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How Members Can Contribute
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This page provides information about how Members can contribute to the operation
of the APF. It comprises three sections:
Invitation
to Become a Member
Please read the APF's Obectives. If
you want to, please also read its Rules of
Incorporation.
To join, go to the Membership Form, and follow
the instructions. If you have any questions, here are the
association's contact points.
The annual subscription fees are set low, in order to make
sure that they are not a barrier to people joining.
If you want to make a more substantial financial contribution, please consider
life membership, or a donation, or a contribution
to a specific campaign. Room is provided for each of these on the application
and renewal forms. The funds are used to support research, and to pay the travel
costs involved in getting people with appropriate expertise in front of parliamentary
and government committees.
Actions
By Members
There are many things that APF Members can do, in order to contribute to the
protection of privacy in Australia. These include:
- subscribe to the
privacy discussion list, read other people's postings, and make your own
contributions to it. (The list is run by Electronic Frontiers Australia, in
conjunction with APF)
- monitor the media, and draw people's attention to issues, to important
news about issues, and to sources of information
- keep your eyes open to privacy-related issues in your community, workplace,
and school, and draw people's attention to issues, to important news about
issues, and to sources of information
- propose enhancements to the APF's web-site, especially the Resources,
Contacts and Issues
sections
- participate in activities organised by the Foundation
- become familiar with current Australian privacy laws
and relevant laws of your State or Territory, and get involved with government reviews of those
laws that happen from time to time
- join and contribute to organisations that support the values of the Foundation,
and that operate at State or local level, or that focus on particular segments
(like health or the workplace), or particular issues (like video-surveillance
or tele-marketing)
- volunteer your time and expertise by serving on Foundation committees,
task forces, and working groups
- recruit new members, both individuals and organisations
Research
and Advocacy
The APF has been conducting research, and advocating the public interest, since
1987. This has resulted in scores of submissions
in relation to a wide variety of issues, and appearances before many official
committees.
The APF is a volunteer organisation, and depends on its members for expertise,
and for energy. People are needed with the following qualities:
- concern about privacy
- expertise in privacy generally
- expertise in areas in which privacy issues arise, such as information technology,
health care, telecommunications, road transport, industrial law, privacy law,
etc.
- expertise in, and/or the preparedness to research, privacy issues in one
or more specific areas
- expertise in the written and/or verbal presentation of carefully researched
arguments to parliaments, official committees, government agencies, industry
associations, and corporations
- the energy to study documents, prepare working papers, draft and review
position papers, negotiate with organisations, and participate in media campaigns
- responsibility and steadiness in dealing with corporations, government
agencies and the media
- the patience to coax and cajole organisations towards understanding of
privacy concerns
If this sounds like you, and you would like to be involved in APF's research
and advocacy activities, we'd be delighted to hear from you via the
association's contact points. If you want to contribute by assisting with
a submission, please read the Submission Guidelines.
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