Today, GetUp members responded in force to the Coalition’s woeful climate policy,
turning up the heat on Tony Abbott in his own backyard. Thanks to the donations of
GetUp members mobile billboards will circle Parliament House and criss-cross Tony
Abbott’s electorate today with a...
Date: February 4th 2010
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Today Tasmanian and media legend, Peter Cundall, is launching a TV ad campaign from non-partisan group, Our Common Ground. GetUp National Director, Simon Sheikh, said that GetUp is proud to lend its support to this campaign, helping to ensure that it reaches every Tasmanian.
Date: January 27th 2010
Author: The GetUp Team
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News that Gunns and Forestry Tasmania are working towards Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for the Tasmanian forestry industry, as well as statements by Premier Bartlett supporting the change, represent a victory for GetUp members campaigning against the proposed mill.
Date: January 27th 2010
Author: The GetUp Team
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Today US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a world free of internet censorship.
Date: January 22nd 2010
Author: The GetUp Team
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Tony Abbott’s wild claims about the cost of draft Copenhagen agreement text to the Australian economy will be rebuffed by GetUp members today...
Date: December 10th 2009
Author: The GetUp Team
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Federal Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, is out of step with community attitudes on some of the biggest
issues concerning ordinary Australians, a new national poll commissioned by independent political
group GetUp has found.
Date: December 7th 2009
Author: The GetUp Team
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GetUp!’s campaign to ensure consumers’ efforts to reduce carbon emissions do not end up enabling industry to pollute more has today secured a significant change to Government climate policy...
Date: November 24th 2009
Author: The GetUp Team
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GetUp! National Director Simon Sheikh also said the Opposition’s policy would further damage the country’s international reputation for humane treatment of refugees...
Date: November 18th 2009
Author: The GetUp Team
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The vast majority of Australians – 86% - want a limit on the amount of money that political parties can spend on federal election campaigns, according to new poll results released by GetUp...
Date: November 12th 2009
Author: The GetUp Team
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Australian’s largest independent organisation has taken aim at one of the country’s largest polluting industries and its attempt to secure greater compensation under an emissions trading scheme, with a new TV advertisement targeting the Australian Coal Association (ACA).
Date: October 12th 2009
Author: The GetUp team
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Australian advocacy group, GetUp is today launching a new campaign targeting potential international financiers of Gunns Ltd’s controversial pulp mill in Tasmania.
GetUp members are donating to fund a print ad in the European Financial Times, naming the major banks that have not ruled out...
Date: April 27th 2009
Author: The GetUp team
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The Federal Government must seize control of the Murray Darling from the states to help protect the river system for future generations, Australian advocacy group, GetUp said today. The group’s call comes as the Murray River recorded its lowest water inflow level in three months, fuelling fears...
Date: April 8th 2009
Author: The GetUp team
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Federal MPs may have some unexcpected visitors today, as Australia parents play an April Fools day joke on the Government.
Date: April 1st 2009
Author: The GetUp team
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A group of Australian mums, dads and their kids will today meet with Family Affairs Minister Jenny
Macklin to present a 43,000 strong petition by community advocacy organisation GetUp! urging
the Federal Government to include a government-funded paid parental leave scheme in this
May’s...
Date: March 20th 2009
Author: GetUp
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Press Conference today at Sydney University - To mark the beginning of a new academic year, university students will today push for better student services on campuses, as the Senate debates a Student Amenities Fee to reverse the Howard Government’s Voluntary Student Unionism.
Date: March 2nd 2009
Author: GetUp
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GETUP CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT AUDIT OF RESULTS: Seven weeks late, the Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has issued a release at 5.45pm today, announcing six Internet Service Providers that will take part in his ISP Filter Live Trial.
Date: February 11th 2009
Author: The GetUp team
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DOORSTOP: 11AM today, back of NSW Parliament House.
The normal TV advertisements of beers and cars during the cricket will be overshadowed today by a controversial television ad on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s back down on climate change.
Date: December 28th 2008
Author: Sam Mclean - GetUp
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On the eve of another scorching hot summer, GetUp! today launches a controversial television attack ad on the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his back down on climate change.
The 30-second ad which GetUp! hopes to air on free-to-air television over the summer features both Former Prime John...
Date: December 18th 2008
Author: Sam Mclean - GetUp
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Online Advocacy group, GetUp! has said today that the federal Government?s emission reduction target of 5% will condemn our Great Barrier Reef, Murray Darling Basin and the Kakadu region to destrucenough to save these icons.
Date: December 15th 2008
Author: The GetUp team
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The Federal Government needs to re-think its plans to censor the internet and consider the impact it will have on thousands of Australian households and businesses.
Date: December 4th 2008
Author: The GetUp team
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