Nuclear Disarmament Party

Nuclear

• Close all foreign nuclear bases in Australia.

• Withdraw from the ANZUS alliance until the nuclear weapon solution is abandoned. Oppose the Son of Star Wars.

• Prohibit the stationing in Australia or the passage through Australian waters or airspace of any nuclear weapons.

• Terminate immediately all mining and export of uranium, and repudiate all commitments by previous governments to the mining, processing and export of uranium.

• Close the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor and not allow any new reactors. Prepare medical isotopes in cyclotrons.

• Insist that other countries store nuclear waste above ground at the site of production, and refuse to provide an underground nuclear waste dump in Australia for the rest of the world.

• Condemn the use of depleted uranium in shells in weapons.

• Condemn the US for spending $30 billion per annum on new nuclear weapons, and China for its nuclear weapons development policy.

Other weapons

• Prohibit the production and export of all weapons of mass destruction including chemical and biological weapons and land mines and destroy all stocks of these weapons.

Land rights

• Apologise immediately for genocide and dispossession of Aboriginal people.

• Respect and protect the Aboriginal Embassy and insist on a dialogue between the Embassy and the elected government.

• Oppose the WIK amendments which remove land from Aboriginal people.

• Prohibit military bases, uranium mines, nuclear tests and dumps that threaten land rights.

• Restore rights to education in Indigenous languages and culture.

Foreign Policy

• End the invasion of Iraq. Help set up a democratically elected Iraqi government.

• Dismantle the Wall. Strongly support setting up an independent Palestinian state with its capital in east Jerusalem. Insist on nuclear disarmament by Israel.

• Support self determination and free elections.

• Stop the war and prevent the creation of more refugees. Abolish detention centres.

• Provide financial and peacekeeping aid to prevent the slaughter going on.

• Redraft the Timor Gap oil treaty.

• Provide logistical support for the new nation.

• Support the right of the people of Bougainville to seek self-determination and protect their land, environment and culture from destructive mining and logging.

Economy

• Repeal the GST, which increases the gap between the rich and the poor.

• Increase taxation on large companies and financial speculators.

• Develop a code of practice for international Australian companies and for multinational companies based in Australia.

• Democratise the WTO.

• Cancel IMF/WTO debts incurred by poor nations.

• Develop an international treaty on food security.

• Build the economy around sustainable regional communities not global markets.

• Support community banks.

• Ensure fair working conditions and oppose slave wages and work for the dole.

Health

• Restore public hospitals and nursing homes.

• Increase the medicare levy.

• Provide safe, efficient and free women's health centres.

• Demand accurate labelling of food products and genetically manipulated ingredients.

Education

• Ensure that tertiary education is available for all Australians through Austudy or scholarships for isolated students.

• Support compulsory student union fees so that students have the opportunity to have a tertiary education broader than book learning.

• Upgrade regional telecommunications.

Defence

• Direct defence expenditure to ensuring security for Australia and not to engaging in aggression against other countries.

Crime

• The significant increase in crime in our communities is mainly drug-related and will not be solved by increasing the numbers and powers of police. A more significant policy to reduce crime would be to legalise cannabis and heroin.

• Provide safe injecting havens for addicts.

• Zero tolerance for deaths in custody.

• Abolish mandatory sentencing.

• Oppose the reintroduction of the death penalty.

Environment

• Support regionally appropriate, ecologically sustainable development.

• Support preservation of the total ecosystem and viable seed banks.

• Protect wild places on the land and the sea.

• Introduce Clean Air and Clean Water legislation.

• Control agricultural salination and pollution from urban growth.

• Withdraw 20 years' resource security for woodchipping in Regional Forest Agreements.

• Buy marginal farmland for National Parks.

• Set up an inquiry into cotton farming.

• Stop subsidies for diesel.

• Legislate for humane treatment of animals.