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What to do in the Next Four Weeks

Hello all,

I've been through the 40+ pages of comments on the previous discussion, THE ROAD AHEAD - The Post-Convoy Plan, and picked out the best ideas. I then sent a summary out for discussion by some of our most senior members.

Below is what we can focus on over the coming month.

Please do remember that, while the Convoy was an amazing initiative in which Just Grounds was heavily involved, we ARE a multi-faceted community and there is no obligation for all members to undertake the following actions.

However, for those who are keen, read on.

1. Signatures on the Convoy Petition

I know many people are still working on this - thank you so much!

If you do have filled pages, can you please post them on to the PO Box, so that we can get an updated number?

Some ideas for obtaining signatures:

* Take the petition with you to social functions/events in your local area

* Post the link on Facebook pages

* Include the link if you comment on newspaper articles

There was an idea from new member, Paul Starr, about running the trucks with their banners into towns at pre-arranged times to collect signatures. I believe the NRFA are not making any formal plans, however, this idea could be taken up by individual vehicle owners?

I will also link Tony Abbott's petition on the main page underneath the Convoy Petition.

2. Contacting Politicians:

With the "carbon tax" bills to be debated next week, NOW is definitely the time to be in touch with politicians.

I will draw your attention to a link provided by Jan Courtney in regard to the most effective way of communicating with politicians. Ideally, you would raise the issue with your MP by a face-to-face meeting or phone call.

However, in this instance, you may wish to focus on the Independents or the most marginal labor MP's.

At the minimum, send a personally written email. If you have time, post a hard-copy letter. Again, there are excellent tips on how to write an effective letter or email on Jan's link above.

Here is a list of the 15 most marginal seats (thanks, again, Jan). I will also attach new member, Peter Heuscher's, list of email addresses.

Corangamite (Vic) Darren Cheeseman ALP

Greenway (NSW) Michelle Rowland ALP 50.88
La Trobe (Vic) Laura Smyth ALP 50.91
Robertson (NSW) Deborah O’Neill ALP 51.00
Lindsay (NSW) David Bradbury ALP 51.12
Moreton (Qld) Graham Perrett ALP 51.13
Banks (NSW) Daryl Melham ALP 51.45
Deakin (Vic) Mike Symon ALP 52.41
Petrie (Qld) Yvette D’Ath ALP 52.51
Reid (NSW) John Murphy ALP 52.68
Lilley (Qld) Wayne Swan ALP 53.18
Brand (WA) Gary Gray ALP 53.33
Capricornia (Qld) Kirsten Livermore ALP 53.68
Lingiari (NT) Warren Snowdon ALP 53.70
Page (NSW) Janelle Saffin ALP 54.19

3. Protest Rallies:

My understanding is that the NRFA will not be organising further protest events; however, there are events being organised by other organisations:

a. Today, in Coburg, a rally outside Kelvin "Convoy of Incontinence" Thompson's office - see here for details.

b. On Sept 18, in Perth on the foreshore, an Election Now rally - see here for details.

c. On Sept 30, in Melbourne, a rally outside the BOM office - see here for details.

(Please let us know if you are aware of any others.)

Thanks,

Julene Haack

Tags: Convoy

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Permalink Reply by Ebony Jackson on September 9, 2011 at 2:09pm

You have been doing some very heavy reading Julene.

Thank you for all that you do here on JG.

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Permalink Reply by Julene Haack on September 15, 2011 at 12:18pm

Something to get you motivated with the Convoy Petition???

I did a bit of research and found these statistics HERE:

Since 1988, when the numbers of signatures were first recorded, the petition with the greatest number of signatures was presented on 4 December 2000 concerning taxation and beer prices, with 792,985 signatures.

In 1993 a petition concerning health care funding signed by more than 500,000 people was presented.

Here are the biggest petitions (>10,000 signatures) received by the 42nd Gov (Feb 2008 - July 2010):

Live animal export from Australia to the Middle East (PDF 61KB)

8 February 2010

36,068

Response from Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, dat...

End the export of live animals (PDF 45KB)

21 June 2010

12,971

Response from Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, dated 19 October 2010 (PDF 170KB)

Public hearing program, 28 April 2010 (PDF 37KB)

Public hearing transcript, 28 April 2010 (PDF 303KB)

Nomination of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste as a recipient...

Mr Bradbury, 16 September 2009

15 March 2010

22,717

846

Response from Special Minister of State, dated 1 December 2009 (PDF...

Public hearing program, 7 April 2010 (PDF 37KB)

Public hearing transcript, 7 April 2010 (PDF 441KB)

Including modern Greek language in the National Schools Curriculum ...

