[ozmidwifery] Fw: Well done! 78,000 of us help prevent detention law
for those of you who care about keeping families safe andout ofdetention - Original Message - From: GetUp To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:42 PM Subject: Well done! 78,000 of us help prevent detention law Dear friends,Since last week, our GetUp petition to stop asylum seekers being detained offshore has surged from 33,000 to 78,000 signatures. To give you an idea, together we would now fill the Fritz Walter World Cup Stadium 1.6 times. Congratulations to GetUp members old and new who have once again worked together to make the people's voice heard inside Parliament. With your support behind them, courageous MPs and senators did not budge. The eleventh-hour attempt to pass new detention legislation, prior to the Prime Minister's visit to Indonesia, failed. Now we hold firm. In the next six weeks dissenting politicians will be under intense pressure to buckle and vote yes when Parliament reconvenes in August. We will therefore table this petition in Parliament again - with the full weight of each and every name added since - and continue our support for politicians from all parties who've expressed serious concerns about this law. If you haven't already signed, please click on the link below to help us reach our new, biggest ever target of 100,000! www.getup.org.au/campaign/NoChildInDetentionOnly two weeks ago, veteran political journalist Laurie Oaks said that anyone who argued against the proposed migration changes to the Senate Inquiry was "wasting their time". Now it's another story in the media. Instead of another rubber stamp for party politics, this is a fight for principle. Let's use the opportunity to grow this overwhelming message of public unity, and remind our elected representatives that we will continue to hold them accountable. To share the message with others, there's a note you can use below.Thank you for your tremendous efforts,The GetUp teamPS: There are a number of amendments currently on offer to push this law through when Parliament reconvenes; GetUp's blog outlines why they fail to address our concerns.Hi,I'm one of more than 78,000 Australians involved a national campaign to stop our migration laws from being changed for the worse - and we're succeeding. Last week, the Government planned to push legislation through Parliament to send all asylum seekers who arrive by boat, including children, into detention overseas. But with an incredible outpouring of public support, politicians from all the major parties opposed to this law chose to stand firm.Now we're aiming for target of 100,000 signatures, before Parliament resumes in six weeks and the Prime Minister tries to pass this law again. The stakes are high and dissenting MPs and senators are facing incredible pressure to buckle and vote yes. They've asked for our support to stay strong. Please join me in taking a stand, and sign the petition by clicking on the link below.www.getup.org.au/campaign/NoChildInDetentionMany thanks,---If you have trouble with any links in this email, please go directly to www.getup.org.au. GetUp is an independent, not-for-profit community campaigning group. We use new technology to empower Australians to have their say on important national issues.To unsubscribe from GetUp, please click here.
[ozmidwifery] Well done Andrea.
Andrea, you did us proud. Thank you. And thank you to all those who rang,e.mailed or wrote their letters of complaint yesterday. I think we all made a difference to the way in which this exhibition/birth was reported. If we hadn't complained there would never have been a mention that there IS another side to the cesarean experience. Andrea was up against time and negativity but did very, very well considering. Again, well done Andrea. Love, Sonia W. -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
Well Done
Well Done! Congrates on your hard work and dedication Justine and all that made it to the rally. Jo Bainbridgefounding member CARES SAemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]phone: 08 8365 7059birth with trust, faith love...
Well done
Alana and Joy you did a great job and as much as u had the oppurtunity spoke up for midwives and families thankyou from one midwife jan
This is very well done...
THE PRICE OF A CHILDI have seen repeatedly the breakdown of the cost of raising a child but this is the first time I have seen the rewards listed this way. It's nice, really nice!!The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition. For those with kids, that figure leads to wild fantasies about all the money we could have banked if not for (insert your child's name here). For others, that number might confirm the decision to remain childless. But $160,140 isn't so bad if you break it down. It translates into $8,896.66 a year, $741.38 a month, or $171.08 a week. That's a mere $24.44 a day! Just over a dollar an hour. Still, you might think the best financial advice says don't have children if you want to be "rich". It is just the opposite. What do your get for your $160,140? Naming rights. First, middle, and last! Glimpses of God every day. Giggles under the covers every night. More love than your heart can hold. Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs. Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies. A hand to hold, usually covered with jam. A partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites, building sandcastles, and skipping down the sidewalk in the pouring rain. Someone to laugh yourself silly with no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day. For $160,140, you never have to grow up. You get to finger-paint, carve pumpkins, play hide-and-seek, catch lightning bugs, and never stop believing in Santa Claus. You have an excuse to keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh, watching Saturday morning cartoons, going to Disney movies, and wishing on stars. You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under refrigerator magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, hand prints set in clay for Mother's Day, and cards with backward letters for Father's Day. For $160,140, there is no greater bang for your buck. You get to be a hero just for retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof, taking the training wheels off the bike, removing a splinter, filling the wading pool, coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs, and coaching a baseball team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless. You get a front row seat to history to witness the first step, first word, first bra, first date, and first time behind the wheel. You get to be immortal. You get another branch added to your family tree, and if you're lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren. You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice, communications, and human sexuality that no college can match. In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there with God, Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. You have all the power to heal a boo-boo, scare away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits, so one day they will, like you, love without counting the cost. ENJOY YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN!!!
