It's Thursday night training at Father Dave Smith's boxing academy, op...
SYDNEY - It’s Thursday night training at Father Dave Smith’s boxing academy, opposite the Anglican church in inner-west Sydney he has led for almost 30 years, and he’s working off some frustration ahead of the May 18 federal election.
“For God’s sake, if we’ve reached the stage where we are talking about the danger of compassion then we’ve really lost our moral compass,” said Smith, who at 57 is also Australia’s oldest professional boxer, as he traded jabs with a sparring partner. John Black, the founder of demographic profiling company Australian Development Strategies and a former Labor senator, said while working families provide the grunt behind an election swing, religious voters can create the leverage to win battleground seats if convinced to vote as a bloc.
In a statement on election priorities, the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference said climate change, caring for the vulnerable and improving the plight of the country’s indigenous population should be on the minds of cathedral-going voters. Some policies that would tend to engage religious voters are not prominent this election, such as same-sex marriage, which was introduced in Australia in late 2017 after a public referendum showed widespread support.
“In terms of issues that bring Christians together, the treatment of refugees has been at the forefront, but climate change is catching up,” said Ormerod, who is Roman Catholic.
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