Annolies Truman, Socialist Alliance candidate for Pearce, WA

"I never imagined that I would stand in an election, but given the Iraq war of lies, and the torture and massacres committed in our name I feel that we all must take a stand."

Annolies was a co-founder of the Hills No War Alliance at the beginning of 2003 and was encouraged by the positive response from so many people in her area to the peace message. Annoleis is an experienced teacher of English to migrants and refugees and worked in migrant centres when they were "reception centres" rather than "detention centres".

"Like many women, I have decided to spend time raising my three children, but I am appalled at the way women who make that choice are shunted out of the work force. It's as if motherhood is a sentence to second-class status. I know many single mothers in particular who suffer terribly. I feel that women workers are not respected in Australia and we have to rebuild a movement to improve women's lives."

From Green Left Weekly, August 11, 2004.

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From GLW issue 593