Voters urged to remember the needy

Catholic Social Services Victoria (CSSV) has issued a plea to voters in the state election in November to lobby candidates about families that are struggling to make ends meet, and those on the margins of society, writes Mark Brolly.

In a brochure published this week entitled “Mend the Net – Who will speak out if you don’t?” the leading body for Catholic community services in the second most populous state said: “The Church ... improves the well-being of the more than 200,000 people whom we work with in Victoria each year.” The state population is 5.76 million.

The CSSV insisted that, despite this work, it was “the Government’s responsibility to stop people falling through the safety net” and urged people to “show our parliamentary candidates what kind of a society we want to live in”, when they vote on 29 November.