Campaigning by GetUp members has been widely recognised in the media. Here's a collection of press clippings.
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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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It has attracted more than 20,000 signatures, so the Herald's campaign for a change to allow recall elections in NSW has captured attention - and that's a good thing.
Date: January 21st 2010
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Simon Sheikh
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Lobby group GetUp! has also run ongoing campaigns against the internet filter, including its Censordyne commercial, which drew media attention. The group's website encourages people to protest the filter by contacting Stephen Conroy directly...
Date: January 20th 2010
Publication: The Courier Mail
Author: Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
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Get Up's national director Simon Sheikh said rich countries like Australia had to take strong action on climate change at home to get the Copenhagen process back on track.
Date: December 19th 2009
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Cathy Alexander
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A recent national phone poll that was commissioned by GetUP! found only 4 per cent of Australians want the Government to be responsible for protecting children online.
Date: December 18th 2009
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Nina Funnell
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Former High Court judge Michael Kirby has criticised the Federal Government's internet censorship agenda, saying it could stop the "Berlin Walls of the future" from being knocked down...
Date: December 17th 2009
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Asher Moses
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Oliver MacColl, acting national director of GetUp!, an internet users' lobby group, said the planned legislation "hands control of the internet to the moral minority".
Date: December 16th 2009
Publication: Telegraph.co.uk
Author: Paul Chapman
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Activist group GetUp argues the filter will hand control of the internet "to the moral minority".
Date: December 16th 2009
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Julian Drape
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Advocacy organisation GetUp's petition against the proposal has garnered more than 120,000 signatures...
Date: December 16th 2009
Publication: The Australian
Author: Mitchell Bingemann
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Oliver MacColl, the acting national director of lobby group GetUp!, says Senator Conroy's firewall plan hands control of the internet to "the moral minority".
Date: December 15th 2009
Publication: ABC Online
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A young woman from the Solomon Islands says Australians should know if climate change goes on unchecked and her homeland goes under her people will be knocking at our doors and demanding to be let in...
Date: December 13th 2009
Publication: Sky News
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The national director of the political lobby group GetUp!, Simon Sheikh, said he supported the idea behind the campaign...
Date: December 12th 2009
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Sean Nicholls and Brian Robins
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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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The cost of greening up Australia would cost less than 1 per cent of the economy, lobby group Get Up says.
Date: December 10th 2009
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: AAP
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Just hours ago printers started running wild in Copenhagen with the leaking of tightly held negotiating text that rich countries have been writing. In summary: it’s bad news for the climate – but the good news is it’s far from locked in.
Date: December 9th 2009
Publication: The Punch
Author: Simon Sheikh
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It’s a big year for the Liberal Party of Australia. One hundred years ago, the Protectionist and Free Trade parties combined to offer voters an alternative to the Labor party...
Date: December 8th 2009
Publication: The Punch
Author: Simon Sheikh
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The Turnbull criticisms came as an Essential Research poll done for the activist group GetUp since Mr Abbott's elevation found almost two-thirds thought he should support action on climate change...
Date: December 8th 2009
Publication: The Age
Author: Michelle Grattan
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When Julia Gillard faced the media outside Federal Parliament in Canberra on Wednesday she looked shell-shocked...
Date: December 7th 2009
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Paul Sheehan
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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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Political action group GetUp! yesterday welcomed the move, saying it was "only right" that voluntary actions would lower total emissions, instead of resulting in cheaper emissions permits for polluters...
Date: November 25th 2009
Publication: The Australian
Author: Nicola Berkovic
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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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Sam Mclean, a senior campaigner for the political activist group GetUp, leans on the tabletop football game in the group's inner Sydney office and motions towards an election poster of John Howard...
Date: November 23rd 2009
Publication: Television New Zealand
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GetUp!, which boasts 331,542 members, argues that Australians are engaging through new technologies in the political process on a scale never seen before...
Date: November 22nd 2009
Publication: The Age
Author: Carmal Egan
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Grass roots lobby group GetUp! hailed the plan, saying online tools were "fuelling a re-engagement" with the democratic process....
Date: November 18th 2009
Publication: iTWire
Author: James Riley
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Over 27,000 GetUp members have signed a petition calling for an end to corporate donations – they know there is a problem that must be fixed...
Date: November 18th 2009
Publication: The Punch
Author: Simon Sheikh
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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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On Monday, an uncanny Kevin Rudd double showed up at Parliament House in Canberra to lend the prime minister a hand on a hot political issue - climate change...
Date: November 16th 2009
Publication: Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Susannah Dunkerley
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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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The poll, prepared for the social activist group Getup! by Auspoll, shows more than half of Australians surveyed think there should be a cap on donations from individuals to political parties...
