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SCG Asia
Before you contact an SCG Committee Member in Asia, please read our general policy on answering queries below.
SCG Contacts in Asia
We would like to extend and intensify our volunteer coverage in Asia. If you can help, please contact Anne MacGregor.
Are you in Japan or Singapore? We are particularly looking for a volunteer co-ordinator for the SCG in those countries. E-mail Anne MacGregor if you would like to get involved.
People's Republic of China
Our SCG Co-ordinator for Asia is based in Beijing. Ed Smith is an Australian who runs his own business, Beijing Consulting Group, and is also involved in AustCham Beijing and AustCham Shanghai:
Ed Smith
SCG Co-ordinator for the PRC
Suite 1705, 17/F, Zhubang Office Centre,
Chaoyang Road, No. 98 Bali Zhuang Xili,
Chaoyang District, Beijing 100025
People's Republic of China
Telephone: +86 (0)10 8586 6386 / 87
and 8586 6220 ext. 612
Fax: +86 (0)10 8586 6221
E-mail: ed@southern-cross-group.org
Note also that our volunteer Diana Arlen divides her time between Shanghai in the PRC and Melbourne: E-mail: diana@southern-cross-group.org.
Hong Kong / Macau
Our SCG volunteer for Hong Kong/Macau is Leanda Lee, a mother of two and a Japanese speaker. Leanda is presently doing a PhD into expatriate performance management. She also has stocks of our book Australian Expats: stories from abroad, for sales to Australians throughout Asia.
Leanda Lee
SCG Co-ordinator for Hong Kong and Macau
Mobile: + 853 6658 9869
E-mail: leanda@southern-cross-group.org
Taiwan
Australians interested in the SCG's work in Taiwan should contact:
Rita Holt
SCG Volunteer
Taipei, Taiwan
E-mail: rita@southern-cross-group.org
Cambodia
Our SCG volunteer in Cambodia is Kelly Hutchinson. Kelly is also the Secretary of the Australian Business Association of Cambodia:
Kelly Hutchinson
SCG Volunteer
E-mail: kelly@southern-cross-group.org
Sri Lanka
Our SCG volunteer in Sri Lanka is Aaron Williams:
Aaron Williams
Southern Cross Group
Colombo
E-mail: aaron@southern-cross-group.org
India
Our SCG India Coordinator Simon Robinson was born in Melbourne and grew up in Sydney. He's a journalist for Time Magazine who has lived in Africa for about seven years, first in Nairobi, Kenya, and Johannesburg, South Africa. He now has moved to India.
Simon Robinson
Southern Cross Group
New Dehli
India
E-mail: simon@southern-cross-group.org
We have an SCG volunteer who lives close to the Indian/Nepal border in the north:
Pankaj Shanker
SCG Volunteer
India
Telephone: +91 5946 2 50338 (home)
E-mail: pankaj@southern-cross-group.org
Note also that our Volunteer Committee Member Kate Harriden in Canberra has spent considerable time in Thailand and South East Asia over the last few years and is presently studying for a Master of Arts (Asian Studies) at the ANU. Kate can be reached at kate@southern-cross-group.org.
We would very much like to expand our Volunteer Committee with more representatives in Asia. If you are interested in getting involved, please e-mail Anne MacGregor.
We receive many queries every day from Australians around the world. The flood of e-mails is now of such a volume that our volunteer committee is stretched to its limits. While we want to hear your thoughts and views, before you send us a message, please read the following. This will allow us to use our limited resources as effectively as possible, so that we can spend less time answering e-mails and more time developing policy submissions and doing other work of importance to the whole Australian expatriate community.
Requests to be put on the SCG E-Bulletin List
If you simply wish to be put on the SCG's free e-mail bulletin list, please sign yourself up directly rather than writing to us. This will ensure that you automatically receive updates on the progress of our various issues as events occur. Our e-mail list is powered by List Builder software and you can unsubscribe yourself at any time. We do not share your personal contact details with any other individual or organisation.
Requests for Advice on Citizenship, Immigration and Other Matters - Please Make a Donation
Quite a few questions people address to us by e-mail are already comprehensively answered on our website. Please use the search facility at the top of this page to search our whole website BEFORE you e-mail us. You should also check relevant government websites for information before you write to us.
We are receiving an increasing number of complicated queries from people wanting specific advice on their personal citizenship or immigration situation. Some of these queries can take one of our volunteers several hours to answer properly. Requests of this nature should really be addressed to a qualified immigration lawyer in the relevant jurisdiction, rather than to the SCG. While we aim to provide support to members of the Australian diaspora within the confines of our limited volunteer resources, we are not a free immigration and citizenship advice bureau. And it is disheartening to spend a great deal of time preparing responses to these queries when often the recipients even forget to thank us.
We do have a number of lawyers on our volunteer SCG Committee, qualified in various jurisdictions. Some of them have expertise in immigration and citizenship matters. If you send us a query which we judge will take more than 15 minutes to answer, we will e-mail you back and ask you to make a donation of a suggested amount to the Southern Cross Group before we provide you with an answer. You can make your donation using the Amazon Honor System. Your donation will help us pay for website hosting and the many other expenses we face in running the SCG. This is a small way that you can say thank you for the support we provide you with.
You can contact us using our general e-mail address or the e-mail address of the SCG Committee Member nearest you.
