<H2><b>JEFF KENNETT, JOHN SEARLE, BOTH WELL PAST THEIR USE-BY DATES - TIME TO RETIRE, EVEN IF NOT GRACEFULLY!!!!</b></H2>

Jeff Kennett has disgraced himself yet again with his beyondblue stories and his interview with David McCarthy at Joy Radio concerning Kennett's comments about gay families and the previous ones about paedophilia and homosexuality.

McCarthy's attempts to whitewash Kennett were also a disgrace and do Joy Radio no credit for hosting such a discussion.

Kennett ruined Victoria in the days when he was premier and he has done nothing since to alter the community's opinions about him. He closed hospitals, schools, railways, and performed all sorts of other disservices to the state and the country which caused the depressions and suicides which beyondblue is supposed to assist.

Gays, lesbians, transgenders, HIVs (GLTH) were never part of beyondblue's briefs as a previous CEO, Leonie Young, demonstrated when tasked with providing service modules for GLTH communities who might have had depression or suicidal ideation problems. Kennett's relationship with the organisation only aggravated an already troubled situation.

The other relic of a bygone day, another homophobe who is supposedly making overtures to the GLTH communities, has failed at the first hurdle. John Searle seems unable to establish any sort of contact or working relationship with Aleph, the Jewish Gay group, and there seems to be no evidence that Searle has any relationship with the Jewish Lesbian Group of Victoria either. So where does this leave him, with his "anonymous" GLTH "Reference Group" which is supposed to be responding to the submissions received at JCCV's request in August, for which it received "about six submissions"

How do you receive "about six"??? You either receive 4, or 5, or 6, or more!! But not Searle!!

Is it not time that GLTH members of our communities who happen to be Jewish or who happen to need assistance with depression or suicidal intentions found organisations which willingly provide assistance without any discriminatory problems such as those associated with organisations such as beyonblue and Jewish Community Council of Victoria (sic)?