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Ms SHING
Eastern Victoria

MEMBERS STATEMENTS
Australian marriage law postal survey

Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Australian marriage law postal survey

Ms SHING — I rise today to extend my support and love and respect to everybody in the LGBTI community across Victoria — people who are LGBTI themselves and their families, their children and their supporters. The ridiculous, hurtful, hateful, insulting and demeaning campaign being run under the apparent auspices of the non binding voluntary postal vote is causing enormous difficulties for people who every day, like me, have to grapple with the fact that many parts of society, at least in the most vocal and hateful terms, think there is something wrong, different or other about us that deserves to be called out and deserves to deny us the capacity to marry the ones we love. In that regard I would say: stay strong, you are loved, and there are many people who want marriage equality to succeed.