The security of the records of our most significant, personal moments is under threat. The Victorian Government is considering privatising the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
 
The publicly owned Registry and the people who work there are the custodians of our precious records. They record every birth, every marriage and every death that occurs in our state and assist with recognition of relationships, name changes and gender affirmation.

They are the keepers of our truths.

The Victorian Government is looking for a quick cash injection to repair the Budget and has its sights on commercial interests gaining a stake in Births, Deaths and Marriages.

Our private details and records should not be in private hands, at the mercy of profit-making interests who’ll want a return for their injection of billions of their corporation’s dollars.
 
Selling all or even part of Births, Deaths and Marriages, which currently returns more than $10 million a year to Victoria, is short-sighted and an abandonment of the principles on which this Government was elected.
 
The Victorian Government must drop any plans to privatise or commercialise the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
 
Please sign the petition and tell Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas to keep our private records in public hands.