Funding to public libraries in Victoria MUST NOT be cut! Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/funding-to-public-libraries-in-victoria-must-not-be-cut.html Online petition signatures en-us Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:39 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Ms Caroline Crider [Signature #1301] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15040105?utm_medium=rss Libraries are chalk full of positivitiy and bring warmth and a place of refuge to members of a community. It is a disgrace that libraries are being cut due to governmental debt, which simply should NOT be resolved by greatly impairing a community center, educational resources, and jobs.

]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:43:24 UTC 15040105 mr Nathan Combes [Signature #1300] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14152331?utm_medium=rss YOU BASTARDS

]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:39:13 UTC 14152331 Mr vincent Marty [Signature #1299] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14107196?utm_medium=rss I would like to invite you to view my petitions for the support of injured workers in Australia and their rights, and decide if you wish to sign on one or both and if you could kindly pass the links around to your family, friends, co-workers...( may be your supporters too as my petitions truly concern all) ...as you know it is hard to promote a petition and any legal ways to do so should be exploited...thank you for your understanding
www.communityrun.org/p/classaction15
and
www.communityrun.org/p/royalcommission
Thanks

Vincent

]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 02:55:49 UTC 14107196 ms Anonymous [Signature #1298] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13935658?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:45:35 UTC 13935658 Ms Clare Hooton [Signature #1297] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13173303?utm_medium=rss Sun, 24 Jun 2012 01:28:24 UTC 13173303 Mrs Joanne Brownscombe [Signature #1296] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13111670?utm_medium=rss Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:41:42 UTC 13111670 Ms Kerry Kirk [Signature #1295] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13110957?utm_medium=rss Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:54:13 UTC 13110957 Ben Tan [Signature #1294] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12943206?utm_medium=rss Tue, 29 May 2012 10:03:01 UTC 12943206 Mrs Laura Affat [Signature #1293] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12933866?utm_medium=rss My daughter and I regulalrly visit the libraries in Bayside and Glen Eira.
Whilst e-books abound, this is great shared time and shared activity for the 2 of us and we have nurtured a love of reading together.
Dont close the libraries

]]> Tue, 29 May 2012 06:30:12 UTC 12933866 Ms Anne Tsang [Signature #1292] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12917304?utm_medium=rss Sat, 26 May 2012 05:05:22 UTC 12917304 Mrs Ashley Sutherland [Signature #1291] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12004298?utm_medium=rss Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:23:33 UTC 12004298 Simon Bottomley [Signature #1290] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11986649?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:34:04 UTC 11986649 Heidi Babatsikos [Signature #1289] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11985975?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:34:22 UTC 11985975 Ms Anonymous [Signature #1288] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11884443?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:11:01 UTC 11884443 Ms Rebekkah Brookes [Signature #1287] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11822407?utm_medium=rss Thu, 8 Dec 2011 08:51:30 UTC 11822407 Ms Linda Ottery [Signature #1286] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11427232?utm_medium=rss Tue, 1 Nov 2011 03:23:59 UTC 11427232 MISS TAHLI ASHKANASY [Signature #1285] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11290493?utm_medium=rss Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:11:11 UTC 11290493 Jenny Ballard [Signature #1284] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11289349?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:40:10 UTC 11289349 MR Tyce Markovich [Signature #1283] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11064769?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:39:26 UTC 11064769 MR Kenneth Strachan [Signature #1282] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11064638?utm_medium=rss Frequent user of the public Library system, the place to find ALMOST anything. INvaluable to NEW residents.

]]> Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:58:51 UTC 11064638 Ms doreen Jenkins [Signature #1281] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11064480?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:59:56 UTC 11064480 Dr Anonymous [Signature #1280] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11029777?utm_medium=rss libraries - a key community access for information and the worlds of the mind and heart. Would you seek to impoverish our community further with decisions that reduce understanding and increase reliance on the commercial print media? If the answer is yes, pity help our community as it struggles with not knowing, just being told half truths.

]]> Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:22:05 UTC 11029777 Ms Karen Hammon [Signature #1279] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11017216?utm_medium=rss They should keep on giving money to the libraries to buy lots of new books for children to keep them happy!
(Written by my 10 year old daughter, Paige)

]]> Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:59:08 UTC 11017216 MRS Sue Sambrooks [Signature #1278] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10999055?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:50:07 UTC 10999055 Mr Martin Witney [Signature #1277] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10994532?utm_medium=rss Libraries are essential for all members of the community. They provide the younger citizens the opportunity to learn key literacy skills whilst also providing a source of information and pleasure for older readers. Government funding is essential for their upkeep and it would be a waste to abandon them due to mismanagement.

