Socialist Alliance forum: Election 2010: Australian politics re-cast?

Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT).

Rather than giving us the government we deserve, the August 21 federal election delivered an outcome the two old parties deserved. Close to one in five voters showed their opposition to Labor and Liberal by voting for alternatives in an election described by many as representing a seismic shift in the Australian electoral landscape. The resulting quake leaves us with a hung parliament and the Greens holding the balance of power in the Senate.

As the horse trading continues in earnest, join Socialist Alliance in a discussion to explore the broader political impacts of the elections for unions, the climate and other struggles for justice.

Introduced by Trent Hawkins, Socialist Alliance candidate in the seat of Wills.