Our Campaign THE Richmond seat is a traditional working class and labour stonghold. In recent years parts of it were supposed to have been yuppified making it difficult terrain for socialists. Other areas of the constituency have a big south Vietnamese population, who according to the pundits should be hostile to all socialist parties. Over 45 comrades and supporters worked at the polling booths on polling day. The other parties had to pay people to do their canvassing work.
Comrades have deep roots in Richmond.
Our candidate Steve Jolly helped lead the famous Richmond School struggle a few years ago. We also have a high profile and much respect for our on-going Heroin campaign. The papers reflected some of this grassroots support. We got fantastic coverage . The Melbourne Times implicitly encouraged people to vote for Steve.