Join us this May Day to tell the Labor Party that we will not accept the manipulation of policy to suit their privatisation agenda.
Labor Party policy clearly states: “Labor opposes the private contract management of prisons.”
Corrective Services Minister John Robertson is trying to get ALP HQ to say that selling off Cessnock and Parklea prisons to international companies to run does not breach Labor policy.
When the powerful ALP Administrative Committee meets this Friday morning, Minister Robertson wants them to agree with his topsy turvy argument.
If this happens the Party would be manipulating policy to say that black is white and up is down.
Prisons should not be run for profit. Private prisons will hurt local communities - jobs will be lost and safety will be compromised.
The Administrative Committee is meeting on May Day – the International Day of the Worker - to vote on the ‘re-interpretation’ of policy.
Come along and hold Labor to its policy of opposing private prisons!