Ask and you shall receive ... those I have begged for assistance ...

Australians I have begged to provide assistance, support, advocacy, care and compassion for Australian children and women trapped overseas by domestic violence and systemic and judicial failures …

Compiled December 2008,
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Those I have begged for assistance include, but are not limited to, the following mentioned individuals and organisations - see also www.womenwhowant2gohome.blogspot.com letters and posts such as “The Perils of Indifference …”, “Further out of view ... further out of mind…”)

As I had tried my best to be as strategic as possible on our behalf this list includes those who:
- are considered “domestic violence experts” and advocates
- are offered and accept positions and opportunities of power, privilege and influence in the domestic violence sector/industry
- in their political/public life have made pubic statements condemning violence against children and women
- publicly advocated for and supported David Hicks (who left his partner, daughter and son to go and support the Taliban, an organisation that believes in denying women and girls their human rights) and demanded government intervention and advocacy to defend Mr Hicks human rights and insist Mr Hicks receive “judicial fairness” and be safely and immediately returned to Australia
- are considered human rights experts and advocates
- are considered defenders of social justice, responsible and ethical governance
- have used their media role/relationships to speak up about justice, human rights, violence against children and women and women’s issues

Information regarding my communication/contact, by phone, fax, email or mail, with these individuals and organisations can be found in my journal/diary, daily planner, note books where I kept mail details, Post Office receipts and express post tracing numbers, contact management file, mobile phone records, email account, copies of letters, emails, faxes and responses.
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Dr Meredith Burgmann- former NSW Legislative Council President, self professed “political agitator and international busybody”, “The Ernies” organiser, contributor to “Ethics and political practice: perspectives on legislative ethics” edited by Noel Preston ad Charles Sampford with C-A Bois, Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy series, The Federation Press, 1998

Dr Leslie Cannold – Moral Maze, Sun-Herald, ethics website

Eva Cox – Women’s Electoral Lobby, University of Technology, Sydney

Susan Mitchell – journalist, author, “The Scent of Power: on the trail of women and power in Australia” Angus & Robertson, 1996

Anne Summers – Women’s Adviser to Prime Minister Bob Hawke, journalist, author, “Damned Whores and God’s Police”
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Dr Lesley Laing – Senior Lecturer in Social Work, The University of Sydney, formerly Director of the Education Centre Against Violence, established Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse, recently appointed Deputy Chair, The Premier’s Council for Preventing Violence Against Women (I had also applied for a position on this council but was rejected), co-organiser/co-host “Towards Better Practice: Enhancing collaboration between mental health services and women’s domestic violence services” where the known suicide of women and children after leaving situations of domestic violence where these children and women had not been assisted or protected and had then also experienced systemic and judicial abuse was discussed.

Associate Professor Jude Irwin – Social Work, The University of Sydney, co-organiser/co-host “Towards Better Practice: Enhancing collaboration between mental health services and women’s domestic violence services” where the known suicide of women and children after leaving situations of domestic violence where these children and women had not been assisted or protected and had then also experienced systemic and judicial abuse was discussed.

Prof Cathy Humphreys, Andrew Felton Chair Child and Family Welfare, University of Melbourne, guest speaker “Towards Better Practice: Enhancing collaboration between mental health services and women’s domestic violence services” where the known suicide of women and children after leaving situations of domestic violence where these children and women had not been assisted or protected and had then also experienced systemic and judicial abuse was discussed and at which event Prof Humphreys informed me “female politicians will not speak up about these issues for fear of backlash” and “the government won’t do anything unless the media embarrasses them into it”. In a later correspondence Prof Humphreys informed me “The story you tell is not unfamiliar” and went on to say she would use the information I mailed her begging for her assistance (marked confidential) for “teaching purposes” but once again would not provide us with any assistance, support, suggestions or advocacy.

