Email your MP to fight against injustice
Email your MP to fight against injustice
Aug 02, 2005: A new website has been launched to allow people to send emails to their local Member of Parliament about social issues they are not happy with, such as proposed changes to payments for people with disabilities and single parents.
Built in partnership with Webit Group, the new ACOSS website claims to be the first Australian-generated campaign site.
It features the Action Network, which allows people to enter their postcode and this autogenerates an email to their local Member of Parliament. ACOSS also said that this is the first online campaign in Australia that enables people to link with their local MPs too.
Several staff, who have worked on international online campaigns, such as the Live8 campaign, are helping with this campaign site.
ACOSS president, Andrew McCallum, believes that 300,000 Australians will be worse off if Parliament passes the Budget changes to welfare.
"This welfare legislation is grossly unfair - at least 150,000 people who apply for payments after July 2006 plus their 150,000 children will have less money to live on. If they apply after July next year, a single parent will be around $20 a week worse off. A person with a disability will have about $40 less per week.
"ACOSS, on its website, will assist all Australians to send a letter to their Member of Parliament calling them not make the incomes of the poorest Australians lower."
The letter is calling for politicians to argue against making more Australians live on less money and instead to invest in better help to transition jobless people back into the workforce.
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