This blog tells an amazing story. If you're an Australian, you might naively believe that you live in a country committed in its legal and political institutions to fairness and justice.





As you read on, you will have good reason to doubt all that.







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JULIAN BURNSIDE QC: 'I have carefully considered your situation... You have exhausted all possibilities of legal recourse... It is now important that your story be known by the public rather than buried... Be more assertive in pushing this issue in the media. Exposure of the Commonwealth's shabby behaviour might cause a change of heart.'







Please contact your local Federal member or senator urgently on behalf of Dawn: the more emails and letters sent to people in authority the more likely they will take notice! (See next paragraph for a couple of letters: you can use the raw material to construct your own. Note (January 2008) that they're dated in terms of the election: it's now important to contact the new Labor ministers. But they can still provide the raw material you can use).

Shalom!





Rowland

3. And from a S.A. woman-friend:



Dear Senator Minchin,



Please do what you can to ameliorate the dire situation in which Dawn Rowan finds herself in.



I am sure that you are aware that Dawn has saved many lives, come to the aid of women and children fleeing domestic violence and been the compassionate adviser of women whose lives have been blighted by violence and threats. She was warning people about the prevalence of child sex abuse long before that subject became speakable. Like many women in the van, she has been punished for her outspokenness. This is a terrible thing for young women of our age to understand, but it seems to be the truth still.

She is one of my heroes. In the 80s her work was an international influence for good and her work seminal in the progress towards understanding families under stress.



She has continued her work despite the misery her life became after the appeal against her successful defamation case.



This woman does not deserve to be pursued into bankruptcy.



Please give this sad case your attention.

http://dawnrowansaga.blogspot.com/

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