Jess Moore for Cunningham

Jess Moore, well-known community activist and part-time worker, will contest the seat of Cunningham in the federal elections. Moore, a member of Socialist Alliance, is a leading climate and renewable energy campaigner. She is active in the struggle for marriage equality and helped found the Illawarra Aboriginal Rights Group. Moore was president of the Wollongong Undergraduate Students' Association in 2006 and is the national co-ordinator of Resistance, a socialist youth organisation.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Liberals forced to pull misleading Google ads

From Green Left Weekly. By Chris Williams

The Liberal Party has pulled controversial Google advertisements after criticism and complaints from candidates standing against them. When Google users searched for the names of many candidates running in lower-house seats — including Socialist Alliance candidate for Cunningham, Jess Moore, who raised the issue in the national media — the first link to appear was a sponsored link to a Liberal Party website.

Moore told Green Left Weekly: “People who are trying to find out what the candidates stand for are being mis-directed to the Liberal Party's anti-worker and anti-social policies.

“This kind of dishonesty and manipulation should be condemned by all those who believe in open and democratic elections. Rather than debate us, the Liberals are buying sponsored links to confuse and mislead people.

For full article visit http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45142