Date: November 12th 2009
Publication: The Sydney Morning
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Lobby group GetUp! has stepped up its attack on the coal industry, which it says is running a scare campaign on emissions trading...
Date: November 12th 2009
Publication: The Age
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The federal government should follow NSW's lead and use information it obtains from people to automatically enrol them to vote, a political lobby group says...
Date: November 11th 2009
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Nick Ralston and Stephanie Gardiner
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The campaign group GetUp says that its doorknocking of 650 houses in four federal electorates has found people accept renewables as part of their future...
Date: October 25th 2009
Publication: The Daily Telegraph
Author: Malcolm Farr
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Who writes the speeches in the Forestry Department? There are some absolute gems... GetUp!, claimed there were some striking similarities between what Burke said and Gunns promotional material.
Date: October 22nd 2009
Publication: The Age
Author: Greenlines
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More than 40,000 made a written submission to the Brennan committee...The fact that organisations like Amnesty and GetUp! encouraged people to get involved does not compromise the strength of the reaction.
Date: October 21st 2009
Publication: Sydney Morning Herald
Author: George Williams
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Two weeks ago GetUp ran a full page ad in The Australian declaring its petition numbers, and has a series of TV and internet 'Censordyne' advertisments.
Date: October 20th 2009
Publication: iTWire
Author: James Riley
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Community action group Get Up will screen a series of television advertisements in southern Queensland about the benefits of the emissions trading scheme (ETS).
Get Up last week launched a series of ads in the north in response to an Australian Coal Association campaign which warned of the...
Date: October 19th 2009
Publication: ABC Southern Queensland
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A community lobby group has hit back at the Australian Coal Association's advertising campaign, which claims the emissions trading scheme (ETS) will cost jobs, with one of its own.
Get Up has raised $140,000 in online donations for ads of its own which say renewable energy will actually create...
Date: October 16th 2009
Publication: ABC Tropical Queensland
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WHEN Attorney-General Robert McClelland announced a national consultation on human rights earlier this year, he expressed his hope that "as many people as possible will share their views on human rights". He probably didn't have this kind of scale in mind. More than 35,000 Australians answered...
Date: October 14th 2009
Publication: The Australian
Author: Ed Coper
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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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Now, take dozens of well-known musicians, have them rework a classic song and donate the proceeds to charity. With that much star power you can't possibly go wrong - or can you?...Ed Coper from activist group GetUp!...says these songs can make money and raise funds but perhaps more importantly...
Date: October 2nd 2009
Publication: ABC Radio Australia
Author: Timothy McDonald
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When The Hopetoun Hotel unexpectedly shut down on Monday night, online Facebook group Save The Hopetoun Hotel grew to more than 8000 within two days...Censordyne, a recent GetUp campaign against internet censorship, involved TV advertisements funded by online supporters.Within two days of...
Date: October 1st 2009
Publication: the Big Chair - Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Lin Ma
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DEFIANT Opposition MPs allowed the Government yesterday to remove ''a blot on our statute book'' billing refugees for their detention.
Date: September 9th 2009
Publication: Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Yuko Narushima
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The Liberal Senator Judith Troeth has crossed the floor to support the Government's bill to stop charging fees to people held in detention centres.
Date: September 8th 2009
Publication: ABC - PM
Author: Mark Colvin
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The Federal Government's internet censorship trials have been repeatedly delayed over the past nine months, leading to claims from the Opposition that the Government is deliberately withholding the results to avoid embarrassment...
The online activist group GetUp has been running a grassroots...
Date: September 2nd 2009
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Asher Moses
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Cafe owners are set to grind out a position on the environment during the mother of all conversations...Simon Sheikh, national director of the community advocacy group GetUp and keynote speaker at the Mother Of All Cafes, has a lot to say about the power of simple conversation; at the Botanic...
Date: August 19th 2009
Publication: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Dana Nekich
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The Tasmanian Council of Social Services will today launch "Our Island, Our Voices", an internet lobbying campaign to give direct access to politicians...
The campaign is modelled on online activist movement GetUp, which is active in the pulp mill debate and the fight against internet censorship.
Date: August 10th 2009
Publication: The Mercury
Author: Michael Stedman
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“Democracy is not cheap.” That’s what the former NSW President of the Australian Hotels Association John Thorpe had to say about our political system. He was of course referring to the fact that his industry, in the nine years to 2007, had donated a jaw dropping $3.5 million to the NSW...
Date: August 5th 2009
Publication: The Punch
Author: Simon Sheikh
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