Campaigning by GetUp members has been widely recognised in the media. Here's a collection of press clippings.
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David Hicks has broken his silence by releasing a short video directly to GetUp members. In the video, he says he is speaking out of concern that the Australian authorities will impose a new control order that will prevent him from closing this chapter of his life.
Date: November 20th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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“Today’s AFP decision is a great relief for my family and me. I owe the Australian people a lot.
I want to thank all Australians for their support. The decision not to renew my control order will allow me for the first time to now move on with my life. Thank you.”
Date: November 20th 2008
Publication: GetUp.org.au
Author: David Hicks
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - The only Guantanamo Bay inmate convicted of terrorism offences, Australian David Hicks, has broken his self-imposed silence, calling on police to relax stringent controls over his freedom since his release from jail.
Date: November 20th 2008
Publication: Reuters
Author: Rob Taylor
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David Hicks' decision to break his silence has been accompanied by fresh demands for the federal government to conduct a major review of counter-terrorism laws.
Date: November 20th 2008
Publication: Sydney Morning Herald
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David Hicks, who spent more than five years in Guantanamo Bay for training at al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, broke his silence today to appeal for security controls imposed by the Australian government to be lifted.
Date: November 20th 2008
Publication: Bloomberg Press
Author: Ed Johnson
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David Hicks has spoken out about his new life, saying the order makes it difficult for him to move on.
Date: November 20th 2008
Publication: The Australian
Author: Samantha Maiden
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FuelWatch stunt no substitute for public transport solutions
Watching the nation’s petrol bowsers rise and fall is no substitute for a massive investment in public transport solutions, Online advocacy group, GetUp! said today.
Date: November 14th 2008
Author: GetUp
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Australians welcome moves toward equality for same sex couples
Tens of Thousands of Australians and their families today welcomed the removal of discrimination against same-sex couples, Advocacy group GetUp! says.
Date: November 13th 2008
Author: GetUp
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Ed Coper, Campaigns Director for GetUp, writes: Re. "Kevin the bureaucrat and the petitions committee" (7 November, item 13). GetUp welcomes Bernard Keane's entry into the debate on e-petitioning
Date: November 13th 2008
Publication: Crikey
Author: Ed Coper
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ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE COULD MAKE TURNBULL PM
Climate change could help put Federal Opposition leader, Malcolm Turnbull on the path to become Australia’s next Prime Minister, according to a membership poll conducted by Australia’s largest advocacy group.
Date: November 8th 2008
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Climate change could cost the Federal Government critical grassroots support in Labor’s inner city heartlands of Melbourne and Sydney, a membership poll conducted by Australian online advocacy group, GetUp! has found.
Date: November 1st 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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A GETUP poll of its members in the inner-city seat of Melbourne has found 84% of Labor supporters are threatening to switch their vote unless the Government takes strong action on climate change.
Date: November 1st 2008
Publication: The Age
Author: Michelle Grattan
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Last year a GetUp nationwide poll made politicians and pundits sit up and take notice - over 70% of Australians want same sex couples to have the same legal rights as de facto couples. A GetUp petition launched to tell politicians the time had come to remove this unfairness.
Date: October 15th 2008
Publication: Generation Q
Author: Natalie Kalow
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Debate will begin in the Federal Senate today over proposed changes to remove discrimination against same sex couples.
Date: October 15th 2008
Publication: ABC Online
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"MUD Marathon runner Lindsay 'Butch' Titmarsh carried the GetUp! Climate Torch the last 1km leg of its national relay at the weekend, to make his contribution to protests against the proposed Traveston Crossing dam.
Date: October 14th 2008
Publication: The Gympie Times
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Senators on all sides of politics must immediately pass new laws to remove discrimination against same-sex couples, Australia’s largest independent political organisation urged today.
Date: October 14th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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Momentum is building for real government and civil society action to address the world’s serious environmental crisis. One such organisation is Get-Up.
This Sunday morning, in Canberra’s fine spring weather, Get Up orange clad activists and their children gathered to welcome the...
Date: October 13th 2008
Publication: Chris White Online
Author: Chris White
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Ignoring the threat of climate change would send the world into an economic tailspin far greater than that of the global financial meltdown, the Greens warned yesterday .
Date: October 13th 2008
Publication: The Canberra Times
Author: Claire Low
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ACT Labor has promised to bulk-buy solar panels for Canberrans if re-elected, giving people a discount of up to $4000 on solar energy.
Date: October 13th 2008
Publication: The Canberra Times
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Greens leader Bob Brown has warned the government not to lose its nerve on an emissions trading scheme as Treasurer Wayne Swan refused to commit to its 2010 timetable.
Date: October 12th 2008
Publication: The West Australian
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GREENS leader Bob Brown has warned the government not to lose its nerve on an emissions trading scheme as Treasurer Wayne Swan refused to commit to its 2010 timetable.
Date: October 12th 2008
Publication: The Australian
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GREENS leader Bob Brown has warned the government not to lose its nerve on an emissions trading scheme as Treasurer Wayne Swan refused to commit to its 2010 timetable.
Date: October 12th 2008
Publication: The Australian
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On October 10, 200 people attended “This is an emergency: an introduction to the real science of global warmingâ€. The public forum was also the official launch of a new environmental organisation in Adelaide, the Climate Emergency Action Network (CLEAN).
Date: October 11th 2008
Publication: Green Left Online
Author: Simon Butler
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People took to the streets of Fremantle today to promote solutions to climate change as part of the Getup Torch Relay.
