Petition's rarely accomplish anything. Especially online petitions. What does the Australian Government care if their are 500K names annonamously signed to a petition. They don't know whether these are Australian voters or simply people from other countries. Second of all some people will sign the petition multiple times.
The only kinds of petitions that work are the physical paper petition signed locally in their country. The ones where they know that these are their voters.
If you want to change the Government's decision the only way to do so is to get fellow Australians to sign a localized petition. Another effective method is to get thousands of Australians to contact their Government leaders and plead with them to over turn the ruling.
Only the Australian voters have the power to change their governments mind!
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
