2022 Australian federal election

Pat O’Shane, a Kuku Yalanji woman from Mossman, is the Socialist Alliance candidate for the Far North Queensland lower house seat of Leichhardt in the federal election.

Pat O’Shane is a Kuku Yalanji woman and a retired magistrate. Her career has included teaching, public service, and university chancellorship.

Sue Bolton is the Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Wills in Melbourne. Sue Bolton is a veteran socialist activist and a three term councillor on the Moreland City Council.

Kamala Emanuel is a feminist and women's health doctor. She has long been a campaigner for abortion rights and access. She is a strong advocate of raising the social and economic status of women as a measure against sexual violence.

Rachel Evans was one of the founders of the grassroots marriage equality campaign in Sydney, and is a journalist with Green Left. She is a disability support worker and education student.

Andrew Chuter was formerly a high school teacher and now a casual tutor in several university mathematics departments. He has been active for many years in community action groups and campaigns. Public transport is a major focus where he was co-convenor of No WestCONnex and helped lead the fight against the huge private toll road.

Renee Lees is a community lawyer, activist and mum living in Cairns (Gimuy). For the past two decades she has worked to bring legal rights to people who are homeless, in poverty, in prison, or dealing with family violence - across north Queensland, Cape York, central Australia and NSW.

The twin crises of COVID-19 and climate breakdown expose an Australian government prioritising the interests of billionaires over the lives of people and our planet.

Repeated government calls for the market to fix the ravages of COVID-19 and climate destruction have failed. COVID-19 has hit working people and poor nations hardest, as capitalism creates vaccine apartheid and ignores climate disaster.

Andrew Chuter and Rachel Evans will run for the Socialist Alliance (SA) in the next New South Wales Senate election, with further candidates to be announced. The two long-term community and union activists were pre-selected at SA’s state conference on October 2.

Socialist Alliance candidate, Sue Bolton, has condemned the Federal Government's announcement to phase out the COVID-19 Disaster Payment once 70% and 80% vaccination targets are reached.

Veteran socialist councillor Sue Bolton has been pre-selected to run for the Socialist Alliance in the inner northern seat of Wills in the federal election.