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Margarita Windisch

Socialist Alliance candidate for Victoria

Socialist Alliance Vic State Convener

Why I am standing

I believe Socialist Alliance can offer people a real choice in this election that will put people and the planet before the mega profits of a small minorty. Global warming is the biggest threat to humanity; we have the 'know how' to arrest climate change but it will require political will, effort and a move away from the free market.
If elected into the Senate I will only take the wage of a skilled worker and will use my position to represent the demands of the social movements, such as unions, indigenous, peace, anti terror, environment,women's rights. Socialist Alliance is an activist party, we are campaigning for justice and worker's rights on a daily basis. We believe a better world is possible and together we can achieve it.

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Important policy documents

Socialist Alliance key policies
1. Tear up all of Work Choices
ü No to individual contracts
ü Yes to collective agreements in workplaces and across industries
ü The rights of casual and part time employees to be the same as for full-time workers
ü Defend the right to strike
ü For strong and democratic unions
ü Get rid of the Australian Building and Construction Commission

2. Make poverty history,
free health and education
ü Universal and free education and health systems
ü Medicare to cover optical and dental
ü More money for all levels of public education
ü No TAFE or university fees
ü A living wage for all carers, pensioners and unemployed

3. Fix the housing crisis
ü Stop the privatisation of public housing
ü Build new public housing to end the waiting list
ü Improve maintenance of public housing
ü End private rental profiteering
ü End repossession of homes due to increases in mortgage repayments

4. Bring the troops home
ü Withdraw all foreign troops from Iraq and Afghanistan
Let the Iraqi and Afghan people determine their future
ü War spending to be redirected for social services and to assist poor countries
ü Free Palestine
ü No war on Iran
ü Self determination for the Tamil and the Kurdish people

5. Defend Aboriginal rights
ü Solidarity with Indigenous peoples’ struggles
ü No government intervention in Aboriginal affairs (Northern Territory and elsewhere)
ü Land rights not land grabs
ü No more black deaths in custody
ü Justice for victims of police racism like Redfern’s
T. J. Hickie and Palm Island’s Mulrunji
6. Scrap anti-terrorism laws
ü Stop attacks on Islamic and Middle Eastern communities
ü Restore civil liberties lost under anti-terrorism laws
ü Free all people presently held under ‘anti-terror’ laws, like the Barwon 13 and drop the charges against the 3 Tamil activists
ü Stop harassment of Mamdouh Habib, and provide compensation for his ordeal
7. Stop the destruction of our planet
ü The Socialist Alliance supports 60% emissions reductions by 2020 and 90% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.
ü Stop logging of old growth forest
ü No dregding of Part Phillip Bay
ü End the mining and processing of uranium and pull Australia out of the nuclear cycle.
ü Implement an emergency program to phase out coal and rapidly make renewable energy the main source for the power grid
ü Bring all power industries under public ownership
ü Free and efficient public transport

8. End all discrimination
ü Equal pay for equal work irrespective of sex, age or race
ü Repeal all laws that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation
ü expand m and legalise abortion
ü All refugees welcome to Australia and be given full citizenship rights
ü Close all dentention centres and build Refugee Help Centres for new arrivals.

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Contact Details

Other Candidates

AFFLECK, Rachel - CEC
* ALLISON, Lyn - DEM
BAPTIST, Tania - SEP
BARRETT, Jenny - SOL
BHATHAL, Alexandra - GRN
BOWN SEELEY, Ann - FFP
BYRNE, Peter - SEP
CHIPP, Greg - DEM
CLANCY, Steve - LDP
CLARNETTE, Dallas - CDP
COLLINS, Jacinta - ALP
CONWAY, Andrew - IND
CREA, Paul - DLP
DI NATALE, Richard - GRN
EVELYN-LIARDET, Teresa - DLP
FEENEY, David - ALP
* FIFIELD, Mitch - LP
FLOOD, Gerry - DLP
GIBILISCO, Peter - CA
GRAHAM, Matt - ASP
GROVES, Llewellyn - ONWA
HALL, Brendan - NCP
HEATH, Clare - FFP
HENLEY, Emma - GRN
HOWARD, Ainslie - CCC
ISHERWOOD, Katherine - CEC
KALINIY, Joseph - IND
KARADIMOS, Patricia - CA
KLEIN, Amanda - IND
KLEIN, Tony - IND
KROGER, Helen - LP
LA MANNA, Pat - DLP
LEWAND, Viesha - CCE
LEWIS, Marg - ALP
LOVE, Madeleine - WWW
* MARSHALL, Gavin - ALP
MCCUBBIN, Jo - DEM
MCDONALD, Ewan - CDP
MESARITIS, Koulla - IND
MULHOLLAND, John - DLP
O'BRYAN, Darryl - IND
O'CONNOR, Jenny - GRN
PARKER, Brett - ASP
PERKINS, John - IND
PHAM, Hoa - GRN
PIERCE, Jude - IND
PLUMRIDGE, Gary - FFP
PODBURY, Monique - FFP
RASKOVY, Steve - CCE
RAWSON, Miriam - FFP
REIHER, Jim - GRN
RHODES, Junelle - CA
ROSE, Robert - SOL
ROZAIRO, Sashikala - CCC
RYAN, Scott - LP
SAW, Geoff - LDP
SENER, Tejay - IND
SHORE, Daniel - ON
SMITH, Jeremy - SAL
STEEL, Nick - ON
SWAYN, Simon - NP
THOMPSON, Robyn - WWW
TOSCANO, Joseph - IND
WALKER, Norman - IND
WELLS, Ken - DLP
WILLIS, Chris - FFP
ZABANEH, John - NCP

* incumbent

Previous Elections

Margarita has also been a candidate in the following elections:

Victoria Election 2006