letters sent to Labor Party NSW MPs relating to Labor Party policy on offshore detention

Please find below an email that I have sent to Labor party NSW MPs and MLCs. There are 42 of them in all. I've sent 18 and Margie and Georgie will send the remaining 24.

We keep trying!

Regards

Mike

------ Original Message ------
From: "MICHAEL GRIFFIN"
To: kogarah@parliament.nsw.gov.au
Sent: Tuesday, 4 Sep, 2018 At 9:22 AM
Subject: Labor party conference

Dear Mr Minns,

Please find attached two letters which relate to Labor's policy on offshore detention, which I understand will be debated at the upcoming national Labor conference. One letter is addressed to Wayne Swan and was accompanied by 2,067 signatures calling on the Labor party to commit to ending offshore detention if it wins the federal election. The signatures were collected by our local Rural Australians for Refugees group and by other RAR groups across Australia.The second letter has been sent to all federal Labor MPs and senators, urging them to support our plea for a humane and lawful approach to the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers.

We are aware that a number of Labor party branches intend to table motions at your conference calling on the party to firmly commit to ending offshore detention if it wins office, and to make that commitment a part of the party's election platform. We hope that you, as a delegate to the conference, will give unequivocal support to ending this utterly shameful chapter in our history. Too many lives have already been shattered; too many people have died, and to date the Labor party has been largely silent on this issue. 

In hope.

 Mike Griffin. 

 Bellingen and Nambucca District RAR