Now We The People - Federal Election 2001 Candidate Survey

Name of Candidate: ___________________ Party: __________________ Electorate: __________

1. Privatisation

• Would you support a moratorium on all privatisation? Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• Would you oppose the privatisation of the remainder of TELSTRA? Yes [  ]    No [  ]
  

2. The ABC

• Would you increase ABC funding to at least pre-1996 levels in real terms and
  restore the independence of the ABC Board? Yes [  ]    No [  ]

3. Public education

If elected, will you undertake to:

• Re-balance federal education spending to 70% for the public school system and
  30% for the private school system, to reflect the current proportion
  of students in each system? Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• Promote the importance and value of public education? Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• Support increased funding for TAFE and university education to pre-1996
  levels in real terms, and reverse the trend towards user pays and privatisation? Yes [  ]   No [  ]
  

4. Unemployment

If elected, what are at least two actions you will take as the local MP to address
unemployment, and youth unemployment in your electorate?
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• If elected, will you undertake to replace the work-for-the-dole schemes with genuine
  job creation and training schemes? Yes [  ]   No [  ]

• If elected, will you support a government policy commitment to full employment? Yes [  ]   No [  ]

5. World Trade Organisation, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank

If elected, would you support:

• a moratorium on any new global trading negotiations and
  any proposed free trade and investment agreements, until there is an independent, open
  review of the results of the free trade agenda? Yes [  ]   No [  ]

• a democratic reform of the World Trade Organisation as requested
  by developing countries? Yes [  ]   No [  ]

• the cancellation of debt owed to the Australian government from
  impoverished, developing countries? Yes [  ]   No [  ]

• Australia voting against any more Structural Adjustment Programs
  proposed by the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank? Yes [  ]    No [  ]

6. Finance and banks

If elected, would you support:

• creation of a government-owned national savings and development bank? Yes [  ]   No [  ]

• in world forums a 0.01% tax on foreign currency transactions (Tobin Tax)? Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• re-regulation of the exchange rate of the Australian dollar and support
  international initiatives to stabilise currencies in our region and globally? Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• the closure of offshore tax havens? Yes [  ]    No [  ]

7. Reconciliation and Indigenous Rights

If elected, would you support

• an immediate government apology and compensation for the separation of Aboriginal
  and Torres Strait Islander children from their families due to past government policies?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• a major increase in funding to address chronic inequality in housing, health, education,
  employment and imprisonment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• the 'unfinished business' agenda set out in the final report of the Council for
  Aboriginal Reconciliation?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• proper funding of negotiations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander recognised
  community groups and elders towards a Treaty?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• Government funding for a community-based education process towards a treaty
  between Australia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

8. Environment

If elected, would you support:

• the immediate ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on the Climate Change Convention,
  and push for higher global targets to be adopted for reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• the ACF / NFF $60 billion plan to halt salination of the Murray - Darling Basin
  and other areas of Australia?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• cancellation of the proposed new nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• an end to all uranium mining in Australia?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• mandatory labeling of all foods products derived from genetically engineered
  ingredients, including sugars, processing aids and additives, and foods derived
  from animals fed genetically engineered ingredients?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• A minimum five year freeze from January 2002 on release of genetically-modified
  organisms into the environment?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• truth-in-labelling for all foods?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• an end to woodchip exports from native forests?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

9. Multiculturalism and equality

If elected, would you support:

• the right of family reunion for all Australians, including permanent residents and immigrant citizens?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• the restoration of social security benefits to all immigrants?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• a humane regime for asylum seekers, by placing them in community residences and
  rapidly determining their applications and rights of appeal?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• restore legal aid for asylum seekers for initial applications to the DIMA, appeals
  before the Refugee Review Tribunal and before the Federal Court where merited,
  as determined by the relevant Legal Aid Commission in each state?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

10. Human Rights

If elected, would you support:

• Australia's international obligations under human rights treaties?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• the repeal of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 and restoration of the core workers
  rights set out in ILO Conventions to which Australia is a party?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• a national community-based process to create a Bill of Rights for Australia?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• A new referendum to establish a Republic?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• Do you agree that Australia's migration legislation must be consistent with Australia's
  international obligations, as found in the international instruments to which Australia is a signatory?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

11. Foreign Policy

If elected, would you

• Support the continuation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

• Oppose the National Missile Defence Project being proposed by the United States of America?
  Yes [  ]    No [  ]

Please return completed survey to: Now We The People - PO BOX K941 Haymarket NSW 1240.
By the 23rd of October 2001.