Thea Brown – Monash University, “Child Abuse and Family Law”, Allen & Unwin, 2007

Prof Dorothy Scott – Director, Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia

Dr Eileen Pittaway, University of New South Wales

Prof Chris Goddard – National Research Centre for the Prevention of Child Abuse, Monash University

Prof Paul Wilson – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bond University

Patricia Easteal – Adjunct Professor in Law, University of Canberra, author “Real Rape, Real Pain: Help for women sexually assaulted by male partners”, “Less than Equal: Women and the Australian Legal System”, “Balancing the Scales: Rape, Law Reform and Australian Culture”, “Shattered Dreams, Marital Violence Against Women: The Overseas-born in Australia”

Regina Graycar, Professor of Law, University of Sydney

Prof Freda Briggs, Division of Education, Arts and Social Services, University of South Australia

Dr Meg Smith – Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney

Dr Sarah Maddison, Senior Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of New South Wales, (see also online Leadership for Women www.leadershipforwomen.com.au )

Dr Ilsa Evans – PhD on the long tern effects of domestic violence, author “Broken”

Marie Hume – NAFCC National and International coalition of organisations formed to advocate on behalf of women and children in Family Court system with concerns about domestic violence and child abuse

Prof Elspeth McInnes – domestic violence advocate, researcher

Mary Crawford- Queensland University of Technology, research “Gender and the Australian Parliament”

Prof Linda Briskman – former head Australian Council of Heads of School of Social Work, human rights advocate

Prof Michael Flood – White Ribbon Ambassador

Prof Richard Henry & Prof Les Field – University of New South Wales, Ethics Committee

Justice James Wood, Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection in New South Wales

Prof John Dewar- Griffith University, wrote letter on behalf of Family Law Council concerned changes to Family Law Act did not protect children and women who had experienced domestic violence

Prof Margaret Alston, Charles Sturt University, 2008 Australian Government delegate to the United Nations 52nd Convention on the Status of Women
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Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse - Rochelle Braaf, Gaby Marcus, Claire Sneddon

UNIFEM

WESNET (Women’s Emergency Services Network)

South Brisbane Immigration Legal Services

White Ribbon Campaign – Warren Mundine, Andrew O’Keefe, Dr Tanveer Ahmed

National Council for the Reduction of Violence Against Women and Children
- Heather Nancarrow, Queensland Centre Domestic & Family Violence, Central Queensland University
- Rachel Kayrooz, Shout Speak Out! Brisbane
- Lisa Wilkinson, TODAY Show
- Andrew O’Keefe, White Ribbon Campaign & SUNRISE Show
- Vanessa Swan, Yarrow Place Rape & Sexual Assault Centre, Adelaide SA
- Dr Melanie Keenan, Australian Football League, Melbourne
- Dorinda Cox, Aboriginal Liaison Officer, Sexual Assault Resource Centre, Subiaco, WA
- Maria Dimopoulos, MyriaD Consultants
- Libby Lloyd OAM, former president UNIFEM, Board Member White Ribbon Campaign
- Associate Professor Moira Carmody, member of the Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre University of Western Sydney, foundation member NSW Premier’s Council for Women
- Pauline Woodbridge, Chair WESNET (Women’s Emergency Services Network)

Y.W.C.A

Betty Green – NSW Domestic Violence Committee Coalition, NSW Premier’s Council on Preventing Violence Against Women, NSW Domestic Violence Homicide Review Team

CHILDWISE

Women’s Refuge Movement Resource Centre, Sydney

(Home community) Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Services

(Home community) Women’s Refuge

International Social Work Society

Australians attending world conferences on Child Witnesses to Domestic Violence, London, Ontario, Canada, 1997 and Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, 1999

Australians attending World Conference on the Prevention of Family Violence, Banff, Alberta Canada, 2005

Amnesty International

Liberty Victoria

Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne

Children’s Rights International, Sydney

GetUp - assisted David Hicks

Marie Coleman – National Foundation for Australian Women

Deborah Robinson – Australian Women Online

Transparency International

Andrew Fels - Australia and New Zealand Centre for Governance

(Home community) Women’s Health Centre

(Home community) social worker

(Home community) Mental Health Services

Jacqueline Pascal,

Donna Carson - Australian of the Year, Local Hero 2004, author “Judas Kisses: A true story of love and betrayal” Hardie Grant Books, 2007, (via VOCAL)

Dr Anthony Kidman – Director Health Psychology Unit, Royal North Shore Hospital

Ms Nicole Kidman – UNIFEM Ambassador, via Dr Anthony Kidman

Ms Therese Rein – Prime Minister’s wife, via Dr Anthony Kidman

Ms Hetty Johnston - Braveheart

Rachel Ball – Human Rights Law Resource Centre

Council for Civil Liberties

Michelle Penay – PILCH, Melbourne

Australian Social Inclusion Board
- Hon Prof Tony Vinson, Faculty Education & Social Work, The University of Sydney
- Patricia Faulkner, National Leader, Health & Social Policy, KPMG
- Monsignor David Cappo, Vicar-General Archdiocese of Adelaide
- Ms Elleni Bereded-Samuel, Community engagement Coordinator, Victoria University
- Dr Ngiare Brown, Telethon Institute for Child health research
- Dr Ron Edwards, Graham farmer Foundation, WA
- Mr Eddie McGuire, Channel Nine
- Dr John Falzon, COE St Vincent de Paul Society
- Mr Ahmed Fahour, National Australia Bank
- Ms Linda White, Australian Services Union
- Mr Tony Nicholson, Brotherhood of St Lawrence
- Dr Chris Sarra, Indigenous Education Leadership Institute
- Prof Fiona Stanley, Telethon Institute of Child Health Research

