Campaigning by GetUp members has been widely recognised in the media. Here's a collection of press clippings.
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SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, a Mandarin-speaking former diplomat who seems to have the ear of Chinese President Hu Jintao, called on Wednesday for Beijing to stage a free and clean Olympics.
Date: August 6th 2008
Publication: Reuters
Author: Michael Perry
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promised to raise human rights issues with China's leaders during a visit to Beijing for the Olympic Games opening ceremony.
Date: August 6th 2008
Publication: SBS World News Australia
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A new television advertisement appealing for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to speak out on Tibetan human rights at the Beijing Olympics will be aired on Channel Seven this week.
Date: August 6th 2008
Publication: ABC Online
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Advocacy Group GetUp says it has not been told if the screening of its Tibetan human rights advertisment on Channel Seven at the start of the Olympic Games opening ceremony will breach event broadcast rules.
Date: August 6th 2008
Publication: ABC Online
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PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has promised he won't be deterred from discussing human rights when he makes his Olympics visit to Beijing.
Date: August 6th 2008
Publication: The Australian
Author: Sandra O'Malley
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'Silence is not golden' - GetUp executive director, Brett Solomon, talks to 2UE radio in Sydney about GetUp's new ads raising the issue of tibet during the olympic games.
Date: August 6th 2008
Publication: 2UE Radio
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Activists will screen an advertisement urging Kevin Rudd to speak to the Chinese leadership about finding a solution for Tibet during his visit to the Beijing Olympics.
Date: August 6th 2008
Publication: SBS World News Australia
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A new television advertisement appealing for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to speak out on Tibetan human rights at the Beijing Olympics will be aired on Channel Seven this week.
Date: August 6th 2008
Publication: ABC Online
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Advocacy Group GetUp says it has not been told if the screening of its Tibetan human rights advertisment on Channel Seven at the start of the Olympic Games opening ceremony will breach event broadcast rules.
Date: August 6th 2008
Publication: ABC News
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A "Free Tibet" activist group will screen an advertisement urging Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to speak to the Chinese leadership about finding a solution for Tibet during his visit to the Olympics in Beijing.
Date: August 6th 2008
Publication: Sydney Morning Herald
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Press Conference today - Launch of Controversial New TV Ad:
‘Please Mr Rudd Speak Out On Tibet’.
Date: August 6th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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GetUp and the Australia Tibet Council have released a bold new TV ad containing a heartfelt plea to the Prime Minister from Australia’s Tibetan community – ‘Please use your visit to China to advocate for our rights’.
Date: August 6th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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THE blog culture has been slow to take off here. I can tell, because too few politicians and journalists are jumping like they've been bitten.
Date: August 1st 2008
Publication: Herald Sun
Author: Andrew Bolt
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RELAXING the detention system could let hundreds of illegal immigrants disappear into the community, the Opposition says.
Under a new system unveiled by Immigration Minister Chris Evans today, asylum seekers and people caught overstaying their visas will be detained only if they pose a risk to...
Date: July 29th 2008
Publication: Herald Sun
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REFUGEE groups have welcomed policy changes to Australia's "appalling" and "inhumane" mandatory detention of asylum seekers.
Asylum seekers and people caught overstaying their visas will be detained while their cases are finalised only if they pose a risk to the community under a new system...
Date: July 29th 2008
Publication: The Australian
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Free at Last! GetUp applauds detention policy but calls for firm legislation to bind it.
Senator Evansʼ announcement that detention will be used only as a last resort and for the shortest possible time is major step forward, but now legislative change must follow to set it in stone.
Date: July 29th 2008
Author: GetUp
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Sydney - Sydney lawyer Brett Solomon has heaps of clout in Australian politics.
In July, when the pope visited Australia, he frightened Catholic leaders by threatening to mobilize his 280,000 followers in protests over the new police powers voted through to protect the pontiff.
Date: July 24th 2008
Publication: www.topnews.in
Author: Sahil Nagpal
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The Obama campaign can teach us how to bring some energy back into British politics and revive the progressive movement
Date: July 24th 2008
Publication: www.guardian.co.uk
Author: Sunder Katwala
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ACTIVISTS are about to turn Australia's $1.3 trillion superannuation pool into the next big weapon.
