The Jewish vote has become a battleground in a heated council campaign in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, spurring claims the Liberal Party has sought to use the Jewish community as “political pawns.”
At the centre of the furore is a Liberal Party flyer, which has been slammed as “sectarian” and “offensive” by Labor, who claim it was distributed with the intention of damaging Labor’s standing within Waverley’s Jewish community.
The flyer, which was endorsed by the Liberal Party’s Waverley branch was dropped into thousands of letter boxes across the Waverley council electorate, ahead of Saturday’s council election.
Aimed at Waverley’s large Jewish population, where over 17 per cent of residents identify their religion as Judaism, the flyer juxtaposes a list of Liberal Party positions and policies concerning the Jewish community, with those purportedly held by Labor and the Greens.
Read the full article by Lisa Visentin at the Sydney Morning Herald.