Bullying Letter

Task

Our task was to write a formal letter to the Prime Minister in which I bring his attention an issue that I believe affects young Australians. In your letter you should provide suggestions on how the government can help in minimizing/ elimination this problem.

Letter

St Hilda’s School
52 High Street
SOUTHPORT QLD 4215

18 August 2009

PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

My name is Jaime-Lee Bradford and I am writing this letter about bullying and how I believe affects young Australians. I have recently been around to many public schools on the Gold coast and asked how they felt about bullying and if they thought it was a big issue in there school, not to mention the whole community. During their lunch times I went around and I asked a few people, some students said that they had been bullied numerous of times, but had been too scared to say anything. This is not on and this issue has to be addressed, as it not only effects the student, it affects the school and community.

Bullying is harming the health of young Australians, as it is causing physical injury, leaving people feeling scared and leaving them thinking that they only have very few options in their life. It is making young Australians feel stuck, guilty, alone, not accepted, rejected, depressed, unsafe, afraid, confused, stressed, and ashamed. Bullying should not be tolerated in Australia. It is hurting people, which is leading to highly unnecessary things, such as depression, suicide etc. It needs to stop otherwise this world is never going to have peace and people are not going to be safe. However it is not just the victims that need help, the bullies do to as they only behave like this if they have had experienced difficulties at home or in other work places, have a low self-esteem or have been a victim of bullying themselves and they are trying to find a way to make them feel more powerful.

I hope you will consider this issue as a huge problem that needs to be fixed. You, as the Prime Minister could help this issue by doing simple jobs as you have so much power over Australians. This may include campaigning about it by using television advertisements, billboards or posters. Organizing a show that a bullying company could put together to show at all of the schools or even get staff to run their own activities on bullying. Mr. Prime Minister you may arrange bullying spies at morning tea and lunch for all of the schools and allow permission for all schools to have serious but responsible consequences for the bully. You, as the government can help in minimizing and eliminating bullying, just by putting to action some of the suggestions stated above. I could not thank you enough for taking your time to read this letter on how bullying affects young Australians.

Yours Faithfully,
Jaime-Lee Bradford