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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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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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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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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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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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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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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After announcing that ‘Getup is… aiming their advertisements at the wrong person’ to oppose the Gunns pulp mill, new Premier David Bartlett will hear exactly what he can do to oppose the mill in a prominent full-page ad tomorrow.
Date: June 4th 2008
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GetUp is launching a suite of full-page newspaper ads - in The Financial Review to definitively warn off any potential pulp mill financiers, and in Tasmanian newspapers to urge the new Premier to distance himself from the old.
Date: May 30th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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GetUp congratulates the 111 countries who united behind a well-built draft treaty on Cluster Bombs in Dublin today. They were joined by the 35,000 Australians who signed a petition this week calling on the Prime Minister to take play an active role in creating a treaty without exceptions,...
Date: May 29th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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GetUp Press Conference, Canberra
Brett Solomon with Cyclists and Mobile Billboards
10.30am, Tuesday May 27
Federation Mall (top of Parliament House lawn)
Canberra - GetUp today launches a three-panel mobile billboard in Canberra urging Kevin Rudd to take a long-term approach to...
Date: May 26th 2008
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GetUp is urging David Bartlett, the likely new Tasmanian Premier, to distance himself from the unprecedentedly unpopular Paul Lennon by abandoning his controversial pulp mill.
Date: May 26th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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GetUp gatherings will take place across the country to commemorate ‘Sorry Day’ and the start of Reconciliation Week. Schools, workplaces, radio stations and homes are encouraged to celebrate this new era of reconciliation by listening to the latest version of Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody’s...
Date: May 26th 2008
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GetUp has welcomed reports that the ANZ bank has decided not to finance the controversial Gunns pulp mill in Tasmania’s Tamar Valley. Other potential financiers are being advised to learn from ANZ’s decision and decline Gunns finance for the project.
Date: May 22nd 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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GetUp is calling on individual Australians to make use of the tax cuts given to them in tonight’s Budget by donating them to the fight against climate change.
Date: May 13th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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Tomorrow night, over 2,000 Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians will meet simultaneously in over 350 ‘Reconciliation GetTogethers’ around the nation.
Date: April 28th 2008
Author: The GetUp Team
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