ALEPH MELBOURNE MEDIA RELEASE 2016 VOTERS GUIDE FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY IN JEWISH MELBOURNE June 21 2016
Aleph Melbourne proudly announces its 2016 Voters Guide for Marriage Equality in Jewish Melbourne.
Following on from the successful 2013 edition, this voters guide is an essential resource for the savvy voter who is keen on prioritising equality for same-sex attracted, intersex and gender diverse people.
The guide covers the electorates of Goldstein, Higgins, Hotham, Kooyong, Melbourne Ports and Menzies. These electorates are selected as they span the suburbs where Melbourne’s Jewish community are predominantly located.
Individual candidates’ positions are provided where known along with links to party and social media profiles.
A list of supportive senate candidates will be added in coming days.
A range of resources are provided in the guide to allow further research into the key issues around achieving equality and organisations that are working to help achieve it.
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Following on from the announcement of Bialik College becoming the first school in Australia to declare support for marriage equality, the school’s principal Jeremy Stowe-Lindner has issued the following statement on their Facebook page:
Ordinarily this use of LGBTI people would not bother me but given Australia doesn’t have LGBTI equality and given your organisation exists to promote the welfare (eg equality) of Australians, it seems you’re taking a liberty with the liberties LGBTI Australians don’t yet have.
NOTES that it is the vision of the ECAJ to create and support a community in which all Australians, including all Jewish Australians:
(a) feel valued and their cultural differences are respected;
(b) have a fair opportunity to meet their material and other needs; and
(c) are equally empowered as citizens to participate in and contribute to all facets of life in the wider community;
Right now I’m not feeling especially valued, not do I have fair opportunity to meet my needs, and am not empowered to participate in or contribute to all facets of life in the wider community. I am sure I speak for others too.
On this particular ground, I’d really like your organisation to sign its name to marriage equality so LGBTI people in Australia can have equal rights, similarly to those of the people you are so proud to show off in your open letter.
To this end, Australian Marriage Equality have provided a simple mechanism to facilitate your addition to their list of over 800 supporters:
