Campaigning by GetUp members has been widely recognised in the media. Here's a collection of press clippings.
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"Sydney-based GetUp!, which runs campaigns on political issues, organized advertisements on television and in newspapers, protested at Parliament House in Canberra and sent a petition to the Australian government with 50,000 signatures calling for Hicks to be released."
Date: February 26th 2007
Publication: Bloomberg
Author: Gemme Daley
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"Churches should use their public signage to promote justice for causes such as David Hicks rather than Bingo"
Date: February 26th 2007
Publication: The Westender
Author: N/A
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Date: February 24th 2007
Publication: Terra, O Estado de S. Paulo & Folha online
Author: EFE
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"ITS simple brand of mouse-click activism has earned it the description of "the Amazon.com of Australian politics" but the founders of online political movement GetUp! might just take that as a compliment."
Date: February 24th 2007
Publication: The Age
Author: Larissa Dubecky
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"Every Bennelong home will receive a hand-delivered postcard..."
Date: February 20th 2007
Publication: The Australian
Author: Matthew Schultz
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"KEVIN Rudd insists he's not stalking John Howard."
Date: February 20th 2007
Publication: The Australian
Author: Matt Price
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"Voters in Bennelong can expect to be besieged between now and the election..."
Date: February 19th 2007
Publication: The Australian
Author: Maria Hawthorne & Liza Kappelle
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Date: February 18th 2007
Publication: ABC News
Author: Craig McMurtrie
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"Electronic activism is stirring a lot of citizens into life, whatever leaders think."
Date: February 15th 2007
Publication: The Economist
Author: N/A
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"Sydney-based GetUp!, which runs campaigns on political issues, has protested at Parliament House in Canberra, run a television and newspaper campaign and sent a petition to the Australian government with 50,000 signatures calling for Hicks to be released."
Date: February 15th 2007
Publication: Bloomber
Author: Gemme Daley
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"Bring David Hicks Home has become a mainstream slogan, screamed out in loud Gitmo orange."
Date: February 12th 2007
Publication: Online Opinion
Author: Natasha Cica
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"I DIDN'T realise David Hicks, the alleged al-Qaida member, was in fact just a nine-year-old boy with freckles."
Date: February 7th 2007
Publication: The Herald Sun
Author: Andrew Bolt
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"The advocacy group behind a television campaign to bring David Hicks home from Guantanamo Bay will remove its Labor connections to avoid any claims of bias."
Date: February 7th 2007
Publication: The Age
Author: AAP
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"THE group funding the national television campaign to "bring David Hicks home" will purge its advisory board of Labor connections to deflect claims that it is politically biased."
Date: February 7th 2007
Publication: The Australian
Author: Cameron Stewart
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"Major Michael Mori is truly a modern hero [...]"
Date: February 6th 2007
Publication: Metronews
Author: N/A
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Coverage of 'This is my son' television campaign.
Date: February 5th 2007
Publication: ABC News
Author: Craig McMurtrie
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"COALITION backbenchers will turn up the heat on the Government tomorrow to ensure David Hicks receives a fair and speedy trial from his American captors."
Date: February 5th 2007
Publication: The Herald Sun
Author: Sandra O'Mailley
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"The US military prosecutor has announced charges against Hicks, though they can't be laid till approved by a Convening Authority"
Date: February 5th 2007
Publication: ABC Radio PM
Author: Alexandra Kirk
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"David Hicks has spent five years in Guantanamo Bay waiting to be tried or released. Now US military authorities say he will be charged with providing material support for terrorism and attempted murder."
Date: February 5th 2007
Publication: ABC Lateline
Author: Michael Edwards
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"ADELAIDE-BORN David Hicks faces life in jail after US authorities laid two terrorism-related charges against him."
Date: February 4th 2007
Publication: Adelaide Advertiser
Author: Kim Wheatley & Stefanie Balogh
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"With more members than any Australian political party, internet group GetUp offers a convenient form of political lobbying"
Date: January 31st 2007
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Rebecca Martin
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"A LARGE billboard demanding the return to Australia of terror suspect David Hicks hit Adelaide yesterday."
Date: January 16th 2007
Publication: Adelaide Advertiser
Author: Kara Phillips
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"The tide has turned on David Hicks. Most Australians say it's time he left this tiny cell in Guantanamo Bay, writes David Marr."
Date: January 13th 2007
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: David Marr
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"A Newspoll survey commissioned by the activist group 'GetUp' has found 70 per cent of Australians want Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks returned to Australia, even if he cannot be tried here."
Date: December 14th 2006
Publication: ABC Online
Author: N/A
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"...Mr Rudd's pledge on David Hicks came as a Newspoll of 1200 people conducted this week found 71 per cent of Australians including two-thirds of Liberal voters agreed with the call to bring him home."
Date: December 14th 2006
Publication: The Age
Author: Michelle Grattan & Michael Gordon
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"CALLS for David Hicks to be brought to Australia to face trial have the backing of almost three-quarters of the population, including two-thirds of Coalition voters."
Date: December 14th 2006
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Jonathan Pearlman
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"TERROR suspect David Hicks is expected to be "an early cab off the rank" when US military trials begin at Guantanamo Bay early next year, Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said yesterday [...] GetUp has raised more than $150,000 to be used to protest against Hicks's detention."
Date: December 14th 2006
Publication: The Australian
Author: Verity Edwards & Patricia Karvelas
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"A NEWSPOLL has found 67 per cent of Liberal voters want Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks brought back to Australia, regardless of whether he would face charges once home."
