For the Billions not the Billionaires!

For the Billions not the Billionaires!

2021 Western Australia Socialist Alliance Candidates

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Socialist Alliance has chosen three activist candidates to take its message to Perth’s southern suburbs in the WA state election on Saturday 13 March 2021.

Our candidates are actively involved in our campaigns across important state issues:

Black Lives Matter

Housing is a Human Right

WA Labor Slashes Public Housing (GreenLeft.org.au)
Sam Wainwright, Fremantle, November 26, 2020

It’s a Climate Emergency

Fighting for ecological and social justice in the fossil fuel heartland (2020 Ecosocialism Conference)
Socialist Alliance (w/ Dirk Kelly), Boorloo Activist Centre, Oct 24, 2020

Confronting imperialism and building people power in the Global South (2020 Ecosocialism Conference)
Socialist Alliance (w/ Sam Wainwright), Boorloo Activist Centre, Oct 24, 2020

Take Back the Wealth

Save Freo Port

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Socialist Alliance WA
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Account: 159 292 382

Our candidates

What we stand for

Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter
  • Treaty
  • Real land rights
  • Full implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
  • Independent investigatory Body for Police and Prison Guard Crimes
Housing is a Human Right
Housing is a Human Right
  • 30,000 new public housing dwellings in four years
  • Expand public housing stock by buying out defaulting mortgage holders and allowing them to stay as tenants
  • Ban no-fault evictions for private tenants
  • Peg private residential rent increases to CPI
  • Private residential rentals left vacant for more than 12 months to be compulsorily managed by the Housing Authority
Climate Justice Now
Climate Justice Now
  • WA to be net zero emissions within 10 years
  • Require 100% carbon offsets by the gas industry immediately
  • No new gas projects (onshore or offshore), phase out existing gas industry. Ban fracking
  • Metronet for the south west: Murdoch to Fremantle, Cockburn Central to Fremantle
Take Back the Wealth
Take Back the Wealth
  • $5/tonne iron ore royalty levy
  • Increase gas royalty payment
Freo Port Dock Workers
Save Freo Port
Save Freo Port
  • Put freight on rail, eliminate empty running by trucks, incentivise off-peak truck movements and electric trucks
  • Build the Freo Wind Farm
  • No PPP port in Kwinana
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