Home

FAQs

Media Liaison

Recent Commentary:

Letters-to-the-Editor

Formal Comment

Opinion Articles

Media Commentary

   Corrections

   Upcoming Media

Issues Index

Defence Brief

Defender:

      Defender Index

      Major Furphy

      Book Reviews

Individual Membership

Corporate Membership

Corporate Subscriptions to Defender and Defence Brief

About Us:

   Board of Directors

   Policy

   Key Issues

   Submissions & Reports

   Bequests

   ADA Activities

   Conference Calendar

   Defence Links

   Recommended Bookshops

ADF Support

Defender Production:

  Style Guide – Articles

  Style Guide – Reviews

  Cover & Page Advertising

  Insert Advertising

 

 

 

 

 


Latest ADA Commentary

Hot Topics:

Uranium sales to India

Asylum and Refugee Policy

Women in combat


ADA National Office:

Media Liaison

General Enquiries

Feedback to the ADA

Defender

Advertising in Defender

Twitter:

PO Box 320
Erindale Centre
ACT 2903
Australia

(02) 6231-4444

+61-2-6231-4444

If you have something to say about national security you can also tell these prominent people

 

Providing Feedback to the Australia Defence Association


Thank you for offering your views to the Australia Defence Association (ADA). Vibrant, informed and objective public debate is essential for Australia's defence.

As Australia's longstanding independent, non-partisan, community-based, public-interest guardian organisation and think-tank on defence and wider national security issues, we naturally take great care with our contributions to informed public debate. We welcome supportive or critical feedback on our efforts but observe the legitimate community expectation that any proper feedback from you needs to be informed and as carefully expressed too.

Feedback on asylum seeking and refugee issues (January 2012)

If you intend to provide feedback on recent ADA comment on asylum and refugee issues, please first read our comprehensive discussion paper on this matter. Otherwise any attempts at critical feedback in particular run the risk of being based on misunderstandings or incorrect assumptions and thereby a waste of your time.

Please also note (below) your responsibilities when offering feedback, and the minimum requirements that any comment be courteous, reasonable and informed before it can be accepted, processed and answered.

Your responsibilities when offering feedback

We make every attempt to answer genuine and reasonably expressed feedback. We cannot reply to you, however, if your comments are in any way anonymous, abusive, illegal, unduly subjective or otherwise unreasonably deficient in contributing to informed public debate.

If you intend to offer negative feedback please check that the facts actually correspond with your perceived understanding of them. In particular, please check that you are not acting precipitantly before you have found out or understood what we actually said in full, rather than you just reacting to the often much briefer comments that were broadcast or published by the media:

  • Remember that television and radio programs are edited by the broadcaster and newspaper reports can be inaccurate. While great care is taken with ADA commentary such media editing and misreporting is beyond our control. Long experience has taught us that media editing or misreporting can lead to misunderstandings, or worse, when our explanations or other commentary are unduly truncated by the media and broadcast or reported incomplete, out of context or in a sensationalist manner.

  • You especially need to make sure your feedback has not relied on a single – and especially a short – quote in a media report without checking that your understanding of the whole issue involved, and of our actual position on the wider matter concerned, is complete and indeed reasonable in the circumstances. If, for example, you have misheard or misunderstood us based on a single attributed comment or edited media quote we might actually agree rather than disagree with you on the issue concerned

Any feedback that you want or expect to be published must conform with our terms and conditions for the supply of content. Your provision of feedback signifies your agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions.

Minimum requirements for your feedback to be read

  • Filtering. Please note that in the interests of informed public debate, and to weed out fraudulent, mischievous and sadly some crank feedback, your email will be automatically filtered out as spam and fail to be delivered unless you:

    • fill in the subject line of your email with an intelligible and relevant entry that assists us in directing it to the best person to answer you;

    • have the courtesy and integrity to identify yourself appropriately, as we do in our public comment and on this website, by providing as a minimum your first name and family name, your telephone number and your postal address, so you can verify your credibility as an interlocutor and so consequent discussion can usefully occur by the most effective means (and not just be confined to unnecessarily delayed, time-consuming or subject-limiting email exchanges);

    • explain your interest and/or claimed expertise concerning the subject you are commenting on adequately and in a polite and calm manner; and

    • ensure that your comments are not personally derogatory, otherwise offensive or defamatory; are not in contempt of a court or otherwise illegal; and are not repetitious, meaningless or containing clear errors of fact that would or should be known by any reasonable person.

  • Non-Delivery of Feedback. Please also note the most common reasons why your feedback email fails to be delivered is because you:

    • have not filled in the subject line of your email or have filled it in so generally that it does not enable redirection;

    • have not identified yourself appropriately (as noted in the second filtering sub-bullet point above);

    • are using a generic web-based email provider (hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc) and have not included other verifiable information to prove your credibility and that you are who you claim to be;

    • have been both abusive and anonymous (and therefore negated any possible credibility or relevance in your attempted comments); and/or

    • have not expressed your feedback appropriately, especially in terms that contribute to informed public debate (as noted in the third and fourth filtering sub-bullet points above).

Feedback addresses

  • Our postal address for feedback is: Feedback, Australia Defence Association, PO Box 320, Erindale Centre, ACT, 2903, Australia

  • Your email comment can be forwarded to ADA Feedback.

Home | Latest Comment | Issues Index | Defender | Defence Brief | Membership | Subscriptions
Key Issues | Major Furphy | Submissions & Reports | Policy Paper | Defence Links |
Board of Directors

 

To preserve its independence and ensure transparency the corporate administrative structure of the
Australia Defence Association is organised as a not-for-profit public company (ABN 16 083 007 390)
limited by guarantee under the Corporations Act 2001

Copyright © 1997-2012 Australia Defence Association. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy, Security, Disclaimers and Copyright