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<p><font color="#003366">Dear colleagues - please consider signing the open letter below if it accords with your understanding of asylum-seeker policy. It will go to the Expert Panel which is taking submissions until next Thursday,</font>
<font color="#ff0000">but this one (primarily from academics) needs to be signed by 5pm WA timTODAy, ie 7pm EST.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> Anne Pedersen
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 9 July 2012 12:32 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Anne Pedersen<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Open letter from academics regarding asylum seekers and refugees</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt; color:black; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">We are refugee advocates and academics working in the field of asylum seekers. We are becoming increasingly alarmed about the politics which are playing out
about asylum seekers. As you may know, there is an Expert Panel led by Angus Houston that the government has tasked with providing a report about the best way forward in dealing with asylum seeker issues; public submissions are being called for. There are
also a number of concerned MPs who are meeting over the winter parliamentary recess to discuss this issue.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt; color:black; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">We would like to contribute to these deliberations and, to this end, we have put together an open letter outlining our concerns about issues such as turning
back the boats, Nauru, the Malaysian Solution and temporary protection visas. We have also included recommendations that are focused on the needs of asylum seekers. As well as giving to the letter to the Expert Panel, we will also send it to some politicians.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12pt; color:black; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">If you agree with the content of the letter, and would like to put your name to it as an academic working in this field, please do so. You can do this by going
to the web link: </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'"><a href="http://scored.murdoch.edu.au:8008/survey/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=8232982" target="_blank">http://scored.murdoch.edu.au:8008/survey/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=8232982</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt; color:black; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">Could you please note your professional title, name and affiliation? For example</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt; color:black; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">Associate Professor Anne Pedersen, Murdoch University.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt; color:black; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'"> We don’t have much time so we will shut down this web site at 5pm, Perth time, on Thursday, 12<sup>th</sup> July.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt; color:black; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">We would also be very grateful if you could forward the link to any other academics working in the asylum-seeker field who may be interested.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt; color:black; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">Thanks very much</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt; color:black; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">Anne Pedersen and Caroline Fleay</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">A/Professor Anne Pedersen</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">School of Psychology</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">Murdoch University</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">Perth, Western Australia 6150</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">Tel 61 (08) 9360 6488</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">Fax 61 (08) 9360 6492</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.psychology.murdoch.edu.au/staff/pedersen.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'">http://www.psychology.murdoch.edu.au/staff/pedersen.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'"></span></p>
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