Our policies

Everyone deserves well paid, secure work. We’re fighting for the right to strike, a $35 minimum wage on government-funded work, and an end to wage theft.

Housing should be a right, not a commodity. We’re fighting for a five-year rent freeze, 150,000 new public homes, and a ban on hoarding property.

Healthcare should be universal and free, not for profit. We’re fighting for fully funded public health and the expansion of free community health clinics.

Every child deserves free, quality public education. We’re fighting for universal preschool and childcare, better student-teacher ratios, and an end to NAPLAN.

Energy is essential infrastructure. We’re fighting for a public takeover to immediately cap electricity and gas bills, and transition to renewables sources.

We’re for a state bank, to provide below-market home loans and end lending to property investors. Bank profits should fund public housing and infrastructure.

We live in a rich state, yet resources are unevenly shared. We want to tax the wealth of the billionaires and banks. This wealth should fund essential services.

Public transport should be public. We’re fighting to reverse the privatisation of transport, make it free, and upgrade regional rail services.

Politicians should live more like the rest of us. We’ll fight to cap MPs' wages at $96,000 (a sixth-year nurse’s wage) and end their perks.

Our cities should be planned for people, not profit. We’re fighting to end the sale of public land, and make developers fund the amenities our communities need.

Higher education should run for students and staff, not for profit. We’re fighting to ensure revenue goes to secure jobs, and abolishing fees and student debt.

We need to tear up AUKUS, scrap the US alliance and shut down all US bases. Military spending should be redirected into healthcare, housing and education.

Australia is built on the dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Treaty should deliver material change – not just symbolic recognition.

Racism serves the rich and powerful by dividing workers. We’re fighting for working-class unity against racism so we can build a better society for everyone.

Women’s oppression is part of the fabric of capitalism. We’re fighting for free, accessible abortion, expanded paid parental leave, and free childcare.

We stand against homophobia and transphobia. We’re fighting for publicly funded gender affirmation care and an end to legal exemptions for discrimination.

Disabled people have a right to independence and equal access to services. We’re fighting to re-fund public disability services cut after the NDIS rollout.

Older people deserve dignity and security, not neglect. We’re fighting to ban for-profit aged care and guarantee public housing for pensioners.

Young people struggle to find secure work and decent, affordable housing. We support the right to vote at 16, full adult pay, and liveable welfare payments.

Civil liberties are under sustained attack.. Democracy means the freedom to organise, speak out and protest without fear of repression.

‘Law and order’ politics fills prisons without addressing root causes. We’ll redirect police budget increases into public housing, youth and social services.

Addiction is a health issue, not a crime. We support a harm reduction approach, based on legalisation, regulation and more public drug treatment facilities.

Gambling is an industry built on addiction and misery. We’re fighting to phase out all pokies and ban gambling industry advertising and political donations.

The climate crisis is driven by the profit motive. We need a shift to 100 percent publicly owned renewable energy and an end to old-growth logging.

Everyone deserves a decent meal. Good food should be affordable and easily available. We want to set up cost-price food hubs and cap supermarket prices.

Regional communities deserve the same opportunities. We want to rebuild regional transport, secure sustainable jobs, and end the exploitation of rural workers.

Art should belong to everyone, not just the rich. We’re fighting for stronger support for emerging artists, museums, galleries, theatres and live music.

Animals deserve protection from cruelty. We want to end live export, abolish the use of animals for sport and entertainment, and tighten standards for farming.