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Unionist to run in Summer Hill Socialist Alliance says it wants better public housing, transport and services CHRIS CONNOLLY
he Socialist Alliance has preselected unionist Susan Price as their candidate for the seat of Summer Hill at next year’s state election. Ms Price said she will be contesting the election on a platform that includes highlighting the importance of maintaining and extending public services, public housing and public transport in NSW. She also feels the daily revelations of corruption in NSW politics coming out of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) highlight a need to clean up the electoral process in this state, and make it transparent and accountable. “It’s no coincidence that many of the NSW MPs who have been named by ICAC as being corrupt have presided over energy, ports and mines,” Ms Price said. “These portfolios have been treated like mini fiefdoms to enrich political ‘mates’. The mainstream parties have presided over a culture of a revolving door of corruption and ordinary workers are fed up.” She said the ‘politics as usual’ approach completely alienates good people from getting involved in making the change
they want and the Socialist Alliance supports proportional representation voting, publicly funded election campaigns and public declaration of all election donations. Ms Price says she has lived in the Inner West since 1999 and describes herself as an active unionist and long-time feminist. She is currently the national co-convenor of Socialist Alliance, a party formed in 2001 with a goal of creating a “democratic society run by and for working people, not the greedy, destructive capitalist elite that now rules”. Its policy is for all elected candidates to pledge to take no more than an average workers’ wage, donating the rest to the social movements. The seat of Summer Hill was created in a recent redistribution, which saw the existing seat of Marrickville abolished and replaced with two new seats, Newtown – which covers the area from Lewisham to Redfern – and Summer Hill – which covers Marrickville south of Addison Road and Edinburgh Road, Dulwich Hill, Lewisham south of the rail line, Summer Hill, Ashfield and Haberfield. Marrickville Mayor Jo Haylen has been nominated as the Labor candidate for the seat and Marrickville councillor Max Phillips is the Greens candidate.
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Susan Price will contest Summer Hill for the Socialist Alliance next year
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