Australian Labor party (ALP) won the recent NSW election with a plain majority. This news has been taken with great joy and happiness in the local Muslim communities of Riverstone and Marsden Park.
This is due to the fact that during the recent election campaign, various prominent figures of ALP NSW visited and met with the local Muslim population. Those figures included Mr Chris Minns, ALP NSW leader to become NSW premier, Prue Carr who will be deputy premier of NSW, Mr Stephen Kamper, who will be NSW minister for Multiculturalism, Mr Warren Kirby, the elected Labor member of NSW parliament from Riverstone constituency.
All of them had important conversations with various Muslim families and local Muslim leadership and ensured they worked together in future for the community’s good and fulfilling any of their needs.
On one similar occasion, Mr Stephen Kamper, ex-Shadow minister NSW for Multiculturalism, visited the Marsden Park Masjid on 14 March 2023 accompanied by Mr Warren Kirby and Ms Aisha Amjad, a local young and enthusiastic Labor leader.
They had a meeting with local IFAM (Islamic Forum for Australian Muslims) leadership in a bid to understand their works and projects for local Muslim communities and to develop a good relationship for serving them together in a better way.
From IFAM side Brother Wajahat Rana, Dr Kashif Aziz, Dr Ikram, Brother Ghufran, Brother Azhar Jamil, Brother Saqib Sarfraz, Brother Bilal Mustafa and Brother Usman participated in the meeting and told the guests about various projects that IFAM was undertaking locally to address various issues of important nature for the community.
IFAM members also told them about certain charitable activities like breakfast programs in some socially deprived areas of Sydney, the feed the hungry program to provide food for homeless people of Sydney and the Women’s Support Centre for helping women who face family crisis.
There were also various courses being arranged for women to upgrade their skills, given financial support and well-being programs for their good Mental health.
Mr Kamper and other visitors were impressed and delighted to know about IFAM as an Islamic volunteer organization working so actively in the community.
The ALP delegation was also told about Marsden Park Masjid and how it was serving the local Muslim population in a great way. There had been large gatherings of Muslims for Friday prayer and there had been two Friday prayers being arranged here due to the large number of Muslims living in the area now.
There were weekly classes, lectures and programs for adults, kids and women. Also, various community events like Ramadan Night prayers and Iftaar, Islamic festivals like Eid prayers and Eid celebrations were being arranged in Marsden Park Masjid.
Adults and Kids were regularly coming here for indoor and outdoor sports like table tennis, soccer and more.
Mr Stephen Kamper and those who accompanied him were very pleased and inspired by IFAM activities which were spread in many different parts of NSW and Australia.
He praised and thanked IFAM for working so earnestly for local families and vowed to help IFAM in its projects wherever possible.
For that reason, he pledged to give $150,000 to Marsden park Masjid towards
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