Dr Marie Leech, Australia 2020 Summit delegate
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Janet Loughman – Women’s Legal Services NSW

Bill Madden, Slater & Gordon Lawyers, Sydney – assisted Melissa Hawarth

Stephen Page – Harrison Family Lawyers, Brisbane, author “The Australian Divorce” blog

David McLeod, Adelaide- David Hicks Lawyer

Prof George Williams – Gilbert+ Tobin Centre of Public Law, University New South Wales, advocated for David Hicks

Daniel Gilbert, Gilbert + Tobin Law Firm

Julian Burnside QC, - human rights advocate, “Watching Brief: Reflections on human rights, law and justice” Scribe, 2007, advocated for David Hicks

Australian Lawyers for Human Rights

Ross Ray- Law Council of Australia

Greg Reinhardt – Australian Institute for Judicial Administration Inc

Margaret Cunneen- - crown prosecutor

Sally Nichols, Nichols Family Lawyers, Melbourne - assisted Jacqueline Pascarl

Dr Ben Saul – Sydney Centre for International Law, The University of Sydney

University of Newcastle Legal Centre – Prof Neil Rees, Stuart McCarthy, assisted Cornelia Rau

Dr Sue Gordon -former Children’s Court Magistrate, Perth WA

Clare Martin, Australian Council Social Services
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Margaret Somerville – Australian ethicist, author “The Ethical Imagination: journeys of the human spirit” Anansi Press, 2006

Dr Simon Longstaff – St James Ethics Centre

Prof A J Brown – Griffith University, ethicist, editor “Whistleblowing in the Australian Public Sector” ANU E Press, 2008

Dr Paul Mazerolle – Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University, contributed to “Whistleblowing in the Australian Public Sector” hosted recent symposium “Understanding and Preventing Domestic Violence: A One Day Symposium”

Prof Mirko Bagaric – legal expert, “The Moral Dilemma” online site, publicly advocated for David Hicks, Bali Nine, assisted Tony Mokbel, author “Future Directions in Human Rights and International Law”
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Janelle Saffin MP

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young

Dr Carmen Lawrence, former WA Premier, Senator, Cabinet Minister, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women

Verity Firth MP - NSW Minister for Women, Chair NSW Premier’s Council on Preventing of Violence Against Women, lawyer, served on Law and Justice Foundation board

Senator Marise Payne,

Jillian Skinner MP, NSW Opposition deputy, former journalist

Malcolm Turnbull, Federal Opposition Leader, lawyer

Bob Brown, Leader Greens

Christine Milne, Greens Senator

Tanya Plibersek MP - Minister for the Status Women, former Shadow Minister for the Status Women, when in Opposition spoke publicly demanding for government assistance and intervention for ‘judicial fairness” and an immediate return to Australia for David Hicks, recently made a joint media release with Robert McClelland, Attorney-General regarding Australia acceding to the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

Kevin Rudd - Prime Minister and former leader of the opposition

Robert McClelland- Attorney-General, recently made a joint media release with Tanya Plibersek Minister for the Status of Women regarding Australia acceding to the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and a joint statement with other Australian Attorneys-General regarding domestic violence

Stephen Smith – Minister Foreign Affairs & Trade

Jenny Macklin - Minister Families & Community Services

Sen Chris Evans – Minister Citizenship and Immigration

Bob Debus – Minister Home Affairs, organised Indonesian prison transfer agreement for Schapelle Corby, “Bali Nine”, immediate finalisation of compensation for Cornelia Rau

Bill Shorten MP- Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities & Children

Sen Andrew Murray

John Howard, former Prime Minister

Senator Bill Heffernan,

Alexander Downer, former Minister Foreign Affairs & Trade, had been made aware of our situation by MP Danna Vale prior to his approval of government financing for Saskatchewan

