Letter Writing – Crisis in Afghanistan – Dec 2021
Please download our letter writing kit for December.
Included in this kit is the information you need to create your own letters or use the proformas (courtesy of https://www.ruralaustraliansforrefugees.org.au/rar-groups/online-group/)
- Guide and Background notes prepared by ARAN’s Letter Writing Network.
- 2 proforma letters that you can copy (and personalise) to send by post or email.
- Postal Addresses for MPs and Senators
- Email addresses for MPs and Senators
The topic is Australia’s poor response to the refugee crisis in Afghanistan. We are calling on the Morrison government to:
- increase Australia’s refugee intake from Afghanistan to at least 20,000, and
- grant permanent protection to refugees from Afghanistan.
Australia’s response has been nothing short of disgraceful. The humanitarian disaster occurring in Afghanistan is obvious, with widespread evidence of poverty, starvation and the ruthlessness of the Taliban regime. Australia promised 3000 places in our refugee intake for people from Afghanistan. Yet to date, not one of those permanent protection visas has been issued. People who arrived in Australia from the evacuation flights from Kabul in August have been given temporary (maximum 1 year) visas only. Other Afghan refugees who were already in Australia also remain on temporary protection visas. This is totally unacceptable. It is not at all reasonable to think that it will be safe for refugees to return to Afghanistan in the foreseeable future.
Please use the information and sample letter in the kit to write, at least to Prime Minister Morrison, and demand better.
Thank you for your continued support in the campaign for justice for refugees. Pleas share this widely.
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Letter Writing -PS In case you haven’t seen it, here’s a powerful editorial from last week’s Saturday Paper – worth a read.
