MEDIA RELEASE
20 April 2025
ALEPH MELBOURNE LAUNCHES 2025 AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION VOTERS GUIDE FOR LGBTIQA+ EQUALITY
Aleph Melbourne is proud to announce its 2025 Australian Federal Election Voters Guide for LGBTIQA+ Equality.
The Voters Guide is designed to inform voters in Melbourne’s predominantly Jewish suburbs who want to select candidates who have comprehensively demonstrated or pledged support for LGBTIQA+ equality and inclusion.
This election the guide covers Victorian electoral divisions (as per October 2024 electoral boundaries) with 1000 or more people with Jewish religious affiliation as at the 2021 census. The selected divisions are Chisholm*, Goldstein, Hotham, Isaacs, Kooyong, Macnamara and Melbourne*.
* Included due to the abolition and redistribution of the division of Higgins.
LINKS
- https://aleph.org.au/2025/04/18/aleph-melbourne-2025-voters-guide-for-lgbtiq-equality-australian-federal-election
- https://bit.ly/aleph2025federalelectionvotersguide
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KEY FEATURES
- Individual candidate statements indicating commitment to LGBTIQA+ issues
- Indicators advising whether a candidate is LGBTIQA+, an ally, or opposed to LGBTIQA+ equality
- Indicators advising whether a candidate is Jewish, or is perceived to hold antisemitic views
- Links to candidate/party platform/policies on LGBTIQA+ issues
- Links to How To Vote cards
We encourage voters to locate their voting district, review their candidates’ levels of support for LGBTIQA+ issues and vote in a manner that prioritises LGBTIQA+ equality.
The guide will be continually updated as more candidate information comes in, or as developments on candidates arise.
HISTORY
This guide is the eighth in our series of election guides since 2013:
- 2013 Voters Guide to Marriage Equality in Jewish Melbourne
- 2016 Voters Guide to Marriage Equality in Jewish Melbourne
- 2018 Victorian State Election Voters Guide for LGBTIQ Equality
- 2019 Voters Guide for LGBTIQ Equality
- 2020 Local Council Election Voters Guide
- 2022 Federal Election Voters Guide
- 2022 Victorian State Election Voters Guide for LGBTIQ+ Equality
- 2025 Australian Federal Election Voters Guide for LGBTIQA+ Equality
MEDIA CONTACT
Michael Barnett OAM
0417-595-541
contact@aleph.org.au
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