AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF AUTHORS to set up a PETITION

We'll let you know when the PETITION is put up on the ASA website. I do have reservations about Petitions. People sign them and think, 'There, I've done my bit, and that's all I need to do'. But it's not. 

It's only one tiny part. 

The only true action is badgering politicians, relentlessly. 

Take it from those who lived through the relentless civil justice atrocities and political chicanery of the Jo Bjelke-Petersen era in Queensland, nothing is as effective as ordinary people pestering their local politicians because they are deeply concerned about an issue that will affect their lives.