Join CAUBE.AU
Membership of CAUBE.AU is open to anybody in Australia who shares CAUBE.AU's opposition to email spam.
You will need to provide us with your name, your email address, your physical address, your citizenship status and your federal electorate. For more information see - why we collect this information, what we do with it, and what happens if you don't provide it.
If you don't know your federal electorate, you can look it up by visiting the Australian Electoral Commission web site and selecting the "Electorate Search" link towards the bottom left hand corner of the page.
You will be sent an electronic mail message which will tell you how to confirm your membership. It is vital that you read this message and confirm the membership, otherwise we cannot count you as a member.
Why we collect this information and what we do with it
We would rather not collect this information, however because CAUBE.AU undertakes lobbying activities on behalf of its members, we are obliged to take all reasonable steps to maintain the integrity of the membership list. We also need to have membership statistics broken out by states and electorates, and we need to be able to provide politicians with evidence of those statistics.
The email address supplied on the web forms is used to send a request to confirm your membership. This serves as a mechanism to prevent rampant fraud of the signup pages. If you check the box to subscribe to the newsletter, we will also send you the CAUBE.AU newsletter by email. Regular editions of this newsletter will appear approximately once every three months, and special events such as a time critical political action may result in special edition newsletters. Additionally, if there is ever any question raised regarding the validity of your membership, we may use email to contact you.
All information except the email address may be provided to sitting Members and Senators, but only information on CAUBE.AU members in the electorate of the Member or state of the Senator in question.
CAUBE.AU will not supply your email address to anybody under any circumstances.
The state and electorate information, in addition to being used to determine which politicians might be given your details, will be used to maintain statistics on membership by state and electorate.
What happens if you don't provide it
If you don't provide a valid email address you will be unable to confirm your membership. As we cannot count unconfirmed members in any context, this means the membership will be void.
If you don't provide valid address information, some politicians may disregard you as a member, thus reducing the weight of your membership in our lobbying efforts. If you still wish to withhold this information, use a hyphen ("-") in the "address" and "town/suburb" fields, and '0000' in the postcode field.
If you do not want us to supply any of your information at all to politicians, you can choose "Not Represented" for your electorate and "Other Territory" for your state. Note that once again, politicians may disregard members who do this, so it does weaken our lobbying efforts.