A LABOR backbencher will not take part on the Federal Election day because it falls on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

Victorian Michael Danby said Labor had to make special voting arrangements for the nation's 107,000-strong Jewish community or lose support from voters.

The September 14 election falls on Yom Kippur and critics have lined up to take issue with Julia Gillard's timing.

and what are Jewish leaders saying az?

Probably get over it 😄

Who cares who wins, they all lie and decieve us anyway.

System is a joke, no need for so many people in different levels of Gov to run the country.

Look at how big the Roman empire was and how many people used to control it!

Yeah, they lied, killed and murdered people and were corrupt, what has changed?

Yom Kippur:

2011:   October 7-8

2012:   September 25-26

2013:   September 13-14

2014:   October 3-4

2015:   September 22-23

It varies every year, I thought Amy Winehouse 30th birthday is just as important,

That is quite insensitive? It is the most important day of the year to the Jewish people. Would you feel the same if it was Christmas Day?

ok - re the Jewish vote :

Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the Jewish year. We go by the Jewish calendar, which has completely different months and timing etc to the Gregorian calendar.

Yom Kippur happens EVERY year on the 10th day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei.

Therefore, the Gregorian date will vary every year, just as someone posted above.

Elections in Australia always take place on a Saturday. This is our Sabbath. So, every time there is an election at any government level, we are unable to vote on the exact date. The fact that it is Yom Kippur makes no difference at all. Any religious Jew, who is concerned / unable to vote on a Saturday, votes either at pre-poll, when its available, or we postal vote. This election will be no different.

In regard to the actual politicians, some do not observe the Sabbath every week, but as Yom Kippur is the holiest day, they will. And yes, this could disrupt their campaign on the day.

From the AEC website ''Ordinary vote

An ordinary vote is a vote cast by an elector at a polling place on election day or at an early voting centre within the division for which they are on the electoral roll. This is the simplest way to vote and the method used by the majority of electors.'

 a lot of people vote before the day. simple.

Actually there are a few ways to vote before the day AEC http://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/ways_to_vote/

That is quite insensitive? It is the most important day of the year to the Jewish people. Would you feel the same if it was Christmas Day?

What is insensitive? We bought our home from Jewish people who happened to manipulate the settlement date because it fell on Yom Kippur,

I don't buy it one bit, you can't please everyone all the time.

comparing it with Amy whoever's birthday....