]]> Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:47:53 UTC 10994532 Miss Sharon Jensen [Signature #1276] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10992953?utm_medium=rss I believe it is unfair to cut funding to
something which is beneficial to the
general public. Not everyone has access
to the internet or ebooks.

]]> Sun, 14 Aug 2011 05:53:21 UTC 10992953 Mrs Melissa Mckeown [Signature #1275] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10987391?utm_medium=rss We, the undersigned, call on the Baillieu Government not to make cuts to the current levels of State Government funding to all Victorian local libraries, as they are an invaluable and vital service to all communities.

]]> Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:30:27 UTC 10987391 mrs Anonymous [Signature #1274] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10987011?utm_medium=rss we need the libraries badly

]]> Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:25:15 UTC 10987011 Ms Helen Lehocz [Signature #1273] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10986644?utm_medium=rss Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:36:55 UTC 10986644 ms Dianne Mckinnon [Signature #1272] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10986614?utm_medium=rss Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:13:36 UTC 10986614 Mrs Wilma Johnstone [Signature #1271] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10986454?utm_medium=rss Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:21:52 UTC 10986454 Ms Robin Rankin [Signature #1270] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10985912?utm_medium=rss Please do not proceed with slashing our library's funding. Our library is one of the few facilities retired /older folk can go for so many wonderful facilities and can gain access (especially important for remote and isolated residents) to all sorts of support ensuring we are in touch with important political and cultural issues. It is a place that brings us all together; young, old, disabled, migrant, indigenous etc without fear or favour.

]]> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:58:26 UTC 10985912 Mrs Virginia Campbell [Signature #1269] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10983265?utm_medium=rss Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:08:53 UTC 10983265 ms maureen ford [Signature #1268] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10982435?utm_medium=rss We need to fund and support our libraries so all can have access to educating themselves through books and internet, not just the privileged. The homeless, poor,
and pensioners who cannot afford a computer or purchase books - please don't forget these wonderful people.

]]> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:27:33 UTC 10982435 Mr Richard Pew [Signature #1267] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10982215?utm_medium=rss I strongly object to these very shortsighted proposed funding cuts to such an important community resource. Libraries provide an essential recreational, educational and social resource, available to all. The ability to access reference material for study or research purposes is vital to our community development, for both young and old. Reading books gives pleasure, and peace of mind. Reading has been the window to my life for self education, information and recreational enjoyment . I am 82.

]]> Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:05:56 UTC 10982215 Ms Jo Williams [Signature #1266] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10982207?utm_medium=rss Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:00:17 UTC 10982207 Ms Aileen Vening [Signature #1265] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10981407?utm_medium=rss Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:43:49 UTC 10981407 mrs Anonymous [Signature #1264] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10981387?utm_medium=rss *Libraries are a community must, with a small child we borrow countless books to stimulate development and spend time in a fun learning environment,this would not be an option without a library.
*Libraries evolve with the times, look at ebooks etc, they are still relevant.
*Able to have access to and enjoy the latest books, dvds and music cds which are available to the whole community
*Rural regions need libraries as they provide a source of not readily available arts

]]> Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:38:04 UTC 10981387 Mrs Peter Holliday [Signature #1263] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10978839?utm_medium=rss Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:36:10 UTC 10978839 Mrs Glenda Holliday [Signature #1262] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10978832?utm_medium=rss Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:33:42 UTC 10978832 Mr Tony` Redmond [Signature #1261] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10978484?utm_medium=rss Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:12:16 UTC 10978484 ms Irina Madden [Signature #1260] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10978132?utm_medium=rss Perhaps politicians don't need public libraries but everyone else does. From our youngest citizens to our most elderly, public libraries are a much valued part of people's lives. We expect our governments to recognize and support this.

]]> Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:08:32 UTC 10978132 Ms Jan Menkhorst [Signature #1259] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10977992?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:21:31 UTC 10977992 Ian Hayward [Signature #1258] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10977766?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:49:42 UTC 10977766 Mr Mathew Moran-Kent [Signature #1257] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10976869?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:28:10 UTC 10976869 Mrs Danielle Banfield [Signature #1256] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10975203?utm_medium=rss Libraries aren't just a place for books. The services available help a wide variety of people from story time for tots to job seekers using the Internet.

]]> Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:58:41 UTC 10975203 Mr Ronald Nicholls [Signature #1255] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10974868?utm_medium=rss I am an avid reader of 3 to 4 books a month,mostly historical,FBI J Edgar Hoover,,MI5,Korean war,Lord Nelson and numerous crime leaders as well as fictional stories. As a 76yr old pensioner,it would be devastating if these services were reduced to us older persons or younger people also.

