATION & HEALTH CARE
* Government funding only for public and secular education
* 20 is plenty: reduce class sizes
* No public school closures
* No hospital mergers; keep all hospitals open
* Funding to eliminate hospital & nursing home waiting lists
* Funding for Medicare; not private health companies
REDISTRIBUTE
THE WEALTH: ACTION AGAINST POVERTY
* Increase company & wealth taxes to increase all pensions &
benefits to a living wage
* Replace the GST with a progressive tax system to fund the public services
we need
* Public investment to increase jobs & services in rural areas
* Massively expand quality, public housing
* Access to quality community-based child-care for all
* Reduce politicians' salaries & superannuation to those of an average
worker
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DISCRIMINATION
* Same age of consent laws for lesbians & gays
* More resources for mental & physical disability support services
* Land rights and affirmative action for indigenous people; implement
the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody royal commission recommendations
* Restore & increase funding to women's services
* More support services for new migrants, free English language classes
for all
* Decriminalise euthanasia
CLEAN,
GREEN & SUSTAINABLE
* Close Lucas Heights; no new nuclear reactors
* End logging old-growth forests; more national parks to protect bio-diversity
* Reserve urban parkland; no developers on the ADI site
* No charcoal plant on the South Coast
* More funding for clean renewable energy development, water conservation
& to fight salinity
* No genetically modified crops; make NSW GMO-free
* Effective action on greenhouse; make the polluters pay