ECAJ backs the Yes Campaign
The Voice’s Yes 23 Campaign has welcomed to its ever-growing movement an alliance of over 120 multicultural groups who have united in support for Indigenous constitutional recognition through a Voice to Parliament.
Peter Wertheim
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry is one of those groups.
In further evidence of the breadth and depth of support across the Australian community for a positive result in this year’s referendum, Multicultural Australia for the Voice comprises ethnic and cultural community organisations who have signed a joint resolution backing a voice to Parliament.
The list of over 120 signatories includes the ECAJ, multiple Indian and Chinese community organisations, along with Sri Lankan, Italian, Irish, Iranian, Greek, Vietnamese, Filipino, Sikh, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist and Pacific Islander community groups.
Yes 23 Campaign Director Dean Parkin welcomed the diverse community organisations rallying behind a Voice to Parliament.
He said: “The Yes campaign for this year’s referendum brings an inspirational cross-section of Australians together. Efforts on the ground and support for a voice to Parliament by ethnic and cultural groups show momentum for a Yes vote continues to build nationwide.
This is an important and powerful sign of support from organisations that represent the spectrum of our diverse nation, which has become home to millions of people from around the world.
Everyone has a right to belong, and the supportive votes of Australians from diverse backgrounds will help secure a Yes result, update our Constitution and bring the nation closer together by connecting our multicultural present with our Indigenous heritage.”
The co-CEO of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Peter Wertheim, told J-Wire: “The referendum on constitutional recognition of First Nations Australians and a First Nations Voice raises questions which transcend political and cultural divides.
That is why so many multicultural and faith communities, which usually align with different sides of the political spectrum, have united to support the overwhelming majority of indigenous Australians in backing the referendum. All have insisted that the debate on this historic issue be conducted in a fair, informed and dignified manner all round, as befits our great democracy.
This responsibility falls on multicultural and faith community representatives as much as on our politicians and civil society.”
Massive chutzpah. Did they take a poll of the Jewish Community? Why do they conflate sympathy with the Aboriginal Communities with an “Animal Farm” Declaration which effectively defines a new version of equality in the Australian Constitution and inserts racial differences? They need reform – like that of the Israeli Legal system, which they also oppose on our behalf. Unrepresentative and self perpetuating.
Meanwhile aboriginal indigenous activists join muslims and pro Palestinian activism supporting Palestinians not Jews
Our woke Jewish communal leadership many of them bullies a total joke !