]]> Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:46:03 UTC 10974868 ms Claudia de Quadros [Signature #1254] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10974611?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:03:15 UTC 10974611 Dr Jean Thomp;son [Signature #1253] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10974003?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:32:27 UTC 10974003 mrs mary tehan [Signature #1252] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10973813?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 11:37:29 UTC 10973813 ms kay cole [Signature #1251] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10973626?utm_medium=rss Funding should be tied to costs i.e. salaries in libraries. Not just a percentage increase each year.

]]> Tue, 9 Aug 2011 10:03:59 UTC 10973626 Ms Christine Peters [Signature #1250] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10973480?utm_medium=rss Libraries are vital - their provision forms part of health and education services, at a minimal cost.

]]> Tue, 9 Aug 2011 08:15:00 UTC 10973480 Ms Marise de Quadros [Signature #1249] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10973402?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 07:36:07 UTC 10973402 Miss Libby Skidmore [Signature #1248] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10973344?utm_medium=rss Libraries are too important to neglect. In a time of greater leisure we must have the resources that a library supplies to enhance our work life balance in creative and productive ways.

]]> Tue, 9 Aug 2011 07:05:29 UTC 10973344 Mr , Mrs John & Denise KING [Signature #1247] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10973339?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 07:02:55 UTC 10973339 Mrs Joanne Throup [Signature #1246] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10973328?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 06:59:03 UTC 10973328 Karin Q [Signature #1245] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10973292?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 06:40:41 UTC 10973292 mrs maria rawles [Signature #1244] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10973273?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 06:31:54 UTC 10973273 Ms Judith Morrison [Signature #1243] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10973270?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 06:30:50 UTC 10973270 Mrs Sarah Vidaic [Signature #1242] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10973220?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 06:13:32 UTC 10973220 Miss Kathryn Smith [Signature #1241] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10971527?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 08:09:23 UTC 10971527 Rachel Harris [Signature #1240] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10971380?utm_medium=rss We use our pub library every week at least

]]> Tue, 9 Aug 2011 07:07:27 UTC 10971380 Miss Kimberley Kelly [Signature #1239] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10971259?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 06:29:31 UTC 10971259 Mr Stanley Rusiniak [Signature #1238] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10971199?utm_medium=rss My wife and I are very concerned with these intended cuts and the continuing decline in education standards and outcomes through the decline in expediture on education and resources shuch as Victorian local libraries.
Make a stand rather that backward stepping

]]> Tue, 9 Aug 2011 06:11:15 UTC 10971199 Mrs Dianne Dickie [Signature #1237] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10971175?utm_medium=rss No funding cuts

]]> Tue, 9 Aug 2011 06:04:56 UTC 10971175 Mr Marc Lawless [Signature #1236] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10971172?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 06:04:37 UTC 10971172 Mr Michael Dickie [Signature #1235] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10971170?utm_medium=rss support our libraries

]]> Tue, 9 Aug 2011 06:03:14 UTC 10971170 Anonymous [Signature #1234] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10970889?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 04:26:14 UTC 10970889 Daryl Marshman [Signature #1233] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10970631?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 02:43:33 UTC 10970631 Mrs Bronwen La Gerche [Signature #1232] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10970489?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 01:21:22 UTC 10970489 Mrs. Catriona Pickett. [Signature #1231] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10969998?utm_medium=rss Astonished and appalled at shortsightedness of cutting funding and therefore resources to libraries.
Regional areas and towns particularly depend heavily on their (excellent) local libraries.All ages use them.Many smller towns have no alternative to what the library offers. INCREASE FUNDING - THAT WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE.

]]> Mon, 8 Aug 2011 08:41:14 UTC 10969998 Ms Tanya Brereton [Signature #1230] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10969836?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Aug 2011 07:26:59 UTC 10969836 Claire Wallder [Signature #1229] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10967091?utm_medium=rss I once read that anybady could be well spoken, well mannered and well read, regardless of income. These spening cuts put in jeopardy that last statement. I thought we were the clever country.

]]> Mon, 8 Aug 2011 06:40:04 UTC 10967091 Mrs Jan Quigley [Signature #1228] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10966813?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Aug 2011 05:32:53 UTC 10966813 Ms Natasha Mitchell [Signature #1227] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10966812?utm_medium=rss Libraries are important social hubs and learning centres for the community. They are doing a great job of meeting the communities needs & require constant funding to maintain these services and improve/respond to change. Why cut funding to such an important community resource?

