War and peace have become important issues in the City of Newcastle Council elections, as Newcastle is slated to become a major weapons manufacturing hub. Steve O'Brien reports.
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The Socialist Alliance will contest the Newcastle City Council elections, with a聽focus on affordable housing and real climate action. Kathy Fairfax reports.
鈥淧remier Gladys Berejiklian and her Coalition state government are getting desperate as the election campaign heats up,鈥 according to Socialist Alliance candidate Rachel Evans. 鈥淎s more and more of its crimes and misdemeanours are exposed, the government is coming under increasing fire from so many directions.鈥
Evans, who is heading up the party鈥檚 NSW Legislative Council ticket for the March 23 election, said: 鈥淭he government鈥檚 neoliberal agenda has been an absolute disaster for the people of New South Wales.
The Socialist Alliance will be running three Hunter-based candidates in the March 23 NSW state elections.
Socialists polled well in the Newcastle council elections on September 9. Steve O鈥橞rien, Samantha Ashby and Gayle Dedman won 891 votes (4.13%) in Ward 1.
Their vote was more than 4% in five of the 13 booths, with the highest being in Newcastle East at 7.5%. O鈥橞rien also won 2.10%, or 1909 votes, for Lord Mayor.
The 鈥淐ommunity need not developer greed鈥 platform resonated in a context where Labor boasted it would help developers, ignoring the impact on communities.