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No Child in Detention
Campaign won in August 2006!
When the Government tried to introduce legislation that would put children in immigration detention, we set our biggest target ever. With the words 'GetUp! Vote No' still fresh in the skies above Parliament House, the PM dropped the Bill, because it would have been defeated in the Senate! When GetUp first set our biggest target ever of 100,000 signatures, people called it 'pie in the sky'. So, we made a deal: if you could get us that many names by Parliament's scheduled vote, we promised to write it in the sky. On the day of the scheduled Senate vote we hit 100,000 signatures at 9.50 am. At 12 noon we put the message to Senators clear as day in the skies above Parliament House, and less than an hour later the PM admitted his Bill could not pass. GetUp members also took time to thank dissenting MPs and Senators who had the courage to stand up to party politics. The original petition text:
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