Farida Iqbal

Scrap the GST;

For a progressive tax system where the wealthy pay their share;

Introduce a wealth tax for the super rich;

An immediate rise in company tax to 49%;

Tax the big polluters;

End the billions in public subsidies to mining corporations banks and energy companies; and

End rampant tax evasion by multinationals.

Nationalise the mines, banks and energy companies, under community and workers’ control;

Take back the wealth so that it can be used for social and environmental purposes; and

Oppose and reverse the privatisation of public assets and services.

Scrap the ‘Direct Action’ fraud;

Urgent public investment and emission reduction targets to achieve 100% renewable energy within 10 years;

Bring the power industries under public ownership and democratic control;

Stop fracking and all unconventional gas mining;

Tax the corporate polluters and billionaires;

Make the shift from coal and gas to renewables with a just transition for workers;

Justice for climate refugees and those displaced by climate change;

Ban the logging of old-growth forests;

Begin an urgent program of reforestation, sustainable farming and biodiversity protection; and

Enforce the rehabilitation of mine sites by companies.

No community closures;

Treaties now to respect sovereignty and land rights;

Repeal the Stronger Futures laws;

Abolish racist welfare quarantining and compulsory income management;

No uranium waste dumps;

Close the gap in Aboriginal health, education, employment and housing;

Implement all the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody;

Fund language and culture programs and bilingual education in schools; and

Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs — not tokenistic Constitutional recognition.

End the boat turn-backs;

Protect the rights of medical, teaching and security staff to speak out about abuse in detention;

Honour Australia's UNHCR obligations;

Close offshore and onshore detention centres and end mandatory detention;

Restore all Australian territories to the migration zone; and

Rnd deportations and end ASIO security veto of refugees.

End the racist targeting of Muslims;

Defend anti-discrimination laws;

Scrap ‘anti-terror’ laws;

Abolish ASIO and all spy agencies;

Repeal data retention laws;

Put the police under community control; and

Adopt a Bill of Rights.

Scrap all anti-union laws;

No new ABCC (Australian Building & Construction Commission);

Recognise workers’ right to strike and organise in law, including solidarity actions;

Increase the minimum wage;

Restore penalty rates;

Recognise the right to secure work for all — reverse casualisation;

Full industrial, residency and citizenship rights for all migrant workers;

Expand apprenticeship programs; and

Guarantee retirement and access to the pension for all at age 60.

Retool Australia’s manufacturing sector for the production of renewable technologies and public transport;

Immediate public investment to create jobs in providing better public housing, schools, hospitals and health facilities; and

Create jobs by introducing a 30 hour week, with no loss of wages.

Reverse the attacks on sole parent pensions;

Scrap "Work for the Dole" schemes;

No compulsory income management and other forms of welfare quarantining;

Aguaranteed basic income for all;

Lift all welfare payments above the poverty line and index them to maintain real value;

Boost funding to community-based aged and childcare services;

Expand disability services and access; and

Restore the universal right to the aged pension.

Reverse the gender pay gap — for equal pay;

Reverse the cuts to single parent pensions;

Enshrine the right to publicly-funded abortion;

Restore and expand funding to women's shelters, refuges and community anti-violence programs; and

Employer-funded, paid parental leave.

Full marriage equality;

Full rights for trans and intersex people;

Full, publicly-funded medical services for gender transition;

Fully-funded school programs for non judgemental sex education and anti violence campaigns; and

Full adoption rights.

Right to vote at 16; boost funding to youth services;

Full pay for young people — no youth wage!;

Expand youth housing programs;

Expand apprenticeship programs;

Eo fees for TAFE and University;

Restore Austudy and Youth Allowance to a living wage.

Reverse the funding cuts to public education;

Make public education free at all levels;

Expand the public education sector and massively increase funding to vocational education and TAFE; and

End public funding to private schools, tertiary institutions and training colleges.

Tackle homelessness and the housing shortfall with a large-scale expansion in quality public housing;

Cap rents and mortgage repayments at 20% of income;

Expand emergency accommodation services; and

Target housing provision for at-risk youth.

End the back door co-payments;

Restore free, universal health care;

Boost funding for preventative care and chronic disease management;

Free dental care;

End subsidies to private health insurers;

Expand community-based health care networks; and

Boost funding to mental health services.

Make public transport frequent and free;

Boost investment in suburban and high-speed intercity rail; and

Reverse the privatisation of public transport services.

Bring back all military forces from Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East;

No participation or support for imperialist interventions;

Isolate apartheid Israel;

End ANZUS and US military bases in Australia;

Cut military spending and boost development and climate change aid to poor countries;

Reverse the cuts to Australia's overseas aid programs — for a massive increase in Australia's aid budget;

End Australia’s interference in the affairs of countries in the Asia Pacific; and

Independence for West Papua.

Participatory democracy which empowers people and communities;

Proportional representation at all government levels;

Election campaigns for all candidates publicly funded to a fixed amount;

End careerism and rorting — put politicians on an average worker’s wage;

All government positions subject to recall; and

Scrap the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).

Decriminalise drugs and divert policing to address domestic violence, corporate tax evasion, and other corporate crimes including environmental vandalism;

End mandatory detention;

For prevention programs, community-oriented rehabilitation schemes and alternatives to imprisonment;

Fully fund legal aid;

Maintain policing and corrective services in public hands; and

Reverse the privatisation of prisons.