Current Campaign Actions
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
The Dirtiest Deal you've never heard of
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Right now 12 countries, including Australia, are negotiating the biggest international trade deal you've never heard of. The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) will give multinational corporations the power to sue our government for decisions they claim impact their investments in Australia. Sound too scary to be true? It's already happening. Watch the video explaining why Prime Minister Abbott is so eager to keep this one under wraps, then sign the petition and sound the alarm |
Protect the Great Barrier Reef
Join the Campaign
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The Great Barrier Reef is under threat. Join hundreds of thousands of Australians and add your name to the petition for the Great Barrier Reef.
Click here to sign the petition. |
#ReefReels
 | #ReefReels is the best thing to happen to the reef since Finding Nemo! GetUp teamed with Tropfest, the world's biggest short film festival, to find stories that inspire people to protect the Reef. Over 50 Australian filmmakers used their creativity and talent to show off our world-famous World Heritage Area, and why it needs to be saved. Watch the best films here! |
Contact your bank
 | Adani has been exposed for what it is - a ruthless, greedy operator with an atrocious human rights and environmental record. It wants to build one of the biggest coal mines in the world in Queensland - a project that means shipping millions of tonnes of coal through our precious Great Barrier Reef every year. To finance the project, Adani still needs around $10b in funding - and the Big 4 Australian Banks are the most likely to make it happen. Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ, and NAB could be all that stand between Adani and our Great Barrier Reef. Will you ask your bank to rule out the destructive project for good? |
Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Citizen Funded Journalism
 | When in opposition, Shadow Immigration Minister Scott Morrison would cry "boats" as loud and as often as he could. But now the Abbott Government has cast that shadow over their asylum seeker policies. Already more than 4,700 people have donated to fund high quality independent journalism, dedicated to finding out what happens inside our detention centres and stories of the people confined within them, but we need ongoing support to continue the work that's already started. Can you chip in to help put an end to the secrecy? |
Media Acess Denied
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Journalists are being referred to federal police for "unauthorised disclosure of information" relating to immigration policies, and the media has been forbidden access to Government-run facilities, as part of a deliberate attempt by the Immigration Minister to suppress any information about the government's notorious offshore detention centres. If Immigration Minister Peter Dutton truly has nothing to hide, he should immediately grant the media access to Manus Island and Nauru, and not seek to persecute journalists for disclosing unfavourable information. Will you call on the Immigration Minister to uphold press freedom and grant media access to Australia's detention centres? |
Our National Shame
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It's clear the Government is failing to ensure even the most basic of care for asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru. Earlier this year, violence on Manus Island left one man dead and 62 people injured. Meanwhile on Nauru, a report that was never meant to be seen by the public, reveals the dire state of healthcare available to asylum seeker children, babies and pregnant women inside the Nauru detention centre. It is shameful that we are still sending people to these detention centres when we can not guarantee their safety, or their health. Will you join the campaign calling on Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to put an end our nation's shame? |
J'accuse
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A group of concerned organisations and individuals – including legal and health professional, faith leaders and academics – have penned an open letter accusing the Government of wilfully and deliberately pursuing a policy known to cause severe mental and physical health problems.
The open letter, convened by Professor Louise Newman AM, is addressed to the Federal Government and the Opposition, calling on them to abandon the policy of mandatory detention. Will you add your name to the list of people calling for an end to indefinite mandatory detention? |
Climate
We Made History
 | On September 21, tens of thousands of Australians took part in the global movement the media are calling "the largest ever climate march in history". It was a powerful message to world leaders that echoed around the globe, demonstrating that we - the people- are up for confronting the challenge of climate change. Take a look at the video of the day that we made history. |
Australians for Climate Action
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Over 97% of climate scientists say that climate change is occurring and is human induced. The science is now unequivocal and deserves respect from our government. We're asking for stronger, meaningful climate action, which is in the national and global interest. |
Economic Fairness
Bust the Budget
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The Abbott Government promised a fair budget where everyone would "share the burden". But the 2014 Budget has been widely condemned as unfair — disproportionately burdening lower-income families, students, young job-seekers, pensioners, and the sick, and leading us down the path of US-style social insecurity.
