Jess Moore
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Jess Moore is a well-known community activist and part-time worker and a leading climate and renewable energy campaigner in Wollongong. She is a member of the Socialist Alliance
and is active in the struggle for marriage equality and helped found the Illawarra Aboriginal Rights Group, set up in response to the Northern Territory intervention
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Moore was President of the Wollongong Undergraduate Students' Association in 2006 and was the national co-ordinator of Resistance
, a socialist youth organisation, in 2010.
While President of WUSA, Moore received a phonecall from the police informing her that she was under investigation for her activism on campus, around anti-war/Palestinian self-determination campaigns. The investigation made national and international news.
In 2011, Moore won the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales “Rising Star” award for being the “most outstanding campaigner under the age of 30” for her involvement in groups such as Stop CSG Illawarra. Moore is widely recognised as a public face and spokesperson of the campaign.
Moore has run as a Socialist Alliance candidate in the Division of Cunningham
for the Australian federal election, 2007 and Australian federal election, 2010 and as a candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Council
in the New South Wales state election, 2011
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Socialist Alliance (Australia)
The Socialist Alliance was founded in 2001 as an alliance of socialist organisations and individuals in Australia, initiated by the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the International Socialist Organisation along with 6 other founding socialist organisations, to create greater left unity in the...
and is active in the struggle for marriage equality and helped found the Illawarra Aboriginal Rights Group, set up in response to the Northern Territory intervention
Northern Territory National Emergency Response
The Northern Territory National Emergency Response was a package of changes to welfare provision, law enforcement, land tenure and other measures, introduced by the Australian federal government under John Howard in 2007 to address claims of rampant child sexual abuse and neglect in Northern...
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Moore was President of the Wollongong Undergraduate Students' Association in 2006 and was the national co-ordinator of Resistance
Resistance (socialist youth organisation)
Resistance is a Revolutionary Socialist youth organisation with its national headquarters in Sydney. Resistance is an independent affiliate of the Socialist Alliance with a strong historical relationship with the Democratic Socialist Perspective, which dissolved into the Socialist Alliance in...
, a socialist youth organisation, in 2010.
While President of WUSA, Moore received a phonecall from the police informing her that she was under investigation for her activism on campus, around anti-war/Palestinian self-determination campaigns. The investigation made national and international news.
In 2011, Moore won the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales “Rising Star” award for being the “most outstanding campaigner under the age of 30” for her involvement in groups such as Stop CSG Illawarra. Moore is widely recognised as a public face and spokesperson of the campaign.
Moore has run as a Socialist Alliance candidate in the Division of Cunningham
Division of Cunningham
The Division of Cunningham is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1949 and is named for Allan Cunningham, a 19th century explorer of New South Wales and Queensland. It is located on the coast of New South Wales between southern Sydney and Wollongong, and...
for the Australian federal election, 2007 and Australian federal election, 2010 and as a candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Council
New South Wales Legislative Council
The New South Wales Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of New South Wales in Australia. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is referred to as the lower house and the Council as...
in the New South Wales state election, 2011
New South Wales state election, 2011
Elections to the 55th Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday, 26 March 2011. The 16-year incumbent Australian Labor Party government led by Premier Kristina Keneally was defeated in a landslide by the Liberal-National coalition opposition led by Barry O'Farrell.New South Wales has...
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