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	Click on the image to send an e-card to Rudd and Downer

Get poverty on the agenda for the Federal Budget

The ASU is a supporter of the Make Poverty History campaign and as such we ask our subscribers and members to consider supporting the campaigns latest action to have poverty on the agenda in the lead up to the next Federal Budget.

Take a minute to get poverty on the agenda as the Government formulates the 2007 Federal budget.

Send a message to the Leader of the Opposition, Kevin Rudd, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Downer and your local MP. Let them know you want them to do more to address global poverty in 2007 by allocating additional funding to overseas aid in the Federal budget. After all, they are in a very real sense our 'employees'. We must not let them forget it.

Politicians are elected representatives of the people - but how can we expect them to act on our behalf unless they know what's important to us?

Go here to send an e-card to Downer and Rudd: http://www.worldvision.com.au/wvconnect/email_mp_budget.asp

Learn more about the ASU's involvement in the campaign here: http://www.asu.asn.au/campaigns/makepovertyhistory.html