Australian government to unveil new anti-democratic electoral laws
Under the guise of placing limits on political donations by the wealthy, the legislation will erect onerous fund-raising and bureaucratic hurdles for smaller parties.
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SEP campaign against Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
Put a socialist, anti-war party on the ballot! Join the SEP (Australia) as an electoral member today!
Socialist Equality Party assistant national secretary Max Boddy calls on workers and young people in Australia to sign up as an SEP electoral member.
Apply for electoral membership of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
The SEP has launched an energetic campaign to register with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) as a political party. This will enable us to field candidates with the party name on the ballot paper in the next federal elections. We are currently excluded from this basic right due to anti-democratic electoral laws jointly rammed through the Australian parliament by the Labor and Liberal parties on August 26, 2021, which tripled the required membership number to 1,500. This is to block ordinary people from choosing to vote for a socialist candidate.
The working class must have a conscious political voice. Join the SEP today.
Our party fights for:
● Social equality for all!
● An immediate end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
● An end to all militarism and war.
● A scientific program to eradicate the coronavirus pandemic. No to the mass death policies of the ruling elite.
● Against nationalism and racism. For the unity of the international working class.
● Quality, free education and healthcare for all. A decent, full-time job with permanent conditions for those able to work.
● A workers’ government and socialism—democratic control of the wealth that workers produce, for human need, not corporate wealth.
There is no solution to the crisis confronting the working class except by ending the capitalist system. The slaughter being carried out in Gaza is the latest and most bloody expression of the drive by imperialism to World War III. We advance a socialist program that calls for the abolition of a society based on corporate profits, the establishment of democratically-controlled public ownership over big business, and the dissolution of the vast military-industrial complex.
Fill out this form to apply to join the SEP as an Electoral Member.
Membership is free.
This campaign is essential to ensure that the Socialist Equality Party’s name appears on the ballot papers for the next federal election, as the only party fighting for the socialist alternative to capitalist barbarism, war, inequality and dictatorship.
Australian Labor governments escalating police repression of pro-Palestinian protests
The Labor governments in NSW and Victoria are going on a rampage in a bid to stamp out mass opposition to the Gaza genocide and the federal government’s complicity in the Israeli onslaught.
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Australia: Tasmanian election results in unstable hung parliament
In a staggering rebuff, the Tasmanian Liberal government lost a quarter of its primary votes, yet Labor remained on a near record low of about 29 percent, leaving both far short of forming a majority government.
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Australia: Why you should become an electoral member of the SEP
“The working class must have a political voice, which the ruling class through its latest legislation is seeking to stifle.”
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VIDEO: Australian workers explain why they’ve joined the SEP as electoral members
“If ever there’s a war, it’s the working class who gets sent off to be killed.”
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Long-time Australian Labor Party member resigns to become SEP electoral member
A retired nurse and longtime Labor Party member explains why he has quit that party to join the Socialist Equality Party as an electoral member.
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Australia: SEP electoral members call on workers and youth to help put a socialist anti-war party on the ballot
“They’re trying to make it harder for minority parties to exist—it’s crazy. I’m for our voices being heard, normal people, not the billionaires sponsoring all the other parties.”
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Electoral members call on workers and youth to join the SEP and fight Australia’s undemocratic election laws
“I needed to find a party that I am confident and happy to support and that is the SEP.”
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SEP Assistant National Secretary Max Boddy launches electoral registration campaign in Sydney
The SEP is fighting to provide the working class with a political voice, in opposition to the pro-genocide, pro-war Labor government and political establishment.
As part of the fight to build the necessary socialist leadership in the working class, the SEP is boldly campaigning for electoral registration. By securing 1,500 electoral members, the SEP will again be allowed to stand in federal elections with its party name appearing on the ballot.
Video: A socialist program to eliminate COVID-19. Become an electoral member of the SEP today
SEP Assistant National Secretary Max Boddy warns, “Children, almost all unvaccinated, are being recklessly sent back to school, risking infection, illness and death to force their parents back to work.”
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Video: The pandemic is a bonanza for Australia’s billionaires
“The 200 richest people in Australia increased their wealth by 40 percent, from $341.8 billion in May 2019 to $479.6 billion in May this year.”
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Video: Capitalism, the climate-change catastrophe and the fight against Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
IYSSE members explain that the environmental crisis is a product of the capitalist system, and its subordination of all aspects of life to the profit interests of a tiny corporate elite.
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Video: The health crisis and Australia’s new anti-democratic electoral laws
“Health workers are rightly angry. They have witnessed decades of gutted health budgets that they are expected to compensate for with their intolerable workloads and hours.”
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