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Statement from concerned representatives of Australian Universities

By 416 University Professionals - posted Tuesday, 5 October 2004

As teachers, researchers, honorary research affiliates and administrators in the universities of Australia we have a professional responsibility to attain the highest possible standards of integrity and accountability. We have to be trustworthy. The same standards should be expected of everyone in public life.

We are therefore dismayed by the dishonesty that has characterised the conduct of the Howard Government. Among many examples of duplicity, the Australian public has been lied to about the children of asylum seekers being thrown overboard, has been deceived over claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and lied to again over the reasons for participating in the war in Iraq. That war has had catastrophic consequences for the Iraqi people, and has made the world far less safe from the violence of terrorism as well as from the violence perpetrated by the armed forces of different states.

This Federal election provides an opportunity for both Mr Howard and Mr Latham to pledge that they will insist on truth and genuine accountability in government.

It is time to reassert the values of impartiality and decency in public service and to restore Australia’s reputation for honest and independent government. In the last weeks of the election campaign the leaders of the major parties are asked to address these issues. They should not be allowed to avoid them.

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The 416 university professionals are: Iraj Afnan, Paul Agius, Felicity Allen, Michael Allen, Philip Almond, Garth Alperstein, Margaret Alston, Dennis Altman, Jonathan Anderson, Tim Anderson, Merilyn Annells, Sue Armitage, Anthony Ashbolt, Alan Atkinson, Diane Austin-Broos, Hans Bachor, Wendy Bacon, Richard Bagnall, Susan Bailey, Anthony Baker, Chris Barker, Geremie Barme, Robert Bartnik, Graham Barwell, Richard Bates, Paul Battersby, Fran Baum, Clive Bean, Jeremy Beckett, Ian Bedford, Ron Bedford, Larissa Behrendt, Stephen Bell, Chandra Bhuta, David Birch, Jill Blackmore, Ann Blake, Trish Bolton, Natalie Bolzan, Andrew Bonnell, Gillian Bottomley, Clare Bradford, Benjamin Bradley, Veronica Brady, Igor Bray, Marie Brennan, Linda Briskman, Peter Brosnan, Rhonda Brown, Paula Bruce, Chilla Bulbeck, David Burch, Verity Burgmann, John Burnheim, Lynda Burns, Judith Burton, Tom Burvill, Laurie Buys, Paul Cally, Joseph Camilleri, Stuart Campbell, David Carter, Raymond Cas, Pamela Cawthrone, Chris Chamberlain, Esther Charlesworth, Janet Chase, Ian Clark, Helen Cleak, Michael Clyne, Andrew Cockburn, Milton Cohen, Mike Collingridge, R. W. Connell, Edgar Conrad, Ian Coupar, Eva Cox, Phil Crane, Tony Crawfod, Simon Cropper, Jack Crosbie, Brendan Crotty, Robert Cummins, Jan Currie, Justin Dabner, Ann Daniel, Bharat Dave, Brian Davey, Trevor Day, Marie de Lepervanche, Margaret Deery, Jane den Hollander, Erol Digiusto, Sima Dimitrijev, Geoff Dow, Jocelyn Dunphy-Blomfield, Paul Edwards, Doug Elliot, Brian Ellis, Terry Farr, Roger Fay, Christine Ferrari, Carole Ferrier, John Fien, Andrea Fischer, John Fitzgerald, William Foley, Larry Forbes, Jon Ford, Phil Foreman, Richard Freadman, Margarita Frederico, Edmond Fung, Paul Gatenby, Penny Gay, Devleena Ghosh, Sandy Gifford, Helen Gilbert, Geoff Ginn, Chris Goddard, Heather Goodall, Jane Goodall, Susan Goodwin, Peter Goodyear, Dennis Gray, Gwen Gray, Cathy Greenfield, Bill Griffiths, Tom Griffiths, Russell Grigg, Colin Groves, Brian Gulson, Neil Gunningham, Richard Gunstone, Ghassan Hage, Gustaaf Hallegraeff, Gail Hart, Victor Hart, Laurence Hartley, Dennis Haskell, Paul Havemann, Gay Hawkins, Martin Hayden, Helen Hayes, Paul Henman, David Henry, John Henry, Phil Heywood, Brian Hill, David Hill, Stuart Hill, Graham Holland, Julie Holledge, Cliff Hooker, Alex