Donald Trump Not Welcome Here!
Disgracefully, former Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull, and now current PM Scott Morrison, have invited US President Donald Trump to visit Australia. This is likely to occur after the APEC summit in PNG in November.
Donald Trump is a racist, misogynist, lying billionaire who is trying to drag global politics to the far right. His brand of extreme nationalism, Islamophobia, greed, anti-refugee, anti-immigrant, anti-women, anti-LGBTI, anti-union and anti-environment rhetoric and policies are abhorrent to the majority of the Australian public.
The Turnbull-Morrison government has aligned with Trump’s bigoted and militaristic global agenda at every opportunity. We want to see Australia distanced from Trump’s values. His values do not represent the interests of most people on the planet or the planet itself.
More than ever we need to join together in Australia and across borders to struggle for a world that respects the equal rights and wonderful diversity of humanity, protects our fragile environment and equitably shares the enormous wealth all around us.
We call on Scott Morrison to rescind Trump’s invitation to Australia and for the parliament to prohibit him from speaking if his visit goes ahead.
We pledge that if Trump does visit we will meet him with mass demonstrations to show our opposition to everything his Presidency stands for.
Statement signed by:
Scott Ludlam - Former Greens Senator for WA
Lee Rhiannon — Former Greens Senator for NSW
David Shoebridge — NSW Greens MLC University of Sydney Students’ Representative Council
Mark Pace- President National Union of Students
Imogen Grant — President, University of Sydney Students’ Representative Council
Stephen Smyth- President CFMEU QLD Energy and Mining Division
National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) - NSW Division
Professor Raymond Evans - Griffith University
Jeff Sparrow- Author and Journalist
Antony Loewenstein- Author and Filmmaker
Stop Adani Sydney
Stephen Jolly- Yarra Councillor and President of Victorian Socialists
Aran Mvlvaganam, Tamil Refugee Council Spokesperson and FSU Organiser
Michael Thomson, State Secretary, NSW National Tertiary Education Union
Craig McGregor, Secretary, Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association(VAHPA)
Victorian Socialists
Sydney Stop the War Coalition
Hersha Kadkol — National Ethno-Cultural Officer, National Union of Students
Jasmine Duff & Kim Stern — National LGBTI Officers, National Union of Students
Zac Solomon- President UNSW Students’ Representative Council
Stuart Traill- Electricity Supply Industry Coordinator ETU- QLD AND NT Branch
Dr Peter Slezak- Academic UNSW
Hall Greenland - Co-founder, NSW Greens
Hanan Dover- Muslim Community Advocate
Professor Heather Goodall, Professor Emerita, History - UTS
Whistleblowers, Activists and Citizens Alliance (WACA)
Lucia Sorbera- Senior Lecturer and Chair of Arabic Studies Department University of Sydney
Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH)
Sydney University Education Action Group (EAG)
Latin American Social Forum (LASF)
Friends of the Earth
Sue Bolton, Socialist Alliance councillor, Moreland City Council
Nick Reimer, Academic University of Sydney
Leonie Hendricks, Retired NSWNMA State Secretary
Lisa Milner, Academic Southern Cross University
Leonie Hendricks, QLD Greens/CPSU Organiser
Jenny Haines, Academic UTS
Jacob Grech, Renegade Activists
Barbara McGrady, Indigenous Photojournalist
David Brophy, Academic University of Sydney
Kirra Jackson, Vice President UTS Student Union
Pauline Pants-down
BDS Australia
Tim Nelthorpe, NUW Organiser
Patricia Cornelius,Playwright
Michael Schembri, advocate Finance Sector Union and gay left activist
Grandmothers Against Detention
CJPP- Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine
Close The Camps Action Collective
Cathy Peters, Convenor Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine
Michael Brull, Writer
Alex Bainbridge & Susan Price, National Co-Conveners, Socialist Alliance
Lizzie O’Shea, Social Justice Officer, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
UNSW Education Collective
Palestine Action Group Sydney (PAG)


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