Ms Vamvakinou, 21 June 2010
Ms Vamvakinou, 24 June 2010

19,067
3,338

University funding (PDF 49KB)

Ms Livermore, 25 May 2009

17,354

Response from Minister for Education, dated 13 July 2009
(PDF 296KB)

Public hearing program, 28 April 2010 (PDF 37KB)
Public hearing transcript, 28 April 2010 (PDF 302 KB)

Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act 2005 (PDF 54KB)

23 February 2009

17,620

Public hearing program, 23 March 2009 (PDF 37KB)

Public hearing transcript, 23 March 2009 (PDF 272KB)

Response from Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, dated
11 June 2009 (PDF 132KB)

Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act 2005 (PDF 60KB)

23 February 2009

17,023

Public hearing program, 23 March 2009 (PDF 37KB)

Public hearing transcript, 23 March 2009 (PDF 272KB)

Response from Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, dated
11 June 2009 (PDF 132KB)

Aged care for the Chinese-speaking community (PDF 87KB)

8 February 2010

12,430

Response from Minister for Ageing, dated 6 May 2010
(PDF 240KB)

Establishment of a radiotherapy unit on the Central Coast (PDF 33KB)

Ms Neal,10 February 2009

16 March 2009

17,367

597

Public hearing program, 23 March 2009 (PDF 37KB)
Public hearing transcript, 23 March 2009 (PDF 272KB)

Response from Minister for Health and Ageing, dated
4 June 2009 (PDF 138KB)

Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (PDF 56KB)

Mr Fletcher, 24 June 2010

13,597

Medicare branch, Belmont, WA, Swan electorate (PDF 25KB)

23 June 2008

11,994

Response from Minister for Human Services, dated
10 September 2008 (PDF 111KB)

Public hearing program, 22 October 2008 (PDF 380KB)

Public hearing transcript, 22 October 2008 (PDF 190KB)

Medicare branch, Mirrabooka, WA (PDF 45KB)

23 February 2009

11,449

Response from Minister for Human Services, dated 12 August 2009 (PD...

Public hearing program, 28 October 2009 (PDF 49KB)

Public hearing transcript, 28 October 2009 (PDF 195KB)

Toowoomba Bypass (PDF 63KB)

Mr Macfarlane, 18 March 2009
25 May 2009

26,602
1,771

Public hearing program, 27 May 2009 (PDF 107KB)
Public hearing transcript, 27 May 2009 (PDF 167KB)

Public hearing program, 8 April 2010 (PDF 37KB)

Public hearing transcript, 8 April 2010 (PDF 297KB)

Here are the biggest petitions (>10,000 signatures) from the 43rd Gov: (Sept 2010 - ):

End live animal export to the Middle East (PDF 70KB)

Ms. M Parke MP, 2 June 2011
22 August 2011

40,650
30,791

Response from Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, dated 19 October 2010 (PDF 170KB)
(Response to same petition presented in 42nd Parliament)

Child sex trafficking (PDF 58KB)

Mr A Bandt, 23 March 2011

225,328

Response from Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated 16 May 2011 (PDF 193)
Response from Minister for Justice, dated 25 May 2011 (PDF 207KB)

Paid Parental Leave (PDF 119KB)

15 November 2010

25,423

Response from Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services an...

Review of Islamic apostasy laws (PDF 98KB)

21 February 2011

14,694

Response from Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated 19 April 2011 (PD...

The right to choose and have direct access to family GP's (PDF 8KB)

23 May 2011

10,908

Response from Minister for Health and Ageing, dated 15 July 2011 (P...

Opposing plans for plain packaging of cigarettes (PDF 48KB)	4 July 2011 22 August 2011	35,001 1,502
Opposition to any reduction in funding for medical research (PDF 73KB)	Mr. A. Bandt MP, 6 July 2011	13,828

Request that the Turkish language is included in the new national c...

4 July 2011

10,148

Protection of the Pumicestone Passage (PDF 65KB)

The Hon. Mr. P Slipper, 24 March 2011

13,555

Response from Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Popu...

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Permalink Reply by Julene Haack on September 15, 2011 at 12:58pm

In other words, 225,000 is the number (in recent times) to beat!!

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Permalink Reply by Michael Petterson on September 15, 2011 at 12:58pm

Here's something for you to read. I've taken the libetrty of using the MP's list to e-mail them about it.

A hoax is a deceptive act intended to hoodwink people through deliberate misinformation, including factual omissions. My book is about the latter. (And by the way, it can be ordered through primary vendors, and is currently being featured on "new releases" tables at 200 major Barnes and Noble stores.)

The central lie is that we are experiencing a known human-caused climate crisis, a claim based on speculative theories, contrived data and totally unproven modeling predictions. And the evidence? Much is revealed by politically corrupted processes and agenda-driven report conclusions rendered by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which are trumpeted in the media as authoritative gospel

http://www.forbes.com/2011/01/03/climate-change-hoax-opinions-contr...