]]> Mon, 8 Aug 2011 05:32:51 UTC 10966812 Mrs Tina Allen [Signature #1226] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10966786?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Aug 2011 05:26:38 UTC 10966786 Mrs Moya Allen [Signature #1225] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10965919?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Aug 2011 01:18:10 UTC 10965919 Alex Spiller [Signature #1224] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10965825?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Aug 2011 12:35:37 UTC 10965825 Rev Len Firth [Signature #1223] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10965294?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Aug 2011 09:23:26 UTC 10965294 Mrs Brenda Harrison [Signature #1222] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10965081?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Aug 2011 08:34:58 UTC 10965081 r Robert Mortimer [Signature #1221] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10965052?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Aug 2011 08:28:21 UTC 10965052 Mr Bill Yendle [Signature #1220] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10965042?utm_medium=rss With our very rapidly expanding town, MORE
and Certainly NOT LESS funding is vital to maintain our library serice to our community

]]> Sun, 7 Aug 2011 08:25:44 UTC 10965042 Ms Anushka Chandramohan [Signature #1219] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10964109?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Aug 2011 06:16:05 UTC 10964109 Daphne Prince [Signature #1218] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10963514?utm_medium=rss Libraries are particularly important to country residents where fewer cultural opportunities are available to residents. Starving libraries of funds will contribute to the growth of Melbourne and the decline of country towns

]]> Sun, 7 Aug 2011 05:26:38 UTC 10963514 Ms Megan Barker [Signature #1217] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10963159?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Aug 2011 03:23:47 UTC 10963159 Mr Stan Hewish [Signature #1216] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10961259?utm_medium=rss Public libraries are very important to all local communities'
Please reconsider this funding proposal.

]]> Sun, 7 Aug 2011 04:24:18 UTC 10961259 Ms Anonymous [Signature #1215] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10961118?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Aug 2011 03:04:03 UTC 10961118 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #1214] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10960993?utm_medium=rss Communities need libraries. Libraries need funding, staff and resources. Libraries need to grow too as populations grow!

]]> Sun, 7 Aug 2011 02:07:30 UTC 10960993 Mr Bernard Brown [Signature #1213] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10960942?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Aug 2011 01:45:27 UTC 10960942 Mrs Margaret Brown [Signature #1212] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10960921?utm_medium=rss Funding for our libraries is a necessity. Don't take it away. We have enough distance to travel to services now, we need our libraries close to us and available for plenty of hours.

]]> Sun, 7 Aug 2011 01:35:52 UTC 10960921 Josie Kent [Signature #1211] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10960691?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:27:14 UTC 10960691 Mr Chi-on Leung [Signature #1210] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10957643?utm_medium=rss Library is a vital resource to the community and our children. Don't cut its budget!

]]> Sat, 6 Aug 2011 03:42:45 UTC 10957643 Mrs Marion Wellwood [Signature #1209] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10957200?utm_medium=rss This cut is striking at the heart of community and disadvantaging the education of lower socio- economic students

]]> Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:22:48 UTC 10957200 mrs nicky melville [Signature #1208] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10957195?utm_medium=rss lLbraries are a VITAL part of the community, providing so many facilities for the public. it is one of those areas where it would be totally wrong to cut funding! Here, in Australia, we are trying to raise the level of literature and it is vital that children, particularly, to be weaned away from endless computer games and into the world of the written word. Our ageing population, with declining eye sight, need the talking CDs which are quite expensive and we need a good selection for them.

]]> Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:19:45 UTC 10957195 Heather Barker [Signature #1207] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10956883?utm_medium=rss Colac has and new and developing joint-use library that has immense and growing community support. The local council and the community has put a great deal of effort into a strong partnership with the Education Department and other state government bodies to establish and suport this library. This crucial facility needs continuing strong support from all partners.

]]> Fri, 5 Aug 2011 06:41:57 UTC 10956883 Mr Alistair Wylie [Signature #1206] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10956828?utm_medium=rss Fri, 5 Aug 2011 06:06:49 UTC 10956828 Mrs Kylie Barker [Signature #1205] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10956763?utm_medium=rss The library is a central part to every community. I bring my 2 children to Sunshine library at least twice a month and they love it. We need to nurture our children's love for books and reading. Cutting the funding seems to also send an opposing message to the Premier's Reading Challenge...

]]> Fri, 5 Aug 2011 05:41:12 UTC 10956763 rachael middleton [Signature #1204] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10954365?utm_medium=rss Fri, 5 Aug 2011 08:05:17 UTC 10954365 Dr. Valerie Tarrant [Signature #1203] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10954140?utm_medium=rss Local Libraries are vital for people of all ages, the independent thought basic to democracy. They must be properly financed

]]> Fri, 5 Aug 2011 07:03:53 UTC 10954140 Mr Anthony Tregenza [Signature #1202] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10953298?utm_medium=rss Fri, 5 Aug 2011 02:01:01 UTC 10953298