Date: July 23rd 2008
Publication: The Age
Author: Leon Gettler
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Climate Minister Penny Wong has called the emissions trading scheme (ETS) a carbon pollution reduction scheme, or CPR, which produces mental images of carbon dioxide being pumped into drowning victims. Meanwhile, the team at GetUp have labelled it an 'omissions trading scheme'.
Date: July 17th 2008
Publication: Australian Financial Review
Author: Andrew White
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GetUp is concerned that today’s Green Paper, outlining options for a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, risks putting in place an “omissions trading scheme” that leaves out Australia’s biggest polluters and many other aspects of a scheme that would effectively reduce Australia’s...
Date: July 16th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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GetUp.org.au have announced the winning design of their World Youth Day ‘non-annoying T-shirt’ competition...“With parts of the controversial World Youth Day ‘annoyance’ laws being overturned today we are now confident that Getup members wearing this T-shirt will not be facing potential...
Date: July 15th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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Today, GetUp! has urged Australia’s political leaders – including Dr Nelson – to unite in confronting the challenge of climate change.
Date: July 11th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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CLIMATE change guru Ross Garnaut has been turned into a cartoon to try and help explain his message.
Progressive lobby group GetUp has transformed Prof Garnaut, an economist, into a cartoon hero.
Date: July 9th 2008
Publication: www.livenews.com.au
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GetUp has creatively condensed 600 pages of the Draft Garnaut Report into a 3 minute animation which effectively communicates to the public the measures that need to be taken to secure Australia’s climate future.
Date: July 8th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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WHERE US politics goes so too, inevitably, does the Australian polity and its parties. In America, New York Times journalist and author Matt Bai has analysed the newly decisive effect of internet politics on the present presidential race in his book The Argument; Inside the Battle to Remake...
Date: July 7th 2008
Publication: The Australian
Author: Glenn Milne
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IF GLOBAL popular opinion is the new international superpower, then Brett Solomon may one day rule the world.
Date: July 7th 2008
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Damien Murphy
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With debate continuing over fuel prices and Garnaut's Draft Report on climate change released today, ABC's midday news interviewed GetUp's Brett Solomon on the FuelWatch ad campaign ...
Date: July 4th 2008
Publication: ABC1 Midday News
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THE prominent Catholic priest and lawyer Frank Brennan has condemned new police powers for World Youth Day as a "dreadful interference" with civil liberties and contrary to Catholic teaching on human rights.
Date: July 3rd 2008
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Linda Morris, Joel Gibson and Jano Gibson
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BOB Hawke has attacked the pulp mill proposed for Tasmania, describing its environmental impact as "devastating".
Date: July 1st 2008
Publication: The Australian
Author: Matthew Denholm
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TASMANIANS overwhelmingly oppose further state or federal government funding for the Gunns pulp mill, a new poll has found.
Opposition to further handouts was strong in both genders, all age groups and all regions of the state -- with 72 per cent of those in the North and 69 per cent in the...
Date: June 30th 2008
Publication: The Mercury
Author: DAVID KILLICK
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A GetUp-commissioned poll by EMRS of 1000 Tasmanians has found Tasmanians overwhelmingly oppose further State or Federal financial assistance for Gunns’ Pulp Mill. The poll found 75% of Tasmanians oppose further financial assistance, with only 19% in support.
Date: June 30th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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Frustration over fuel prices has given a major boost to a controversial advertising campaign ....
Date: June 25th 2008
Publication: Channel 10 National News at 5
Author: Eddie Meyers
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The Liberals were clearly caught napping on the power of the internet during the previous federal election campaign. The proposed initiative, to be called Liberal Link, also reflects an awareness of the political power of internet activist groups such as GetUp!
Date: June 24th 2008
Publication: The Australian
Author: Malcolm Calless
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SIXTY-ONE per cent of Australians are against the building of Gunns' pulp mill, according to a poll commissioned by community advocacy organisation GetUp.
