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Anne Aly
Labor Candidate
for Cowan
Stood for the Greens at the
2007 election. 13
Labor candidates who want Wrote to the PM asking him to let the
to be Greens. refugees stay, close offshore processing and
cease boat “turnbacks”. 15
Sophie Ismail
Labor Candidate for Melbourne Terri Butler
One of the first media reports of Ismail’s Labor Member for Griffith
candidacy described her as “Labor candidate
for Melbourne admits I look like a Green”. Opposes the Adani Coal mine that was
supported by the State Labor Government.
Ms Ismail said of herself: Congratulates the Greens for their
environment policy (comments on Q&A,
“Adam Bandt looks like a Labor candidate 30 May 2016):
and I look like a Greens candidate… All of TERRI BUTLER: I don’t support the Adani mine
my friends vote Green, but obviously that either I’ve got to say. I mean fair play to our
strategy’s not working… We’re still treating state...
asylum seekers appallingly, we still don’t have RICHARD DI NATALE: Your party does.
marriage equality...” 14 TERRI BUTLER: No, fair play to our state
government. They didn’t have much discretion.
She has the same policy position as the They were using laws that had been amended
Greens on border protection by the Newman Government. But I don’t
support it and might I say this. It’s great that
Josh Wilson you have a good policy Richard. It’s absolutely
Labor Candidate for Fremantle fantastic.
Endorses Greens policies on asylum seekers
- opposes turnbacks, offshore processing
and forced Freemantle Council to sign up to
boycotts, divestment and sanctions against
offshore detention contractors.
Appeared prominently at a “Let them Stay”
rally with the radical “Refugee Rights Action
Network”.
8 The Greening of Labor
