LEFT LABOR ACTIVISTS AND SUPPORTERS CONFERENCE
"Building a left alternative within Labor"
Sunday July 1, 10am TRADES HALL
(corner Victoria and Lygon Sts, Carlton)
With presentations from:
Dr. Jim Cairns, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
Glenyys Romanes, MLC Melbourne Province
Jamie Gardiner, Vice President Liberty Victoria
Judith McVey, Refugee Action Collective
Father Peter Norden, Jesuit Centre for Social Justice
Peter Torney, Publisher A.C.M., Eros Foundation member.
Dr. David Hayward, Executive Director, Institute for Social Research,
Swinburne University
Ann Taylor, Deputy President Australian Education Union Victorian Branch
Ted Murphy, Assistant National Secretary NTEU, Fair Trade Alliance
Serena O'Meley, Earthworker, West Victorian Forest Protection Network
Peter Ewer, Community and Public Sector Union/State Public Sector
Federation
Paul Mees, President, Public Transport Users Association
Gary Foley, Indigenous Historian and Activist
Anthony Leong, Australia-China Friendship Society
Therese Self, Progressive Labour Party member
Gurm Sekhon, Convenor, Australian Greens - Victorian branch
Peter Holding, Policy Coordinator, Australian Labor Party, Socialist Left
faction
Lev Lafayette, Policy Convenor, Australian Labor Party, Labor Left
(Pledge) faction
With the Howard coalition government facing certain defeat in the upcoming
federal election and with the conservative forces in this State paralysed,
it is opportune for left Labor activists and their supporters to force
progressive reform. This conference allows progressive organisations to
present their demands to the Labor governments and to its activists.
TIMETABLE
Convened by Glenyys Romanes, MLC Melbourne Province
10.15 Introduction by Dr. Jim Cairns, former Deputy Prime Minister of
Australia
Session One: Our Bodies, Our Rights: Personal Freedom and Civil Liberties
10.30 am Jamie Gardiner, Civil Rights in Victoria
10.45 am Judith McVey, Refugee and Asylum Seeker Rights
11.00 am Father Peter Norden, The Necessity of Drug Law Reform
11.15 am Peter Torney, Publishing Rights and Wrongs
11.30 am Questions
12 noon Break
Session Two: Economic Rights, Democracy and Rebuilding the Public Sector
01.00 pm Dr. David Hayward, State Government Finance
01.15 pm Ted Murphy, Trade Agreements: Capitalism over Democracy
01.30 pm Ann Taylor, Defence and Expansion of Public Education
01.45 pm Peter Ewer, Opportunities to Rebuild the Public Sector
02.00 pm Questions
02.30 pm Break
Session Three: The Context: Environment, Infrastructure and People
03.00 pm Serena O'Meley, Environmental Priorities
03.15 pm Paul Mees, Transport and Infrastructure Alternatives
03.30 pm Gary Foley, Indigenous Sovereignty and Reconciliation
03.45 pm Anthony Leong, Advancing Ethnic and Multicultural Diversity
04.00 pm Questions
04.30 pm Break
Session Four: The United Front
05.00 pm Teresa Self, Experiences in the Far Left
05.15 pm Gurm Sekhon, Red-Green Alliances
05.30 pm Peter Holding, Towards Left Labor Unity
05.45 pm Lev Lafayette, Effective strategies for Social Reform
06.00 pm Questions
Conference Fees to cover expenses: $10 waged/$5 unwaged
07.30 pm Dinner. RSVP to Anthony Leong 0415 335 033
For more information contact Lev Lafayette on 0409 861 528
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