Steps for reaching out:
Get to know the person you’re reaching out to by reading the introduction and talking points on the right.
Pick up the phone, or hit the e-mail button, and reach out!
Introduce yourself first: What’s your name, where do you live, why are you reaching out?
Make your point: Why do you hope Kimberly Kitching will support the adoption of a Global Magnitsky Act in Australia?
Offer hope, inspiration, and encouragement -- angry demands usually don’t work.
Kimberly Kitching is passionate about putting families and workers before special interests and lobby groups. She has on various occasions expressed her support for an Australian Magnitsky Act.
Rather than try to persuade her, let’s celebrate her efforts and support for an Australian Magnitsky law, and inspire her to continue pushing for the legislation.
Senator Kitching said “our sovereignty and democratic institutions must be preserved against the threat of rising authoritarian states” and tweeted that “Australia needs #Magnitsky laws to ensure human rights abusers & plunderers cannot live or hide ill-gotten fortunes here. The US, UK & Canada have Magnitsky laws, Australia needs them too.”
She has demanded escalation of safeguards against foreign interference, and has proposed an inquiry into Australia's relations with China, focused on human rights issues, tourism, education and research links.
Connecting with Senator Kitching on this issue:
The Global Magnitsky Act is a valuable tool in combating human rights abuses and gross corruption across the globe.
Australia cannot allow human rights abusers and money launderers to abuse Australia as a safe haven; not as a tourist destination, nor to hide their dirty money.
Adopting the Global Magnitsky Act helps Australia to uphold its commitment to the rule of law and protect all Australians.
