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Wednesday, 1 September 2010
This week, we have a unique opportunity to get bipartisan support for political donations reform. We have a TV ad ready to go. Can you help us tell our politicians that we want to end the grubby practice of corporate influence? Click here to check out the ad and chip in.
GetUp and governance experts from around Australia have launched a blueprint to navigate democratic reform – as key independents negotiate with the major parties for systemic political change. To read the report, click here.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Our democracy should not be for sale.
GetUp and governance experts from around Australia have today launched a blueprint to navigate democratic reform – as key independents negotiate with the major parties for systemic political change. To read the report, click here.
It's time to restore faith in our political system, click here to tell the government to get corporate and third-party influence out of politics and end all large scale political donations.
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Monday, 30 August 2010
GetUp and governance experts from around Australia have today launched a blueprint to navigate democratic reform – as key independents negotiate with the major parties for systemic political change. To see the report, visit: http://bit.ly/d2Xayv
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Saturday, 21 August 2010
This election almost 1 in 5 Australians walked away from the major parties and voted for minor parties and independents.
Now it seems that independent and Green MPs will hold the balance of power in the Parliament, and determine who forms government.
So who are these independents and what do they stand for?
Find out by joining us online on Wednesday at 12.15 at the National Press Club - where you'll get to hear live and direct from all the Independents together.
http://bit.ly/bc1NhD
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Undecided voters in marginal seats will decide the outcome of this election.
Can you chip in to make sure our Issue Scorecard is in the newspapers in marginal seats this Friday and that it's the last thing voters see before walking into the polling place? We have newspaper spots lined up and GetUp members ready to hand out Scorecards on Election Day, click here to help out.
Earlier this month, the High Court ruled in favour of two courageous GetUp members who stood against unfair Howard-era electoral law.
As a result of this landmark constitutional case, they and 100,000 other Australians who wouldn't have otherwise had the chance, will be able to vote at this election. To read more about the case from Phil Lynch, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Law Resource Centre, click here.
