Victorian Socialist Alliance Federal election candidates strongly condemn the Australian Federal Police raids on the Kurdish Association of Victoria and community members.
Issue 849
News
The article “Aboriginal embassy to appeal decision” (GLW #848) included the sentence: “The developer [Stockland] refused to consult the Aboriginal community about the development [at Sandon Point near Wollongong Illawarra], although it was a requirement in the preparation of the Sandon Point Environmental Assessment Report.”
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.
Wil Anderson from ABC TV's Gruen Transfer emceed the rally and had the crowd of 3000 in stitches before and after the march from Sydney Town Hall to Taylor Square.
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.
Speech by Paul Benedek at Sydney Refugee Action Coalition march and rally on August 7, 2010.
Analysis
Sick of the manipulative, increasingly policy-free barrage of major party negative advertising in the race to the August 21 Australian federal election?
Whichever major party wins the August 21 elections, the real job of fighting for progressive change will remain. Not just because Labor and the Liberal-National Coalition have made this election campaign an ugly race to the right, but also because real change never comes simply through a vote. Even an election that registered real victory, such as the defeat of the hated John Howard Coalition government in November 2007, came on the back of sustained political action by millions of ordinary people focused primarily around the campaign against Work Choices.