Welcome to Red Star Australia

              The only sane and rational way for human beings to live together is according to the principle "One for all, all for one". Selfishness is learned from social experience, it is not part of human nature.

What is the situation?
              Australia has become a land of inequality, alienation, loneliness, and hidden hardship. Australia is one of the richest countries in the world which contains more than enough wealth for everyone. Therefore all our sufferings are man-made.
              Poverty is a relative concept. It can only exist where there is inequality. One cannot be poor unless another is rich, and vice-versa. There is great, and growing, inequality in Australia. For all the talk about abolishing poverty, we are actually generating more.

How is it being created?
              As Red Star's contribution to reaching the theoretical clarity necessary for effective action, we analyse here three very important causes of poverty and injustice in this country. These are:

• The attack on the wages, conditions and rights of employed workers (including the " Work Choices")
• The attack on the entitlements, and rights of unemployed workers (for example "Welfare to Work")
• The hypocrisy of those who claim to serve the public but who really only serve themselves.

What can be done?
              40,000 lives were lost in the terrible natural disaster which struck the shores of Sri Lanka in December 2004. A great deal can be learned from the way the Sri Lankans organised to face their adversity. In a less dramatic but equally tragic way, the poverty that has engulfed Australia today is washing away very many people's lives. The effects of poverty are usually hidden from view, suffered in private, so that others who are more fortunate even deny its widespread existence. This site is dedicated to stopping this unnatural, entirely unnecessary calamity.
              This great aim can only be achieved if Australians unite. Since this is a political question, politics cannot be avoided or left to the professional politicians. Neither can welfare be left to the caring professionals who claim to know more about it than anyone else.
The motive of service to the people should not be personal gain or payment. By the valiant actions of their members, Red Star Sri Lanka has already proved this to be no idealistic principle. We aim to carry their noble traditions to Australia, so none of the money donated to us is ever spent on wages or salaries.
              We hope you find something of interest or use on this site. Please contact us if you possess anything relevant which should you feel should be added. This might include your own story which we could print anonymously. You may without permission copy part or all of the original articles - we only ask that you credit 'Red Star Australia' as the source.
              We rely entirely on donations from the Australian people, so anything you can give would be gratefully received. Finally, if you wish to be put on our mailing list or join us, send us an email us to which we will respond. 

          Red Star is a voluntary non-profit association not connected to any Australian political party.