Socialist Alliance

Pip Hinman, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Grayndler NSW in the August 21, 2010 Australian federal election, calls for urgent public investment into a shift to 100% renewable energy by 2020.

Duncan Roden, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Parramatta, speaking on the urgent need for better public transport in Sydney's western suburbs.

Video from Perth Socialist Alliance election launch 7-8-10. This video features Perth candidate Alex Bainbridge, Fremantle councillor Sam Wainwright and senate candidate Ben Peterson.

Sam Watson, Socialist Alliance Senate candidate for Queensland. Longstanding leader of the Aboriginal community of Brisbane, campaigner against Black deaths in custody and for Indigenous rights.

Rachel Evans is running in the Australian federal election 2010 for a NSW Senate seat.

Jess Moore is running in the Australian federal election 2010 for the lower house seat of Cunningham.

Pip Hinman is running in the Australian federal election 2010 for the lower house seat of Grayndler.

The Socialist Alliance released the following statement in response to the developments in the anti-league tables campaign. *** The federal executive of the Australian Education Union (AEU) resolved on April 12 to impose a ban on implementing National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests, after damaging league tables were published in newspapers, based on 2009 NAPLAN data. Socialist Alliance supports the principled stand against league tables taken by teachers.
Socialist Alliance has condemned the axing of contract positions at BlueScope Steel at Port Kembla that will see hundreds of workers out of work by Christmas.
“The surge in the vote for socialist candidates in the weekend Victorian local government elections shows that increasing numbers of working people are looking for candidates whom they trust to defend their interests as economic crisis looms”, Socialist Alliance Victorian State Convener Sue Bolton said on December 2.