Hope, Sandra Hopkins, Max Hopwood, Bruce Horsfield, Evelyn Hovenga, Brian Howe, Richard Howitt, John Hughes, Michael Humphrey, Robert Hunter, Rosemary Hunter, Michael Hurley, Peter Hutchings, Dominic Hyde, Jim Ife, Dexter Irvine, Jude Irwin, Mark Israel, Liz Jacka, Andrew Jakubowicz, Paul James, Laksiri Jayasuriya, Colin Jevons, Bruce Johnson, Judith Johnston, Evan Jones, Judith Jones, Peter Jones, Trevor Jordan, Marie Joyce, Heath Kelly, Gavin Kendall, Jane Kenway, Jeff Kenworthy, Peter Kershaw, Shahjahan Khan, James King, Roger King, Susan Kippax, Joyce Kirk, Maggie Kirkman, Gavin Kitching, Louise Kloot, Marie Knox, Paul Komesaroff, Vivienne Kondos, Henrike Körner, Linda Kristjanson, Jeri Kroll, Marguerite La Caze, Leon Lack, Anthony LaMontagne, Carmel Laragy, Andrew Lattas, Michael Lattke, Geoffrey Lawrence, Gillian Leahy, Robert Leckey, Phaik-See Lee, Katrina Lee Koo, David Legge, Neil Leiper, Sabina Leitman, David Lemmings, Daniel Leonard, Frank Lewins, Miles Lewis, Tony Liddicoat, Carla Lipsig-Mumme, Christopher Lloyd, Genevieve Lloyd, William Logan, Michael Long, Bob Lonne, Kam Louie, Ian Lowe, Monica MacCallum, Andrew Mack, Malcolm Macmillan, Ken Macnab, Doug Mahar, Elizabeth Malcolm, Jeff Malpas, Peter Manning, Virginia Mansel Lees, Roxanne Marcotte, Julie Marcus, Derick Marsh, Shane Martin, Donna McAuliffe, Alison McClelland, Glenn McConell, Robyn McDermott, Geoff McFadden, John McGuire, Peter Mcilwain, Michael McKinley, Stuart McLean, Tony McMahon, Joan McMeeken, Tony McMichael, Anne McMurray, Luke McNamara, Paul McNeill, Grant McTainsh, Fred Menk, Constant Mews, Andrew Milner, Lawrie Moloney, Melissa Monfries, Bob Montgomery, Gavin Mooney, Andrew Moore, Morris Morley, Stephen Muecke, S. N. Mukherjee, John Murphy, Lindsey Napier, Chris Nash, Brian Nelson, Ephraim Nimni, Carolyn Noble, William Noble, Robert Norton, Graeme Nyberg, Gary O'Donovan, Nicholas O'Dwyer, Peter O'Meara, Lynelle Osburn, John O'Toole, Barbara Pamphilon, Tim Parkin, Allan Patience, Susan Paxton, Michael Pearson, Sharron Pfueller, Robert Pike, Muriel Porter, Garrett Prestage, Graham Priest, Michael Pusey, Marian Quartly, John Quiggin, Kalpana Ram, Jennifer Redman, Bob Reece, Karl Reed, Stuart Rees, Peter Renshaw, Margaret Reynolds, Paul Reynolds, Robert Rice, Jeff Richardson, Alan Roberts, Ian Robinson, Peter Roennfeldt, Louis Roller, Flavio Romano, Ian Rouse, Terry Rout, Noel Rowe, Lyndall Ryan, Jo Salmon, Michael Sawer, Christopher Scanlon, David Schak, Margot Schofield, Neville Schofield, Roger Scott, Krishna Sen, Jan Servaes, Deborah Setterlund, Chandra Shah, Ahmad Shboul, Peter Shearman, Mary Sheehan, Julia Shelley, Max Shelton, Susan Sheridan, Rosalyn Shute, Stefania Siedlecky, Sankar Sinha, Don Sinnott, Greg Skilbeck, Christina Slade, Sean Slavin, Rhonda Small, J. J. C. Smart, Anthony Smith, Clifton Smith, Pamela Snow, Ilana Snyder, Bing So, Charles Sowerwine, Charles Stahl, Margaret Stebbing, Niamh Stephenson, Don Stewart, Barry Stillman, Frank Stilwell, Robin Storer, Margaret Stuart, Ralph Summy, David Suter, Boyd Swinburn, Angela Taft, John Talent, Sandra Taylor, Diana Temple, Frank Tesoriero, Elaine Thompson, Martin Thompson, Don Thomson, Jane Thomson, Margaret Thornton, Rosamund Thorpe, Christis Tombazos, Matthias Tomczak, John Tomlinson, Joanne Tompkins, Bob Tonkinson, Judith Trimble, Carl Trocki, Ian Tyrell, Russell Tytler, Brian Usher, Stan van Hooft, Glenda Verrinder, James Vickers, Tony Vinson, Theo Vos, Lal Wadhwa, Iain Walker, Rae Walker, Paul Waring, Anne Warren, Bill Warren, Elizabeth Waters, Andrew Watkins, Charles Watson, Rob Watts, Fran Waugh, Alan Webb, Ruth Webber, W. R. Webster, Linda Weiss, David West, Dianne Westerhuis, Bob White, Rob White, David Willenborg, Mark Williams, Jon Willis, Alex Wodak, Heather Worth, Christopher Wortham, Stanley Yeo, David Young, Deborah Young, Frank Zelko, Charles Zika, and Joanna Zubrzycki.

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