Date: October 4th 2008
Publication: The West Australian
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IT’S not the Olympic Torch, yet it still carries a certain degree of importance in the world.
It’s the Climate Change torch and it will be in Tathra on Monday.
Date: October 3rd 2008
Publication: Bega District News
Author: Steve Stevrens
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IT’S time to stretch your legs and make a statement as the GetUp Climate Torch Relay comes to Moruya next week.
Date: October 3rd 2008
Publication: Bay Post
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GetUp is responding to the final Garnaut Report by today calling on the Prime Minister to ensure Australia become one of the economic winners from the transition to a new economy based on renewable energy.
Date: September 30th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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AN OLYMPIC-STYLE torch powered by the sun, wind and a lemon has arrived in Darwin as part of a national relay.
Date: September 30th 2008
Publication: Northern Territory News
Author: Ben Langford
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VOTERS think new federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull will green up his party's climate change policy, a poll has found.
Date: September 30th 2008
Publication: news.com.au
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Today GetUp released the results of a GetUp-commissioned Galaxy poll showing Australians think the recent change in leadership makes the Liberal Party more likely to adopt policies which reduce climate change.
Date: September 29th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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A new torch relay calling on the Australian Government to act on climate change is set to arrive at Darwin's Parliament House this morning.
Date: September 29th 2008
Publication: ABC Online
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Paid parental leave for a year sounds like a great idea - hey, why not make it two? Lots of time to bond with the new bundle of joy, with money from the government coming in to keep up the mortgage repayments. It sounds like a dream come true - money for nothin’ and parental leave for free.
Date: September 29th 2008
Publication: Online Opinion
Author: Jessica Brown
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THE climate change debate is being brought to Albany this Friday when a leg of the National Climate Torch Relay is run through the streets.
Date: September 25th 2008
Publication: Walbany and Great Southern Weekender
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he National Climate Torch arrived in Brisbane yesterday, its solar, wind, hand-crank and lemon powered LED display transmitting a message of sustainability - urging a halving of Australia's greenhouse emissions by 2020.
Date: September 19th 2008
Publication: Brisbane Times
Author: Andrew Wright
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The visit of the GetUp! climate torch to Kangaroo Island culminated in a circuit of the Dudley Memorial Oval at half-time of the A Grade football final on Saturday and presentation of the torch to the Kangaroo Island Mayor Jayne Bates.
Date: September 19th 2008
Publication: The Islander
Author: Kathie Stove
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The pressure ramps up over the fate of the Murray river system today, with the launch of a campaign by online community campaigning group GetUp calling for a three-step plan to save the river.
Date: September 19th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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Last Saturday the GetUp Climate Torch Relay, touring right across Australia on its way to Parliament House in Canberra, rolled into Mullumbimby to acknowledge its number one position in the country for the number of houses, per capita, signed up for solar power.
Date: September 11th 2008
Publication: Byron Shire News
Author: Christine McNeill
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Days after it passed through hands opposed to the Traveston Crossing Dam, the GetUp! Climate Change Torch Relay was in the Noosa hinterland yesterday to raise awareness of the plight of residents opposed to the construction of high voltage powerlines.
Date: September 10th 2008
Publication: Sunshine Coast Daily Online
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FEDERAL Environment Minister Peter Garrett has infuriated the Greens by granting Gunns Ltd an extra three months to get its Bell Bay pulp mill approved.
Date: September 9th 2008
Publication: The Mercury
Author: Bruce Mounster
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WARBURTON environment group members joined forces to hold a torch up to carbon protection issues last week.
Date: September 9th 2008
Publication: Star News Group
Author: Kath Gannaway
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THE Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, has been accused of granting favours to forestry company Gunns over its controversial pulp mill project in northern Tasmania.
Date: September 9th 2008
Publication: The Australian
Author: Christian Kerr
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The Federal Government has been accused of granting favours and kowtowing to Gunns Ltd over its controversial Tasmanian pulp mill project.
Date: September 8th 2008
Publication: The Age
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GetUp has criticised the Federal Environment Minister for granting further favours to Gunns in order to see their Bell Bay pulp mill built – this time extending the deadline for the Environmental Impact Management Plan (EIMP).
Date: September 8th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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About 200 protesters took part in the GetUp! climate torch relay in Wonthaggi on August 30, burying their heads in the sand on the beach to symbolise the state government’s response to climate change.
Date: September 7th 2008
Publication: Green Left Online
Author: Ben Courtise
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ONE of four Get Up climate torches making their way across the country has made a quick changeover in Gympie enroute from Bundaberg to Brisbane.
Date: September 5th 2008
Publication: The Gympie Times
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A leg of the GetUp Climate Torch Relay will be run through Mullumbimby on Saturday.
Date: September 4th 2008
Publication: Byron Shire News
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IT looked like an Olympic torch but was powered by a lemon and it also featured a solar panel.
Date: September 4th 2008
Publication: Wauchope Gazette
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The conservation movement's answer to the Olympic torch relay is coming to the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam site this weekend.
Date: September 4th 2008
Publication: Brisbane Times
Author: Tony Moore
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Carbon emissions can only be reduced by
people power, a message spread by Scotts Head Public School’s students by pushing a colourful billy cart up Waratah Street on Friday (29th).
Date: September 4th 2008
Publication: Guardian News
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MORE than 50 organisations have stepped up pressure on the Rudd Government to begin consultation on human rights within three months and to ensure Australians from all walks of life are included in the process.
Date: September 1st 2008
Publication: The Australian
Author: Nicola Berkovic
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