Victorian Election candidates discuss adoption equality for same-sex couples

Victorian Election candidates discuss adoption equality for same-sex couples

THE latest Victorian Election Meet the Candidates video from the Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, Pride TV and Star Observer looks at adoption equality.

In the video, VGLRL co-convener Corey Irlam asks the candidates how their party will address the inequality in adoption laws in Victoria, especially for same-sex couples.

Responses come from the Sex Party’s Fiona Patten, the Greens’ Sam Hibbins, the Liberal’s Clem Newtown-Brown and Labor’s Martin Foley.

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3 responses to “Victorian Election candidates discuss adoption equality for same-sex couples”

  1. Conservatives members of the East Gippsland Shire have just voted in a Mayor who is a member of Family First. His first act, with the support of conservatives, was to vote down a diversity plan for the region.

    There are two LNP parties. The LNP in the city might pretend it is progressive, but it advocates hate crimes in regional areas by allowing members to stay in the party who genuinely make life hard. In the election campaign they are preferencing every radical hate group that seeks to destroy GLBTI Australians ahead of the Greens. The Attorney General, Robert Clark, told parliament homosexuality is a sick and destructive disease. The adoption scandal punishing orphans by placing them with religious bodies is child abuse, when GLBTI can provide a loving home, and they already look after children through foster care and welfare work. Saying “We will look at gay adoption” is a bit like Tony Abbott promising to look at gay marriage. Still no conscience vote, and the LNP in Victoria must be judged by their actions, not what we might hope them to be.

    The first hate crime was committed by the LNP in Victoria destroying the Equal Opprtunity act, changing it so government funded religious businesses can discriminate against thousands of GLBTI people who work in everything from soup kitchens to personal care. Even the so called progressive Clem Newton Brown voted to turn back the clock.

    While the LNP slips away into Australia’s ugly hateful past, expunging a few records while committing children to child abuse in institutions because homophobia and transphobia are still core values of the party, does not cut it with me. Not all records will be expunged, as police usually charged people with a variety of offences after bashing them. The expunging will be limited. We need a a royal Commission into the hate crimes by police. Of course the man you have to seek permission for your record to be expunged is the same tool who told parliament the homosexual lifestyle is sick and destructive, Robert Clark.

    I am tired of the LNP lying every election, and delivering misery. Out in regional areas young GLBTI people take their own life at much higher rates as the public voice is one of hate from conservatives. Why the haters are still aceppted in the party is beyond me. But out in regional Australia they continue to make life hard, and continue to be the final push for some who are doing it tough.

    Why support cults like Family First, why support fundamentalist who seek to make life that much more difficult? I think the answer is the LNP still has a long way to go, and although some are good people, the party as a whole is living in the hateful past, not the present and not the future.

  2. Adoption for same sex couples is still banned in 4 places in Australia -VIC, QLD, SA and the NT!

    Why in 2014 Victoria still bans it?

    A Victorian Report into adoption and assisted reproductive technology back in 2007 “recommended” same sex couples should be allowed to adopt children. 7 years later NOTHING has changed!

    Back in March of 2014 the VIC Labor Conference “unanimously” passed a motion to pass legislation in the VIC Parliament to legally allow same sex couples adopting children, HIV law reforms and to recognise international same sex marriages and interstate relationships on the current 2008 VIC relationship register!

    NT and QLD are “redneck” states – so nothing will change in these places!

    Also SA are “looking and reviewing into the gay adoption issue” on adoption reform!