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Permalink Reply by Michael Petterson on September 15, 2011 at 1:02pm

I also recieved the e-mail from Julie Owens. if someone could get onto replying to her quickly about it.

Dear Tom,

I think there are some inaccuracies in article in the first link. I looked up the original article http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v476/n7361/full/nature10343.html and Professor Jyrki Kauppinen who is named as an author in the Chriss Street article you forwarded, is not listed as an author of the journal article. Have I missed something? I am aware that the actual lead author Kirkby has been widely quoted as saying that you cannot extrapolate their findings to make any conclusions about climate change and he has explained why several times.

Julie Owens

Federal Member for Parramatta

1/25 Smith Street, Parramatta (enter off Macquarie St)

Ph 02 9689 1455

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Permalink Reply by Michael Petterson on September 15, 2011 at 2:04pm

Thanks for the pic peter. Unforuntely I'd already sent the e-mail by then and I think spamming them with the same thing would be counter-productive to the extreme,if you get what I mean.

Peter Heuscher said:

Michael, a picture says more than a thousand words.

If you didn't send the email yet - you still can add this picture (for more attention). Cheers.

Michael Petterson said:

Here's something for you to read. I've taken the libetrty of using the MP's list to e-mail them about it.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon Smith on September 15, 2011 at 8:27pm

Hi Peter, I feel that I am banging my head against a dunny door trying to communicate with my MP,He is so arrogant and knows everything, he refuses to listen to any critics of his utopian Govt. Unfortunately he is in a relatively safe seat (Hunter NSW). I will continue to annoy him but I do not expect any success. I will be one of the 1st to congratulate him when he is either voted out or voted into opposition.

Regards Gordon

Peter Heuscher said:

Hi Julene,

Is there a possibility to "shift" this discussion a little bit higher in the hierarchy of discussions?

So it can be seen by more people at once.

You wrote:

"With the "carbon tax" bills to be debated next week, NOW is definitely the time to be in touch with politicians."

I couldn't more agree with that - but as far I can see there are no more than about 30 active members and there is a vast number of JG members (over 3000) "dormant".

How can we activate them also to make some letters to their MPs (or at least emails)?

I can see that emails to the Representative of our own electorate are the most efficient and meaningful once - that means we should motivate all members with ALP representatives to do something in that direction.

The discussion just started by Owen Carlton (We want an election ---now)
http://justgroundsonline.com/forum/topics/we-want-an-election-now goes in the same direction.

Fortunately my MP is Warren Truss NP) and I have him contacted already several

times in the past and I contacted all MPs already several times over the last 2 or 3 weeks with different emails and different approaches to make them aware that their interest should lie with their constituents and not with their party.

So please if your MP is a member of ALP - send him/her an email and your opinion clear about the carbon tax and ETS.

Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Petterson on September 15, 2011 at 8:58pm

Sounds like your MP is about as mine as mine,expect mine is sitting in a marginal seat the seat of PAGE in northern NSW,and still refuses to actually listen(to my experience) that thecarbon tax or any issues have anything wrong with them. I fail to see just how to get through to these people.

Gordon Smith said:

Hi Peter, I feel that I am banging my head against a dunny door trying to communicate with my MP,He is so arrogant and knows everything, he refuses to listen to any critics of his utopian Govt. Unfortunately he is in a relatively safe seat (Hunter NSW). I will continue to annoy him but I do not expect any success. I will be one of the 1st to congratulate him when he is either voted out or voted into opposition.

Regards Gordon

Peter Heuscher said:

Hi Julene,

Is there a possibility to "shift" this discussion a little bit higher in the hierarchy of discussions?

So it can be seen by more people at once.

You wrote:

"With the "carbon tax" bills to be debated next week, NOW is definitely the time to be in touch with politicians."

I couldn't more agree with that - but as far I can see there are no more than about 30 active members and there is a vast number of JG members (over 3000) "dormant".

How can we activate them also to make some letters to their MPs (or at least emails)?

I can see that emails to the Representative of our own electorate are the most efficient and meaningful once - that means we should motivate all members with ALP representatives to do something in that direction.

The discussion just started by Owen Carlton (We want an election ---now)
http://justgroundsonline.com/forum/topics/we-want-an-election-now goes in the same direction.

Fortunately my MP is Warren Truss NP) and I have him contacted already several

times in the past and I contacted all MPs already several times over the last 2 or 3 weeks with different emails and different approaches to make them aware that their interest should lie with their constituents and not with their party.

So please if your MP is a member of ALP - send him/her an email and your opinion clear about the carbon tax and ETS.

Thanks.