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Independent candidates for Blaxland, Ronald Poulsen, responded :
Dear Both Kinds of Politics,
Below are the answers of Ronald Poulsen, Communist League candidate for Blaxland, Sydney in the 2010 federal elections, in response to your questions. Also attached are the CL campaign leaflet and a brief biography/platform statement.
Yours,
Ronald Poulsen
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> What are your thoughts on asylum seekers?
The Communist League calls for opening Australia’s borders to refugees and immigrants. No new detention centres, close all the detention centres in the region.
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> What are your thoughts on public transport?
The CL is for a public works program to create jobs and build the needed mass public transportation, hospitals, schools and day-care centres.
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> What are your thoughts on renewable energy?
Development of renewable energy is desirable but is currently a long way from supplanting conventional power sources. The solution to the world’s energy needs must include the right of Third World countries to use all forms of power generation, including nuclear power, in order to climb out of underdevelopment.
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> Do you support or oppose the introduction of the R18+ rating classification for video games?
Oppose
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> Do you support or oppose the proposed internet filter?
Oppose
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> Do you support or oppose gay marriage?
Support
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> What are your thoughts on abortion?
The CL supports a woman’s right to choose abortion. Join the October 9 National Day of Action for abortion rights. Drop the charges against the Cairns couple for procuring an abortion. Decriminalise abortion. Free, safe contraception and abortion on request.
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> Do you support or oppose the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia?
> Support
> What are your thoughts on stem cell research?
Support
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> What are your thoughts on education?
Free comprehensive and secular education for all. Society needs to be reorganised so that education is a human activity for all working, creating humanity from when we are very young until when we die.
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> What are your thoughts on campaign finance disclosure?
Oppose any and all such measures by the capitalist state that will only be turned against workers’ organisations.
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> What are your thoughts on climate change?
Heavy penalties for the big industrial polluters of air, land and sea. Capitalism’s despoilation of the environment will not be ended until production for profit is replaced by production for human needs.
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> What are your thoughts on water?
Water needs to be recycled and conserved according to a rational, long term plan, not for instance, the sale for a profit by the capitalist state of licenses to non-existent water during droughts. The rational conservation and balanced use of water from needed irrigation to replenishment of the environment, the patrimony of humanity, will only possible once water has been decommodified. This can only be done by the working class with its allies, chiefly working farmers, taking political power out of the hands of the billionaire rulers and joining in the worldwide struggle for socialism.
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> Do you support or oppose standing order 50?
oppose
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> Are there any local issues you are trying to highlight with your campaign?
Our politics start with the workers of the world.
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> What do you think about the media’s coverage of the election so far?
The big business press has covered the elections from the standpoint only of the rival capitalist parties of the two-party system, not the needs of the working majority. To the dictatorship of capital, this is “balanced” coverage!
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