Media Release Socialist Party to stand Denise Dudley for Nicholson ward by-election, City of Yarra Council election Denise Dudley, 24, works with intellectually disabled people and is the Co-ordinator of the Community Campaign for Heroin Reform. Denise was the chief first aid organiser at both the S11 and M1 demonstrations and is on the National Committee of the Socialist Party (SP) and lives in the Nicholson Ward. Denise opposes the introduction of parking meters in the area and the shutting down of the domestic violence unit by the Yarra City Council. Denise will fight for extra funding for non-profit child care centre in the area and supports permanent paid council staff supervision of the Skate Board park in the Fitzroy gardens. Denise will organise a mass campaign of direct action by council unions and the local community for extra funding for Council from the State Government. The Socialist Party has the best record of left of Labor parties in the area. In the 1998 federal election Matt Wilson Australia's youngest ever candidate won over 1,000 votes in the seat of Batman. A year later Stephen Jolly won over 4,000 votes (12.5%) in the state seat of Richmond. Last month the SP in the Melbourne City Council election ended up with 1,292 votes after 120 rounds of counting. For more information about this campaign or to interview Denise Dudley phone her on 0403 892605 or the Socialist Party office on 9639 9122. -- 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 Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink