Socialist Party in Yarra

Visit yarrasocialists.net for all the latest news from the Socialist Party in Yarra.



The City of Yarra, located in inner city Melbourne, includes the historic suburbs of Abbotsford, Burnley, Clifton Hill, Collingwood, Cremorne, Fitzroy, Fitzroy North, Princes Hill, Richmond and parts of Alphington, Fairfield and Carlton North.



It has been home to many famous struggles and is now one of the only places in Australia to be represented by a socialist Councillor. The Socialist Party has been active in the area for more almost 20 years and we are planning to step up our work in this part of Australia.





In order to keep our supporters better informed we have decided to launch this new website. It will feature regular reports and analysis from the current State election campaign as well as news about upcoming community campaigns. Socialist Party Councillor Stephen Jolly will also report on all the goings on at Yarra Council.



We urge our supporters to bookmark the site and visit it regularly but more importantly, don’t just be an observer, join the Socialist Party and get involved with our campaigns.



We are the only party in the area with a focus on community activism and the only party fighting to replace the profit first system with a socialist system that puts the interests of residents first.



Visit: www.yarrasocialists.net



Please note this site (www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/council) will no longer be updated but it will remain as a record of our work.

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This Monday 6pm at Yarra Community Centre, Napier St, Fitzory is debate no.3 between seat of Richmond candidates (Wynne, Jolly, Maltzahn and McFeely). Organised by Fitzroy Residents Association and Melbourne Times. Come along and have a listen, put a comment or question...

Great meeting - about 30 residents all agreeing to on strategy to put to Council's Finance Committee this Tuesday 6pm Fitzroy Town Hall. They want 49 Tudor St as a community room plus community gardens. First political meeting on Burnley Oval since days of Richmond Secondary College fight.

The Socialist Party has put climate change as one of its big three issues in this State election campaign, alongside transport and planning.

Australia produces only 1.5% of global emissions, but our coal-powered economy has the highest emission rate per person in the industrialised world: about five times the global average.

Here in Victoria, the Hazelwood plant is an environmental disaster. It uses more water in a year, for example, than the whole private and commercial needs of Melbourne in a month.

The Socialist Party supports a safe climate target of 300-325 parts per million of atmospheric carbon dioxide — down from 390ppm, and rising, today. This can be achieved by moving to zero carbon emissions throughout the economy and then reducing carbon already in the atmosphere.

Immediate economy-wide and sector-by-sector planning is required to move as rapidly as possible to eliminate all greenhouse pollution. Australia's yearly emission reduction targets must be at least 5% and may need to be much higher. We support the Beyond Zero Emissions plan to fully decarbonise the Australian economy by 2020.

We support the call for fossil fuels to be replaced, not by gas, but by solar and wind power.

We oppose the mooted plans for another coal-fired power station in the La Trobe Valley.

The Socialist Party has been involved in the campaign to 100% shut Hazelwood and we believe this should happen during the term of the next Victorian government. Jobs for displaced workers must be guaranteed at union rates of pay and conditions via the new manufacturing jobs to be created through a shift to wind and solar power.

If elected, Stephen Jolly will use the position to support a mass campaign to close down Hazelwood and will donate a substantial amount of his salary to this campaign. On Council, Stephen has been a fighter for the environment pushing the Zero Emissions Policy for Yarra through Council, getting targets for the new Energy Foundation, and supporting related issues such as the defence and promotion of community and guerrilla gardens and planter boxes. Stephen also pushed for practical support from Council for the Yarra Climate Action Network.

We ask all environmentalists in the State seat of Richmond to vote 1 Socialist Party’s Stephen Jolly.

Nice new YouTube of our election campaign launch by Anthony Snowden, includes interviews with attendees.

Click here to watch

Victorian Greens MLC Greg Barber was interviewed yesterday on the Jon Faine radio show on ABC. He was asked what were the minimum conditions for propping up a government of either Liberal or Labor. He cited "stablility" as the number 1 issue and, in response to two direct questions from Faine, did not highlight the closure of Hazelwood.

For SP in Richmond, this is a core issue.

Click here to listen to interview, specifically with 38 minutes to go.

Help us campaign this weekend, join our stalls + doorknocking. Saturday: 10.30 to 11.30 Glaedell St Market, Richmond then three stalls all from 12 to 1pm Woolies, Smith St, Collingwood; Coles, Johnston/Brunswick Sts, Fitzroy; Bakers Delight, Queens Parade, Clifton Hill. Meet afterwards 1.30pm, Bendigo Hotel, Johnston St, Collingwood for mass doorknock.

Sunday: Stall 4-6pm, Piedemontes, St Georges Rd, North Fitzroy.

Chaired first meeting of Yarra's Live Music Taskforce. Agreed to give venues parking permits for roadies so they don't fined doing their job

Acknowledges how SP mobilisation of residents forced Councillors to pass resolution basically word for word with concerns raised at community meeting. Click here to read. Page 4