Campaigning by GetUp members has been widely recognised in the media. Here's a collection of press clippings.
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"submitted for a competition by online political campaign organisation 'Getup!'."
Date: June 6th 2007
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: N/A
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"PRIME Minister John Howard has been sent up in a new spoof video purporting to be a "sneak peek" at the government's latest environment advertising campaign."
Date: June 6th 2007
Publication: The Daily Telegraph
Author: N/A
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"SHELLEY REYS's father was the first Aboriginal jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. He did it on Gala Supreme in 1973 after a horrible two years in which he had suffered a broken shoulder, two pelvis fractures, a broken cheek bone and an ankle, earning him the nickname Autumn Leaves. At 41 he begged...
Date: June 2nd 2007
Publication: Brisbane Times
Author: N/A
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"THE 17-year life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians can be closed within a generation, Labor and the Coalition have said on the 40th anniversary of the landmark 1967 referendum on Aborigines."
Date: May 28th 2007
Publication: The Age
Author: Annabel Stafford
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"AS Australians mak the 40th anniversary of the landmark 1967 referendum this weekend, GetUp.org.au is presenting the concerns of a new generation of Australians who see the task of Indigenous equality unfinished:they're calling on the Australian Government to close the Indigenous health gap."
Date: May 25th 2007
Author: The GetUp Team
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"That's the conclusion of the latest damning report into Aboriginal health, which says that Aborigines have been placed lower down on waiting lists because of their race."
Date: May 23rd 2007
Publication: The Age
Author: Annabel Stafford
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"A video camera may monitor David Hicks' movements inside his cell at Adelaide's Yatala prison for up to 24 hours a day, a prison officers' union says."
Date: May 21st 2007
Publication: The New Zealand Times
Author: Greg Ansley
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"DAVID Hicks's return to Adelaide yesterday concludes another chapter in the sorry saga of Australia's most famous homegrown terrorist supporter. As Hicks settled into Yatala prison, calls from his cheer squad for his immediate release from jail will not resonate with the broader community."
Date: May 21st 2007
Publication: The Australian
Author: Editorial
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"Guantánamo Bay detainee David Hicks, who pleaded guilty before a US military tribunal to a charge of supporting terrorism, has been flown back home to Australia to serve out the rest of his prison sentence."
Date: May 21st 2007
Publication: The Guardian (UK)
Author: Barbara McMahon
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"FOREIGN Affairs Minister Alexander Downer has urged Australians not to be overawed by the emotion of David Hicks' long-awaited homecoming."
Date: May 21st 2007
Publication: The Herald Sun
Author: Matt Doran
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"There are just a few months until the Federal election, and the Internet has emerged as a new front in political campaigning."
Date: May 21st 2007
Publication: ABC Radio National
Author: Background Briefing
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"Convicted "Australian Taliban" David Hicks arrived here Sunday to complete his nine-month sentence on home soil after spending more than five years in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp."
Date: May 20th 2007
Publication: Brisbane Times
Author: AFP
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"AN influential grassroots political group is launching its first federal election assault this weekend - in the Prime Minister's marginal Sydney seat of Bennelong."
Date: May 20th 2007
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Kerry-Anne Walsh
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"DAVID Hicks should be released from jail immediately, says an activist group that has campaigned to have the convicted terrorism supporter brought home"
Date: May 20th 2007
Publication: The Herald Sun
Author: AAP
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"DAVID Hicks should be released from jail immediately, says an activist group that has campaigned to have the convicted terrorism supporter brought home."
Date: May 20th 2007
Publication: Adelaide Advertiser
Author: AAP
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"The lawyer for former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks says his client is elated to be back in Australia."
Date: May 20th 2007
Publication: ABC Online
Author: Reuters
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"SAYING he is disgusted at the Howard Government's use of taxpayer money to pay for big advertising campaigns, Kevin Rudd has promised to introduce laws to stop political abuse of public money."
Date: May 19th 2007
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Peter Hartcher
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"Now that David Hicks is to come home gagged, it's the Government facing tough questions."
Date: May 17th 2007
Author: The GetUp Team
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"LABOR MPs are urging young people to join the electoral roll, fearful that new laws shutting off the roll the day an election is called could affect hundreds of thousands of eligible voters and influence election results."
Date: May 17th 2007
Publication: The Age
Author: Ben Doherty
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"Lingerie and pollies needn't dominate the billboards"
Date: May 11th 2007
Publication: The Age
Author: Fiona Scott-Norman
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"The campaign Oz in 30 Seconds, launched last week, wants citizens to create television commercials that will tell federal politicians what they really want from them."
Date: May 7th 2007
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Lia Timson
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"But despite all this good news, indigenous Australians experience the same health conditions that exist in the Third World."
Date: May 2nd 2007
Publication: Crickey
Author: Ed Coper
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"The removal of the federal Health Minister's veto over RU486 last February was hailed as a victory for women, and a portent of what could be accomplished if politicians and grassroots activists worked together across party lines."
Date: May 1st 2007
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Leslie Cannold
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"THE Federal Government's 24-hour pregnancy helpline, which starts on Tuesday, will record conversations between callers and counsellors and store the recordings for seven years."
Date: April 26th 2007
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Adele Horin
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"Earlier this month, Labor leader Kevin Rudd enunciated what amounts to a radical break with standing Labor policy. As we will shortly consider in more detail, the changes effectively challenged the right of Australian workers to strike: banning the withdrawal of labour in all but a small number...
Date: April 26th 2007
Publication: Online Opinion
Author: Tristan Ewins
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"ONLY 5 per cent of Australians know about new laws which take effect tomorrow that could stop them voting at the next election."