Julie Bishop, former Minister for the Status of Women

Kaye Patterson, former Minister for the Status of Women

Senator Lynn Allison

Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja

Kay Hull, MP Riverina -had spoken publicly against her party for not intervening for David Hicks and taking responsibility for his need for/right to “judicial fairness” and government intervention

Maxine McKew MP,

Julia Gillard, Deputy Prime Minister, lawyer

Ms Cheryl Kernot - former politician and leader Democrats, currently Centre for Social Impact, The University of New South Wales, contributor to “Ethics and political practice: perspectives on legislative ethics” edited by Noel Preston ad Charles Sampford with C-A Bois, Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy series, The Federation Press, 1998

Phillip Ruddock, former Attorney General

Joe Ludwig, Senator, former Shadow Attorney General

Kerry Nettle – Green Party

Pru Goward, MP New South Wales, formerly director Office of the Status of Women and Sex Discrimination Commissioner

Ms Quentin Bryce, Governor General

Senator Nick Xenophon

Morris Iemma – former NSW Premier and Minister Citizenship

Dr Marie Bashir, NSW Governor

Dana Vale, former MP Hughes -had publicly spoken against her party for not assisting David Hicks, in maiden parliamentary speech talked about the “tyranny of silence” in regard to domestic violence

Brain Pullen – Department Foreign Affairs

Ms Teresa Hart – Department Foreign Affairs

Ms Julia Burns – Office for Women

Elizabeth Broderick – Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)

Prof John McMillan - Commonwealth Ombudsman

Mary Lou Jarvis, campaign organiser for Malcolm Turnbull, organiser Sydney Women of Influence speakers sessions

George Newhouse, federal candidate 2007, lawyer who assisted Vivian Solon Alvarez

Kym Duggan - Assistant Secretary, Family Law Branch, Attorney-General’s Department
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Adele Horin, Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Sheehan, Sydney Morning Herald

Tim Dick, Sydney Morning Herald

Ruth Pollard, Sydney Morning Herald, researcher/wrote series for White Ribbon Day 2008

Andrew Fowler, ABC Investigations

Deb Whitmont, ABC 4 Corners, journalist, lawyer, Walkley Award winner

Lisa Wilkinson, TODAY Show, Channel Nine

Andrew O’Keefe, SUNRISE, Channel Seven

Sophie Mullen, ABC producer “ Q & A”

Rachel Hill, New Matilda

Online Opinion

Australian Policy Online

Janet Fife-Yeomans - Daily Telegraph

Harriet Alexander, Sydney Morning Herald

The Walkley Foundation for Journalism

The Australian Women’s Weekly- Robyn Foyster (Editor-in-Chief) & Wendy Squires (Associate Editor)

“marie claire” – Jackie Frank (Publisher/editor)

Adam Doyle- researcher ABC 7.30 Report

Fran Kelly – ABC (producer “The Howard Years”), current affairs journalist and political correspondent

Susie Eisenhuth, Willa McDonald – “The Writers Reader” Cambridge University Press, 2007

David Marr

Richard Ackland

Michelle Grattan, Sun-Herald

Kerry-Anne Walsh- political commentator Sun-Herald

Hedley Thomas, The Australian, Brisbane – Walkley Award Winner for breaking the Dr Jayant Patel story, author “Sick to Death: A manipulative surgeon and a health system in crisis- a disaster waiting to happen”, Allen & Unwin, 2007

Irene Moss – Australia’s Right to Know Coalition, C/- News Ltd
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Roland Ashby (media director), Anglican Diocese Melbourne – organised public advocacy and church service for David Hicks

Anglicare – Canberra

Vicar General – Bishop Allan Ewing – Anglican Diocese Canberra & Goulburn

Bishop Kay Goldsworthy, Anglican delegate to the United Nations 52nd Convention on the Status of Women

Meaghan Morrison, Anglican delegate to the United Nations 52nd Convention on the Status of Women

The Anglican (newspaper) – extensive article re Kay Goldsworthy and Meaghan Morrison’s attendance at UN Status of Women Convention, churches role and responsibility regarding violence against children and women, and male ministers, bishops etc involvement with the White Ribbon Campaign

Rev Graham Long – The Wayside Chapel, Sydney, assisted David Hicks, recently named one of the 100 most influential people in Sydney 2008

Rev Tim Costello - World Vision, Australia 2020 Summit, Chair Social Inclusion Working Group
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Brain Kahlefeldt OAM – retired lawyer

Dick Smith – assisted and advocated for David Hicks

Francis Montil- formerly United Nations internal investigator
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