Date: June 23rd 2008
Publication: The Examiner
Author: Holly Ranson
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AUSTRALIANS remain strongly opposed to construction of a pulp mill in Tasmania as the company responsible, Gunns, struggles to find a backer prepared to finance the controversial project.
A new poll of more than 1000 people by analysts Essential Research found almost two-thirds (61%) of the...
Date: June 22nd 2008
Publication: The Age
Author: Josh Gordon
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A NATIONAL poll has found nearly two thirds of Australians oppose the Gunns pulp mill. The poll, commissioned by civil action group GetUp, surveyed more than 1000 people from across Australia and found 61 per cent opposed the mill.
Date: June 22nd 2008
Publication: Sunday Tasmanian
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A nationwide GetUp-commissioned poll has found Australians overwhelmingly oppose the building of the Gunns pulp mill in Tasmania’s Tamar Valley. The poll found 61% of Australians oppose the building of the mill.
Date: June 22nd 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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GetUp has released a bold new spoof ad revealing the Government's FuelWatch programʼs ability to report on future petrol prices as ʻVery ****ing Expensive!ʼ In less than one day, more than $50,000 has been donated to air it.
Date: June 20th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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The Federal Government's proposed Fuelwatch scheme has copped a humorous serve from non-partisan advocacy group Getup Australia.
Date: June 20th 2008
Publication: Ninemsn.com.au
Author: Stuart Fagg
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In less than 24 hours, over $50,000 has been pledged to air a spoof ad which pokes fun at the government’s FuelWatch scheme.
The ad uses the slogan that future petrol prices will be ‘Very ****ing Expensive!’ – suggesting that FuelWatch will merely state the obvious.
Date: June 20th 2008
Publication: Macquarie National News
Author: Annika Burgess
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You know we're very keen here on video contribution on Q&A - lets take a look at this video advert from the GetUp organisation....
Date: June 19th 2008
Publication: ABC1
Author: Tony Jones
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A SPOOF ad has been released on the Federal Government's FuelWatch program, labelling its ability to report on petrol prices as "very f****** expensive".
Grassroots political movement, GetUp, said the ad cut right through the Government's rhetoric about high petrol prices.
Date: June 19th 2008
Publication: News.com.au
Author: Staff Writers
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Community advocacy organisation Getup looks set to make some waves with an irreverent TV ad.
The parody advertisement targets the Government’s Fuelwatch proposal, and contains repeated bleeped expletives.
Date: June 19th 2008
Publication: CARSGUIDE.NEWS.COM.AU
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Jessica Smith wasn't apolitical, but she says her opposition to the war in Iraq converted her to political activism. Unlike 150,000 other Sydneysiders, she missed the 2000 reconciliation march across the Harbour Bridge - and sensed her absence had failed her Christian ethos.
Date: June 17th 2008
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: David Humphries
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The plush office of investment bank Credit Suisse overlooking Sydney harbour is the last place Gunns executive chairman John Gay expected to be ambushed by greenies.
Date: June 16th 2008
Publication: Australian Financial Review
Author: James Chessell & Jemima Whyte
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I was sitting right here in San Francisco, spending too much time on the Web again, when I stumbled on news that former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, President Bush’s close ally, made the top eight in the Queen of England’s list of 458 Australian birthday honors, on June 9, just...
Date: June 13th 2008
Publication: San Francisco Bay View
Author: Ann Garrison
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GetUp is calling on all Australian MPs to pledge to take only public transport, walk, or ride to work for one day, and is calling on the Federal Transport Minister to commit one-quarter of the federal Building Australia fund to public transport.
Date: June 11th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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Our culture of personal car ownership has existed for the entire post-war era but can it go on forever? Fuel has been a big news story recently. Yes, prices are reaching record highs (they hit US$139 yesterday), but these prices are just a symptom of the crisis that lurks beneath the surface.
Date: June 9th 2008
Publication: Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Kristen Le Mesurier
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ANTI-pulp mill group GetUp is taking its battle against the Gunns project to London's Financial Times newspaper. It said yesterday that thousands of Australians were donating to run an advertisement in the leading international financial newspaper warning financiers against funding the pulp mill...
Date: June 8th 2008
Publication: The Mercury
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