Petitions

A number of groups run petitions where people can register their support - or opposition - to a particular proposal. Sometimes it is directed at proposed legislation, at other times it addresses matters of concern in the community. When a petition is co-ordinated by an MP they can use the numbers to show that the community doesn't support proposed legislation and that can help them in their opposition to legislation.

Please sign the petitions below!

One of our reservations about petitions is that people might think ALL they need to do is sign the petition. However it is vitally important that we do other things such as contact our MPs directly or contact the governments about our concerns. 

Current petitions

Federal

Retain the Definition of Marriage Petition

The National Marriage Day Committee has organised a petition that seeks to protect marriage as being between a man and a woman.

Please download the petition and collect signatures . . . 
Click here to download petition.
Click here for the details of the petition including the following info...

- If you live in an electorate where someone is already co-ordinating the petition, you post the petition forms to them and they'll deliver them to the local MP.
- If your electorate doesn't have a co-ordinator, you can volunteer to be a 'petition co-ordinator'.

The deadline for the petition is November 9 - please ACT NOW!

Your electorate...
If you don't know your electorate, the Australian Electoral Commission has a special website where you find out! Click here. 
Type in your name and address. Click "Verify Enrolment" and your federal and state electorate details will be shown as well as your local government details. 

The Inquiry:
The Senate Committee is currently finalising its Inquiry into same-sex 'marriage'. They will report on November 26, 2009. [Click here for our Campaign page] 

Queensland - abortion

MP Liz Cunningham is organising a petition to oppose the decriminalisation of abortion in Queensland.
This petition is aimed at countering a petition by sponsored by Evan Moorhead MP which supports the decriminalisation of abortion.
A LOT more signatures are needed - currently there are 2,848 signatures.

Sign the petition - which is posted on the Queensland Parliament website by clicking here.

A pdf version of the petition has also been prepared:
Abortion in Queensland petition
Just print it out, collect signatures and post to the 'principal petitioner' - address is on the petition.

Victoria - Religious Exceptions

This petition is concerned with the current threat to religious exceptions in Victoria's Equal Opportunity Act. With Rob Hulls making a statement on the exceptions recently, it is vital that we affirm the right of faith-based schools to be able to employ ALL staff (not just those teaching 'religion') in accordance with their beliefs.

MP Inga Peulich has posted a petition on her website highlighting these objections - she is presenting petitions to the Parliament as they arrive. Please do this as soon as possible!

Please download the petition from her website - click here.
Just print and collect signatures and return to Inga Peulich MLC, 376 Nepean Highway, CHELSEA VIC 3196.

NSW - Decriminalisation of abortion

The Rev Hon Fred Nile MLC, Leader of the Christian Democratic Party, is co-ordinating a petition to ask the NSW parliament not to decriminalise abortion.
The petition: Anti Abortion Petition NSW
Please print it out, collect signatures and send to Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group, 9 Exeter Road, Homebush West NSW 2140.