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 END 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 -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink