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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#000000>Paul Keating had a great line: 'In any two horse race always back self-interest. At least you know it’s trying.' </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>The Good News is that we now have more than 2300 signatures on our petition to have community and health psychology endorsed as specialist areas of practice under the new national health practitioner registration scheme. <SPAN lang=EN-NZ style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><FONT face="Times New Roman">We can give you more details if you wish (see attached), but <SPAN style="COLOR: red; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">what would be helpful right now is a click on the link to the petition (if the link doesn’t work directly, best cut and paste it into your browser and proceed from there.)</SPAN><I><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></FONT></SPAN>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The site is: </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/endorse-community-psychology.html"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080>http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/endorse-community-psychology.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT face="Times New Roman">This is an online petition which is directed to Hon John Hill, MP, who is Chair of the Ministerial Council which determines endorsement for the specialities in psychology.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="COLOR: red"><FONT face="Times New Roman">We would greatly appreciate your using your networks to attract as many signatures as possible</FONT>. </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>By way of comparison, I'm embarrassed to say, there are only 915 signatures on the petition to restore the Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory, so can I encourage you to sign this one too, before it expires tomorrow (May 31st). It's always difficult to take a stand on an issue where there could be a range of views within Indigenous communities themselves, but the Indigenous psychologists I've spoken to are 100% in support of this position:</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><A href="http://stoptheintervention.org/rda-new-legislation/petition-RDA" target=_blank>http://stoptheintervention.org/rda-new-legislation/petition-RDA</A> </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Thanks!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Heather</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Heather Gridley</STRONG> <BR>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><FONT face=Arial size=2>Honorary Fellow<BR>School of Social Sciences and Psychology <BR>Victoria University <BR>PO Box 14428 <BR>Melbourne VIC 8001 <BR>Australia</FONT> </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>MOBILE: 0419 113 731 </DIV>
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<DIV></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Email: heather.gridley@vu.edu.au</DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV><p><span style=color:black;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",Arial,sans-serif><br>This email, including any attachment, is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. It is confidential and may contain personal information or be subject to legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient any use, disclosure, reproduction or storage of it is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please advise the sender via return email and delete it from your system immediately. Victoria University does not warrant that this email is free from viruses or defects and accepts no liability for any damage caused by such viruses or defects.</span></p></BODY></HTML>