Joel McAlear for Senate NSW

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;

Oppose and reverse the privatisation of public assets and services; and

Provide government assistance to communities for the formation and maintenance of co-operative banks, at low interest rates.

A planned shift to 100% renewable energy within 10 years via public investment and emission reduction targets;

Bring the power industries under public ownership and democratic control;

Stop Adani and all new coal mines;

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; and

Institute a national heat health strategy.

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 (TPP).

Negotiate treaties to respect sovereignty and land rights;

Repeal the Stronger Futures/NT Intervention 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;

Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs — not tokenistic Constitutional recognition; and

No closure of Aboriginal communities.

End boat turn-backs;

Abolish Border Force;

Offer asylum to all refugees and asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru;

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

Reaffirm Australia's commitment to the Refugee Convention and and honour Australia's UNHCR obligations;

Close offshore and onshore detention centres and end mandatory detention;

Restore all Australian territories to the migration zone; and

End 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;

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, public transport and other socially useful projects;

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;

A guaranteed, 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; and

Abolish the Job Network and reestablish a Commonwealth Employment Service with a service provision (instead of punitive) focus.

Reverse the gender pay gap — for equal pay;

Enshrine the right to publicly-funded abortion and contraception and ensure safe access zones across the country;

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

Employer-funded, paid parental leave; and

Funding to First Nations and feminist advocacy services.

Make all discrimination against LGBTI people illegal – no support for religious exemptions;

Full rights for trans and intersex people, including easy change of identity documents;

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;

No fees for TAFE and University;

Restore Austudy and Youth Allowance to a living wage; and

Provide safe injecting facilities and pill testing.

Abolish imprisonment for non violent offences of poverty and non payment of fines;

Decriminalise drugs and 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;

Make police accountable to local communities;

Put all corrective services in public hands — reverse the privatisation of prisons; and

No police involvement in industrial disputes.

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.

Restore free, universal health care – end the back door co-payments;

Boost funding for preventative care and chronic disease management;

Free dental care;

End subsidies to private health insurers;

Expand community-based health care networks, reproductive and sexual health clinics;

Boost funding to public mental health services;

Legislate for aged-care staffing ratios; and

Legislate to support people’s choice to die with dignity.

Make public transport frequent and free;

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

Reverse the privatisation of public transport services.

Emergency assistance to struggling farmers, including for sustainable farming and farming cooperatives;

Restoration and rebuilding of transport links;

Housing, education and employment assistance in regional areas;

Just transition from fossil fuels to sustainable jobs; and

Remove water subsidies to industries and mining companies that are contaminating water resources and clearing forests.

End live exports;

Abolish the cruel and inhumane use of animals for sport, recreation or entertainment;

Tighten standards for free-range farming;

Implement alternatives to culling and netting of sharks.

Massive increase in funding for ABC and SBS – democratise their boards;

Reject privatisation of public broadcasters – no corporate advertising on SBS;

Increase funding and licences for community media;

Support a publicly owned NBN with fibre-to-the-premises;

Bring telecommunication companies back into public ownership;

Reject privatisation of Australia Post;

Support net neutrality, online privacy and a bill of digital rights; and

Shift to open source software use by government bodies.

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.