Date: December 14th 2006
Publication: News Online
Author: AAP
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"Think climate change is just a distant threat of melting ice caps and hotter summers? Well, think again global warming has arrived. Lucie Morris reports on this disaster and what we can do to stop it."
Date: December 1st 2006
Publication: Marie Claire
Author: Lucie Morris
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"PM John Howard and other ministers could soon be faced with billboards near their homes urging them to bring accused terrorist David Hicks home."
Date: November 17th 2006
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald & Others
Author: AAP
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"Tens of thousands of Australians marched through capital cities across the country yesterday, calling for action on climate change...."
Date: November 5th 2006
Publication: The Age
Author: AAP
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"Cate Blanchett strode out yesterday to join a protest calling for more action on climate change...."
Date: November 5th 2006
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Catharine Munro
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"Yesterday, tens of thousands of Australians rallied in cities around the nation for the Walk Against Warming...."
Date: November 5th 2006
Publication: The Daily Telegraph
Author: AAP
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"These are the facts. Australia is in the grip of a sustained and debilitating drought - the worst in 100 years..."
Date: November 5th 2006
Publication: The Daily Telegraph
Author: N/A
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"...He released yesterday the results of a petition signed by about 1000 MEAA members who opposed the Federal Government's plans to abolish the cross-media ownership rules.The petition can be viewed at: getup.org.au/campaign/realmediachoices...".
Date: October 11th 2006
Publication: The Age
Author: Michelle Grattan, Matthew Ricketson & Helen Westerman
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"More than 50 percent of Australians do not believe their country's sole inmate at Guantanamo Bay would receive a fair trial at the U.S. military base, according to survey results released by a lobby group Friday".
Date: September 15th 2006
Publication: Malaysia Star & Others
Author: AP
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"More than 90 per cent of Australians believe Guantanomo Bay detainee David Hicks deserves a fair trial without delay, a Newspoll survey has show. And they believe he won't get that fair trial in the US-run detention centre in Cuba, the survey revealed".
Date: September 15th 2006
Publication: The Age & Others
Author: AAP
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"A group of people in the Bega Valley concerned about the continued incarceration without trial of Australian David Hicks in Guantanamo Bay have clubbed together to draw the issue to public attention"
Date: September 8th 2006
Publication: Bega District News
Author: N/A
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Although the number of registered voters is lowest among 18 to 25-year-olds, online communities can be seen as changing the nature of political participation by encouraging young people to involve themselves with online campaigns or, in some cases, force politicians into action".
Date: August 26th 2006
Publication: The Age
Author: Dewi Cooke
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"Critics are concerned about rushed changes to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act".
Date: August 25th 2006
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Stephanie Peatling
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"Brett Solomon, from the national lobby group Get Up, says people have become more vocal in their opposition to Hicks's detention, and some have recently joined the campaign"
Date: August 24th 2006
Publication: ABC News
Author: N/A
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"Speaking at a candle-lit vigil for Hicks in Adelaide, American Major Michael Mori said it would take that long to mount a legal challenge to the new system if the Australian government did not act first to bring him home."
Date: August 24th 2006
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald & Others
Author: AAP
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"WERE you one of the 100,000-plus signatories to online activist site GetUp's recent "No Child in Detention" petition, culminating in "VOTE NO" sky graffiti over Parliament House while the Prime Minister withdrew one of the harshest anti-refugee measures of our times?"
Date: August 23rd 2006
Publication: The Age
Author: Natasha Cica
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"The Senate's rush to pass the amendments to the Land Rights Act has rung alarms beyond the Aboriginal population. The Sydney-based public interest group GETUP! gathered 25,000 signatures over just one weekend for a Web-based campaign urging the Senate to postpone the legislation."
Date: August 21st 2006
Publication: ABC TV, The 7:30 Report
Author: Murray McLaughlin
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"When asked how those present could help, he suggested joining the political activist group GetUp! that supports the repatriation of the Adelaide-born Hicks from Guantanamo Bay to Australia immediately."
Date: August 16th 2006
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Edmund Tadros
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"Today in Canberra senators were presented with a petition with 15,000 names supporting the private member's bill."
Date: August 16th 2006
Publication: ABC Lateline
Author: Tom Iggulden
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"When asked how those present could help, he suggested joining the political activist group GetUp! that supports the repatriation of the Adelaide-born Hicks from Guantanamo Bay to Australia immediately."
Date: August 14th 2006
Publication: ABC Lateline
Author: Nada Gilmore
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"As the Senate prepares to debate the new asylum laws, the campaigning organisation GetUp has paid pilot Rob Vance to write "Vote No to Asylum Bill" in the skies above Parliament House."
Date: August 14th 2006
Publication: ABC Radio, The world today
Author: Alexandria Kirk
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"On Wednesday, Reproductive Choice Australia and political activist group GetUp will present a cross-party group of female senators with a petition about the issue. Signed by 15,000 people, the petition calls for an end to deceptive advertising by pregnancy counselling services."
Date: August 13th 2006
Publication: The Sun Herald
Author: Kerry-Anne Walsh
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"Business leaders, a former prime minister, academics, lawyers, scientists and even a footballer have urged the Senate to reject the Government's tough new border protection laws."
Date: August 12th 2006
Publication: The Age
Author: MIchael Gordodn, Andra Jackson
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