KEEP WRITING LETTERS: IT'S WORKING!!!

Hi Everyone,

You may be aware that there has been such a stink kicked up in the Liberal party room that the debate and vote on the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Act has been delayed! I'm not exactly sure what the timeline is, but if the thing were going to pass without any fuss whatsoever, things would be looking quite different.

DO NOT GIVE UP! KEEP WRITING!!!

Here is an example of a letter I have written to about 30 politicians over the past couple of days. I will put another massive pile of addresses at the bottom of this email - USE THEM! We just have to convince Liberal Senators and Members to vote against it. It's such a massive issue of conscience that that shouldn't be hard!


Dear Elected Representative of the Australian Population:

I write to you as a final year Arts (Hons) / Law (Hons) student, a Christian, a recently returned intern with the Australian delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, and a weekly visitor to Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre for the past almost 4 years.

The migration law amendments being proposed this week are very worrying. They are a perversion of international law, of basic human right standards, a multi-faceted breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Refugees Convention. They are contrary to principles of burden sharing, humanitarianism and the rule of law. They are unbelievably EXPENSIVE! Imagine the benefits of reallocating the funding that these measures will consume. These laws are also a
direct break of the Government's promise to keep children out of detention.

In Australia, the only circumstance in which there is a recorded scourge of pre-adolescent suicidal ideation is in immigration
detention. Children as young as 5 have tried to end their lives by hanging themselves with bedsheets, belts and electrical cords. They have slashed their throats, wrists and chests with knives, razor blades and broken glass. THIS IS NOT A LEGITIMATE MEANS TO ANY POLICY OBJECTIVE. The trauma experienced by children in detention is not news to anybody, and I have attached a drawing done by a child after witnessing a self-harm incident. Imagine your horror if you saw such a picture come from your child or grandchild... We, as a nation, CANNOT have this blood on our hands.

Last year the government agreed no child should be in detention, let alone indefinitely, let alone on Nauru, let alone stripped of all recourse to the Australian legal system.

I beg you not to let this happen on YOUR watch. Today may be the day that I one day must explain to my grandchildren. We are facing the creation of tomorrow's shame and you are in the driver's seat, accountable before God and in the eyes of this country.

Yours sincerely,

Jessie Taylor




WRITE TO THESE PEOPLE:

senator.payne@aph.gov.au, Bruce.Baird.MP@aph.gov.au,
P.Georgiou.MP@aph.gov.au, J.Moylan.MP@aph.gov.au,
Russell.Broadbent.MP@aph.gov.au, Steven.Ciobo.MP@aph.gov.au,
P.Secker@aph.gov.au, j.forrest.mp@aph.gov.au, kay.hull.mp@aph.gov.au,
senator.joyce@aph.gov.au, Tony.Burke.MP@aph.gov.au,
Kim.Beazley.MP@aph.gov.au, "Bartlett, Andrew (Senator)"
, "Nettle, Kerry (Senator)"
, senator.allison@aph.gov.au,
senator.vanstone@aph.gov.au, P.Ruddock.MP@aph.gov.au,
Bronwyn.Bishop.MP@aph.gov.au, tony@tonyabbott.com.au,
B.Billson.MP@aph.gov.au, julie.bishop.mp@aph.gov.au,
Kevin.Rudd.MP@aph.gov.au, P.Costello.MP@aph.gov.au,
Ann.Corcoran.MP@aph.gov.au, Anna.Burke.MP@aph.gov.au,
Julia.Gillard.MP@aph.gov.au, Julia.Irwin.MP@aph.gov.au,
Dennis.Jensen.MP@aph.gov.au, Kevin.Andrews.MP@aph.gov.au,
Fran.Bailey.MP@aph.gov.au, Mark.Baker.MP@aph.gov.au,
Bob.Baldwin.MP@aph.gov.au, Phil.Barresi.MP@aph.gov.au,
Kerry.Bartlett.MP@aph.gov.au, Julie.Bishop.MP@aph.gov.au,
Mal.Brough.MP@aph.gov.au, A.Cadman.MP@aph.gov.au,
A.Downer.MP@aph.gov.au, T.Draper.MP@aph.gov.au,
Peter.Dutton.MP@aph.gov.au, K.Elson.MP@aph.gov.au,
Warren.Entsch.MP@aph.gov.au, Pat.Farmer.MP@aph.gov.au,
David.Fawcett.MP@aph.gov.au, Michael.Ferguson.MP@aph.gov.au,
T.Gambaro.MP@aph.gov.au, Joanna.Gash.MP@aph.gov.au,
Barry.Haase.MP@aph.gov.au, Gary.Hardgrave.MP@aph.gov.au,
David.Hawker.MP@aph.gov.au, Stuart.Henry.MP@aph.gov.au,
J.Hockey.MP@aph.gov.au, Greg.Hunt.MP@aph.gov.au,
Michael.Johnson.MP@aph.gov.au, David.Jull.MP@aph.gov.au,
Sophie.Panopoulos.MP@aph.gov.au, Peter.Slipper.MP@aph.gov.au,
S.Stone.MP@aph.gov.au, Malcolm.Turnbull.MP@aph.gov.au,
Danna.Vale.MP@aph.gov.au, Barry.Wakelin.MP@aph.gov.au,
Andrew.Robb.mp@aph.gov.au, senator.fielding@aph.gov.au