Socialist Alliance for Inner West Council

10/05/2024

Rachel Evans is running for Lord Mayor for Sydney City Council in the NSW local government elections. She is a disability support worker.

She helped initiate the grassroots marriage equality campaign, is a housing co-operative tenant and is involved in the Palestine solidarity movement, helping establish the City of Sydney for Palestine group.

Rachel is involved in Palestine solidarity and helped establish the City of Sydney for Palestine group.

She was instrumental in pushing the immediate, permanent ceasefire motion through Sydney Council in December 2023.

She is active in the campaign to defend public housing, by fighting demolition threats in Waterloo, Glebe and Eveleigh.

She has been a socialist for 20 years, organising against crisis-capitalism , its wars, oppression and environment destruction.

10/05/2024

18/09/2023

01/12/2021

Vote [1] Socialist Alliance for Inner West Council to help combat cost of living pressures.

IWC is up against budgetary pressures, but it cannot succumb to a user-pays approach.

To that end, it should:

=> Push for full funding of council services by state and federal governments.

=> Instigate a sliding scale of council rates indexed to household income.

=> End the privatisation and outsourcing of council services.

=> Where a service is provided by council, pass on state government rebates to help with water and rates bills.

=> Expand meals on wheels food delivery service without aged care referrals.

=> Establish an office to help gig economy/self-employed workers know their rights.

=> Promote the establishment of food cooperatives to distribute local produce at a low cost, particularly to those in need; reinvest profit in green projects.

More information here: https://socialist-alliance.org/elections/local/2021/election-campaign/people-profit-2021-inner-west-council-election-campaign

01/12/2021

Pip Hinman spoke at the Sydney Alliance event on housing affordability.

29/11/2021

Vote [1] for Socialist Alliance for Inner West Council for real climate action: 100% renewable energy by 2030.

To that end, IWC should:

=> Encourage renewable energy use throughout the local government area.

=> Mandate new developments to meet the highest ratings of ecological sustainability.

• Work towards a municipal energy company to work on providing cheap electricity, retrofitting homes, and promote solar panel cooperatives.

=> Initiate tree-planting programs; support efforts to grow verges; preserve local greenspaces and waterways; and rehabilitate degraded environments.

=> Convert town halls into “heat relief centres” during heatwaves.

=> Revitalise unused council depots for urban food farming and gardens.

=> Mandate an environmentally sustainable and ethical procurement policy.

=> Improve recycling and reuse programs; and mandate recycling for local commercial and industrial tenants.

=> Subsidise energy and water audits.

=> Adopt the former Marrickville Council’s policy of opposing unconventional gas in New South Wales; and promote the existing position against lifting the ban on uranium mining.

=> Prevent heritage trees from being destroyed.

More information here: https://socialist-alliance.org/elections/local/2021/election-campaign/people-profit-2021-inner-west-council-election-campaign

29/11/2021

Happy to sign the United Services Union pledge to keep council jobs. Outsourcing council-run services — community assets — only helps the corporations; it's a form of privatisation.

28/11/2021

Opinion piece by Pip Hinman, Socialist Alliance in the City Hub Sydney:

Opinion By PIP HINMAN The NSW Coalition and NSW Labor voted on November 23 to gift developers another opportunity to tip the scales in their favour and away from local residents and local government. They decided to remove councils’ ability to charge for compliance investigations, despite warnings

27/11/2021

Pip Hinman, Socialist Alliance is quoted here talking about some reasons to vote YES to de-amalgamate. Thanks to City Hub Sydney for including her in the piece.