A JUST AUSTRALIA - URGENT CAMPAIGN ACTION

PARLIAMENT MUST ACT ON KIDS IN DETENTION

Please circulate widely!

More than a year after the last boat of asylum seekers hit our shores, 94 children are still in maximum security detention in Australia, over 200 more held on Manus Island and Nauru. This is the starkest indictment of our Government's asylum seeker policies.

We need your help and action to keep the pressure on the Government - to let them know this is not acceptable. And to pressure Parliament to take action - in the next sittings starting on 14 October.

You can help us do this in two very significant ways:

1. Write a Letter to your Local Federal Member of Parliament

Visit our website and follow the links to http://www.justrefugeeprograms.com.au/involve/GetInvolvedFrameset.htm Here you will find our special Letter Writing Facility that will help you easily write a letter to your local Federal MP - up-dated today to put pressure on the latest issue.

2. Donate to the Campaign

More lobbying, media and TV commercials are underway to build the campaign, all needing public support and donations. The various ways to donate to the campaign efforts are also to found at http://www.justrefugeeprograms.com.au/involve/GetInvolvedFrameset.htm - circulate this call widely.

"The Parliamentary debate on embryos and stem cell research showed the nation's concern about life, and the need for research to improve life. Yet the real human tragedy of what we are doing to living children is being ignored. Parliament must urgently discuss this matter and prohibit holding children in maximum security facilities, and to require unaccompanied children to be placed in foster or protective care." - Dr John Yu AC, Patron

Your involvement in our campaign is now critical!

Yours sincerely

HOWARD GLENN National Director A Just Australia 27 September 2002