Subject: FW: Offshore detention of asylum seekers who arrived by boat |
From: Stuart Tangye |
Date: 12/02/2016, 10:03 am |
To: "Stuart Tangye s.tangye@garvan.org.au [powderworks]" <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au> |
Stuart Tangye | Head, Immunology Division
Head, Immunology & Immunodeficiency Lab
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
384 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010
NHMRC Principal Research Fellow
Professor, St Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Australia
T: + 61 (0)2 9295 8455 I M: + 61 (0) 413 390 306 I F: +61 (0)2 9295 8404 I E: s.tangye@garvan.org.au
www.garvan.org.au/research/immunology/immunobiology-and-immunodeficiency
Dear Friends and Colleagues
With colleagues I have produced an “Open Letter” to the Prime Minister believing that the mistreatment of asylum seekers to act as a deterrent for those
contemplating a sea voyage in the future fails the most basic ethical test.
I’ve attached the letter in the hope that you might choose to sign it.
If you wish to do so you need only reply to that effect to this email message. Also, please indicate how you wish to be described. There are some examples
in the attachment.
We obviously need to do this as soon as possible and then hope to attract media (including social media) attention to it.
I look forward to your support.
Many thanks and best wishes
John Ziegler