Date: April 15th 2007
Publication: The Age
Author: Jason Kotusoukis
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"Online activist group Get Up has launched a petition to protest against changes to electoral enrolments."
Date: April 15th 2007
Publication: ABC Online
Author: N/A
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"HUNDREDS of thousands of voters may be turned away from the ballot box on election day because of changes to enrolment laws, Labor said today."
Date: April 14th 2007
Publication: The Australian
Author: Peter Veness
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"Hundreds of thousands of voters may be turned away from the ballot box on election day because of changes to enrolment laws, Labor says."
Date: April 14th 2007
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: AAP
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"SO, THE David Hicks matter is finally resolved. Sighs of relief all round. A bloke who's been locked up without charge overseas now gets to go home. He'll stay in jail for a while because of the dodgy company he kept a few years back, but not for long"
Date: April 7th 2007
Publication: The Canberra Times
Author: Karen Middleton
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"The website GetUp! has increased in market share by 800% within the Lifestyle - Politics category over the past three weeks ending Saturday 8th April making it the most popular local politics website visited by Australian Internet users and the second most popular politics website after...
Date: April 6th 2007
Publication: Hitwise To Go
Author: N/A
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"Remember the last two US presidential elections, particularly 2000, when the Republicans were accused of actively trying to disenfranchise Americans likely to vote against them? Slimy stuff -- good thing it could never happen here."
Date: April 6th 2007
Publication: Crikey
Author: Lilian McCombs
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"Australia will not enforce a US-imposed gag on Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks despite it being a condition of the plea bargain that secured his release, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said"
Date: April 5th 2007
Publication: France 24
Author: AFP
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""While you have indicated the result of Mr Hicks' case is a source of satisfaction for you, its implications are a great loss to the people you serve," GetUp tells Mr Howard."
Date: April 5th 2007
Publication: Asia Media
Author: The Age
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"LAST week I was given a privileged insight into two large lobby groups, what political scientists sometimes call policy communities. I participated in the Politics and Public Policy Review conducted by the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs at the Hyatt Hotel and in the Weekend of Ideas on "A...
Date: April 5th 2007
Publication: The Canberra Times
Author: John Warhurst
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"David Hicks might be coming home but a grassroots lobby group is not letting the government forget the five years he spent in Guantanamo Bay without charge."
Date: April 4th 2007
Publication: Ninemsn
Author: AAP
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"David Hicks is expected back in Australia within two months but will remain incarcerated in Australia until the federal elections are out of the way. After more than five years Guantánamo Bay, held in solitary confinement with very few hours of sunlight, and physically and mentally tortured,...
Date: April 3rd 2007
Publication: Political Affairs Magazine (New York)
Author: The Guardian (Australia)
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"DAVID Hicks' guilty plea came as relief for the Howard Government, which has weathered a growing storm of protest over his treatment by US military authorities."
Date: March 28th 2007
Publication: The Herald Sun
Author: John Ferguson & Mark Dunn
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"The hardest thing in spin is making the judgement about when you have a crisis on your hands. At what point do you or your organisation say, we've got a big problem and we need to communicate in a different way?"
Date: March 28th 2007
Publication: Crickey
Author: Adam Kilgour
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"David Hicks may soon be on his way back home, but the government remains under pressure over concerns the Australian pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge to escape Guantanamo Bay after more than five years in US custody."
Date: March 27th 2007
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: AAP
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"This morning came the news that David Hicks has pleaded guilty. We should not be surprised."
Date: March 27th 2007
Publication: Crickey
Author: Brett Solomon
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" Relations between the US and one of its staunchest allies face a formidable test Monday when Australia’s only Guantánamo Bay prisoner faces an American military commission after more than five years of imprisonment."
Date: March 26th 2007
Publication: The Christian Science Monitor
Author: Nick Squires
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"Confrontation ... a voter at Gladesville Public School argues with Prime Minister John Howard yesterday about the imprisonment of David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay."
Date: March 25th 2007
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Eamonn Duff, Christine Sams & Erin O'Dwyer
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"A GRASSROOTS political movement is carrying the campaign to free David Hicks to the place calculated to hurt John Howard most - his Bennelong electorate."
Date: March 22nd 2007
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Peter Hartcher, Political Editor
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"A protest group will use Sunday's 75th birthday celebrations of the Sydney Harbour Bridge to demand the return of David Hicks to Australia."
Date: March 18th 2007
Publication: Ninemsn & Queanbeyan Age
Author: AAP
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"Meanwhile, a protest group used the day to demand the return of David Hicks to Australia."
Date: March 18th 2007
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: AAP
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"Adelaide-born David Hicks, 31, a Guantanamo Bay detainee since 2001, has been formerly charged on March 2, with providing material support for terrorism. "
Date: March 14th 2007
Publication: Cairn Newspapers
Author: N/A
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David Hicks is an Australian detainee in the USA Military administered concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who has been held in custody without trial for more than five years. A campaign in Australia to 'Bring David Home' is growing in intensity and public support. On Friday March 2nd,...
Date: March 4th 2007
Publication: Bay Area Indymedia
Author: Tavker (Melbourne Indymedia)
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"The decision by the United States military to charge an Australian citizen, David Hicks, with one terrorism-related offense comes as Prime Minister John Howard is under mounting pressure, even from conservatives in his own party, to have Mr. Hicks charged, tried and brought home."
Date: March 3rd 2007
Publication: The New York Times
Author: Raymond Bonner
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"Australian terrorist suspect David Hicks, who has been held at Guantanamo Bay for five years, may face court next month, U.S. prosecutor Col. Morris Davis said."
Date: February 27th 2007
Publication: Miami Herald
Author: Gemme Daley
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