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You can email your local Member of Parliament about the campus closures and massive job cuts planned at Victoria University.
This is an important way to let your representative know that you want the State Government to take action to stop the closures and the staff cuts.
To email your local MP, simply fill out your name and email address in the form below. You can type in your own message, or cut and paste from the one provided. You also need to put in the email address of your MP (available as a download from the list, or online at the Victorian Parliament website).
Email a friend about Friends of VU.
You can use the sample message below by cutting and pasting.
Cut and paste, and change as you want
Dear [Name of MP],
I am writing as your constituent to express my concern about the proposed campus closures and mass-redundancies at Victoria University.
I am extremely concerned that these staff cuts – over 270 jobs representing around 25% of teaching staff – will seriously undermine Victoria University’s ability to ensure reasonable class sizes for students. It will dramatically increase workloads for remaining staff. The breadth of courses available to students will also decrease. The communities affected by the campus closures will also suffer, as amenity and learning opportunties dry up, and associated jobs are lost.
With higher education making up Victoria’s largest single export industry, and with skills and training essential to the future prosperity of the state, not to mention the rights and dignity of the staff whose jobs are under threat, I am calling on you, as my elected representative, to oppose the campus closures and job cuts. I further request that you express that opposition in Parliament and to the Victoria University Vice Chancellor.
Yours sincerely,
[Your Name]
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March 3rd, 2009 at 10:39 am
This action tool would be more effective if the system used the supporter’s postcode to generate MP’s email address automatically. Expecting people to search a document to find their local MP’s email address to take action is too much a barrier to the instant action you’re probably seeking.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:06 am
Hi Tron Lord,
Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately we don’t have the capability to do what you suggest, although we are looking into getting it in the future.
Cheers
Friends of VU Admin