Australians take pride in being the nation of the fair go. A place where everyone is given the chance to thrive, not just corporations and the wealthy; where life's misfortunes, whether from illness or job loss, don't lead to permanent or abject poverty. That's why over 100,000 GetUp members are speaking up, banding together in the fight to save Medicare, our social safety net, and affordable higher education. Will you stand up for a fair go for all Australians by joining the fight to bust the Abbott Government's brutal budget? |
Protect the Pension
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Hidden in the depths of the Abbott Government's unfair budget are significant changes to the age pension – cuts that will have dire repercussions for many older Australians.
We're joining forces with YOURLifeChoices to make sure these changes don't weasel their way through the Senate to become law when Parliament goes back next month.
Will you join the campaign to protect the pension? Do it for Nan and Pop! |
Corporate Tax
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Australia's top companies are forgoing billions in tax each year, with nearly a third paying less than 10 cents on the dollar. While Treasurer Hockey has acknowledged the need to do better, he's failed to take real action. We need to turn the Government's words on corporate tax dodging into action. Because when corporations don't pay their fair share, we're the ones who pick up the tab. Tell Treasurer Hockey to make corporate tax dodgers pay their fair share now |
Better Power
Pledge to Switch
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Origin, AGL and EnergyAustralia are playing dirty to attack the renewable energy target. If they get their way, Australia's growing renewable energy industry would be devastated, while they would hold onto their near-monopoly of a dirty, expensive fossil fuel sector. But these companies only exist because of public support. We need to speak up and let them know that if they attack renewables, people won't tolerate it. Will you sign the petition calling out our biggest Energy companies for lobbying against renewables? |
Switch to Better Power
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With Origin, AGL and EnergyAustralia attacking the Renewable Energy Target, it's time for a new consumer-based movement to save Australia's renewable energy future. Without one, we'll be left with a dirty, expensive fossil sector holding back our economy. Members in Victoria can switch their energy company now to save the RET, and save themselves money. Ready to save money for your home and send the strongest of messages to the Origin, EnergyAustralia and AGL that we won't stand for their attack on renewables? Make the switch today |
Data Retention
Citizens, not suspects
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The Federal Government has introduced radical changes to Australia's surveillance and intelligence laws. Of course authorities should be given the powers they need to protect us, but what's being considered goes much further than that. Metadata may seem fairly harmless, but it can reveal a far more detailed picture of you than Mr Brandis would care to admit.
Sign the petition calling on the Federal Government to drop its proposed mandatory data retenion regime |
Marriage Equality
A Bold Proposal
 | In exciting news, crossbench Senator David Leyonhjelm has introduced a Freedom To Marry bill which, if passed, will see an end to Australia's marriage discrimination. But for this legislation to have any shot of passing, Prime Minister Abbott must allow his MPs a free vote, rather than being bound by party line. Will you call on the Liberal party to allow a conscience vote on same-sex marriage? |
It's Time
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Have you seen the marriage equality lovestory? Millions watched it and shared with their friends and family, helping to spread the word worldwide. Now let's make sure Australia puts marriage equality into law. Join the campaign here. |
Coal Seam Gas
Stop CSG in the Great Artesian Basin
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Australia's lifeblood - the Great Artesian Basin - is under threat from Santos' coal seam gas projects. A new report has confirmed Santos' Narrabri CSG project "could be enough to stop bores flowing throughout the basin, which is the sole water source for towns and farms across 22 per cent of Australia." Any risk to this water supply is simply unthinkable and unacceptable. Sign the petition calling on NSW Premier Mike Baird to halt the unbridled expansion of the coal seam gas industry |
Stop fracking in Gloucester
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AGL's coal seam gas project in Gloucester has been shut down following a major environmental breach. Hazardous BTEX chemicals (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes) were found in the water of two of AGL's wells. AGL discovered the chemicals on January 15, but failed to report them until almost two weeks later.
It's simple. We can't trust AGL. Sign the petition to AGL's CEO and ask him to shut down their Gloucester operation immediately |
Don't Risk Coal Seam Gas
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What do Australian farmlands, healthy families and drinking water all have in common? They're all under threat from unregulated coal seam gas mining. GetUp members from NSW and QLD have bravely shared their story of what it's like to live in a community affected by CSG mining Click here to watch the video. |