Paul Oosting has been the National Director of GetUp since 2015. He led GetUp’s successful 2016 election campaign which focused on multiple areas such as stopping funding cuts to local hospitals, holding corporate tax dodgers to account and keeping climate action at the top of the agenda. In 2017, Paul ranked in the top 10 of the Australian Financial Review’s Power Index of the most covertly powerful people in 2017. Before joining GetUp, Paul led the successful campaign to stop Gunns’ proposed pulp mill in Tasmania. The campaign resulted in the protection of over 160,000 hectares of Tasmania’s ancient forests.

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Kelsey Cooke is GetUp’s Impact Director, coordinating campaign activity across our Climate Justice, Economic Fairness, Human Rights and Rapid Response teams.

Since joining GetUp in 2010, Kelsey has developed an intimate working knowledge of our campaigns and membership. A seasoned campaigner, she has worked on some of our biggest initiatives including leading our federal 2016 election campaign effort. Kelsey regularly speaks to large public events and the media.

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Natalie O’Brien is GetUp’s Chief of Staff. As GetUp’s former Economic Fairness Director she is well-versed in cyberbullying the federal treasurer and begging people on Facebook to care about tax reform. Sick of an economic media landscape dominated by male spokes, Nat would like to see more fierce women speaking out about economic justice.

Mark Connelly is a Campaigns Director at GetUp, with more than a decade of political campaigning experience in Australia and the United States. Mark led prominent campaigns, including GetUp’s fightback against the Abbott Government’s 2014 austerity Budget.

In the US, Mark was Director of Online Campaigns for MoveOn.org, Strategy Director at Purpose, leading campaigns on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and held a national position coordinating lawyers in the 2004 Kerry-Edwards U.S. presidential campaign.

Mark practiced corporate law for 5 years before turning to politics. He has a law degree from NYU Law and a Master of Public Policy from Sydney University.

Miriam Lyons is Climate Justice Co-Director at GetUp! A renewable energy expert, Miriam is also an Australian policy analyst, writer and commentator, and the co-author of Governomics. Miriam is on the board of Centre for Australian Progress, a think tank she co-founded and led from 2007. Earlier roles include Policy Editor for NewMatilda.com, researching freedom of speech in East Timor, and organising ideas festivals.

Emily Mulligan is a Campaign Director with GetUp. She has a decade’s experience in campaigning from lobbying for better policy at global climate conferences to media exposure for women’s rights programs in Uganda. Most recently Emily has worked on Australia focused campaigns from the Murray Darling to Marriage Equality.

Django is a Campaigns Director at GetUp, leading campaigns for a fairer economy and to reduce the influence of corporations in politics. Django has worked in Australian politics since 2010, working in Tasmania, New South Wales, and federal Parliament. He’s now leading on GetUp’s efforts to turn growing economic inequality into a top-tier election issue.

Shen Narayanasamy is a human rights expert and former lawyer who has worked in Australia and across the Asia-Pacific on issues of economic justice and land rights. She leads the No Business in Abuse campaign which targets corporate involvement in mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and #LetThemStay which aims to prevent the deportation of hundreds of asylum seekers to Nauru. Shen has travelled extensively with Oxfam to conflict zones such as Sri Lanka as well as with Tanzania’s Lawyers Environmental Action Team involved assisting communities who were in confrontation with authorities.

Matthew Phillips is the Co-Director of the Human Rights Campaign at GetUp. Coming from a background in humanitarian response and refugee protection, he manages the No Business in Abuse campaign which targets corporate involvement in mandatory detention of asylum seekers. With Oxfam, he worked with refugees and IDP camps in South Sudan, and with communities across Southern Africa on issues of water, sanitation and hygiene, and extractive industries governance.

Ben Raue is a data analyst specialising in analysing Australian elections. He has run the Tally Room website since 2008, where he publishes guides to every state and federal election. Ben has worked at GetUp since 2013 where he analyses GetUp’s one-million strong membership database.

Sam is one of GetUp’s environmental justice campaigns directors. He has been leading GetUp’s campaign to fight Adani’s horrendous coal mine since 2013. He wants to keep our climate safe, our Reef healthy and the influence of fossil fuels out of our Government.