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<font size="3" face="Calibri">Dear colleagues</font></div>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri">As those of you who are APS members would be aware,<span style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(234, 234, 234)"> it's APS election time again, and a number of you have asked me for my views - this year we have:</span></font><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(234, 234, 234)"> </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><font size="3" face="Calibri">3 candidates for president-elect - Tim Carey, Michael Burge and Tamara Cavenett</font></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">2 candidates for one other Board position, which is to represent members primarily engaged in research and/or teaching, so pretty it's much only academics who can vote for that one - either Simon Crowe
or Dixie Statham. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 14pt 0px"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><font color="#414141"><font>You can find vote electronically by
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following the e-trail</span> </font></font><font color="#414141">at: </font><a href="http://www.psychology.org.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px">http://www.psy</a></font><a href="http://www.psychology.org.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">chology.org.au/</a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span><font size="3" face="Calibri" style="color: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The
APS system is optional preferential, so you only need to number the squares of your preferred candidate(s), and not the whole list. </font><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">And if you don't think you know the APS candidates well enough
to make an informed choice, read their statements and videotaped answers to member questions online.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Now that I'm not working in the APS National Office, I can say a bit more about the candidates - what could possibly go wrong?!
However I </b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b><i>really</i></b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b> can't decide who to vote for in a very unimpressive
field of candidates for President-elect. SO...</b></span></font></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">if your primary concern is the anomalies in the two-tier system of Medicare rebates under Better Access, you should probably vote for Michael Burge, a counselling psychologist who
has stood on that issue in the past. But I can't recall any particular contribution that he made in his previous time on the Board</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(234, 234, 234); display: inline !important; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">if your primary concern is</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(234, 234, 234); display: inline !important"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> on
social justice and seeing psychologists pay more attention to</span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; background-color: rgb(242, 243, 245); display: inline !important;"> the social determinants
of health in research and practice, Tim Carey could be the one you'd vote for - he was the initiator of the APS Apology to Indigenous Australians when he was on the Board in 2016.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; background-color: rgb(242, 243, 245); display: inline !important;">
But it is difficult for me to support Tim because I believe he let us all down as a member of the Board that in the past two years that has overseen the gutting of the National Office, including the departure of at least 70 staff (and counting) and the dismantling
of the Public Interest team that I led <span id="😢">😢</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(242, 243, 245); display: inline !important;">.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(234, 234, 234); display: inline !important"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(242, 243, 245); display: inline !important;">if
like me you don't think it reflects well on the diversity of the Society to have the immediate past Chair of one College become the next President almost as of right, you wouldn't be voting for Tamara Cavenett, who as current Chair of the Clinical College
would be the 4th successive President to have taken that path.</span></span></span></li></ul>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><font size="2">Of the two DPRET candidates, I will certainly be voting for Simon Crowe. I don't know the other candidate, but it is clear that her APS involvement has mostly been via the Clinical College, and I strongly believe that
the DPRET position on the Board should be taken by someone whose primary focus is research and teaching ahead of professional training and practice, which are well covered by the Division of Colleges and Division of General Psychological Practice. </font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><font size="2">Finally, it's important to note that the AGM next Saturday is in Perth, so if you want to vote on any motions, you will need to give your proxy to a WA person by Thursday morning latest or book your flight now.
<span style="color: rgb(200, 38, 19);"><i>(Shout-out to any WA comm psychs who might be getting along to the AGM next Saturday morning... let's know so I can nominate you as my proxy...)</i></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><font size="2">Feel free to ask me privately for more info on any of the above.</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><font size="2">Best regards</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><font size="2">(Apologies for any cross-postings)</font></div>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Verdana"><strong>Heather Gridley</strong></font></p>
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