Campaigning by GetUp members has been widely recognised in the media. Here's a collection of press clippings.
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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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POLITICAL spending has become an unsustainable arms race that must end, says Special Minister of State Joe Ludwig in a strong indication that the Government is looking at capping campaign warchests...
Lobby group GetUp! yesterday calling for changes to the way donations were made to political...
Date: August 5th 2009
Publication: The Australian
Author: Nicola Berkovic
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Alternatives to political party membership are prospering in Australia. The multi-issue activist group GetUp! boasts more than 300,000 members...
Date: July 31st 2009
Publication: The Australian
Author: Andrew Norton
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Tony Burke said in a recent statement that the pulp mill would create some 8,000 direct and indirect jobs and another 1,500 during operation... But the lobby group, GetUp, says the source Mr Burke quoted is more than five years old and has since been massively discredited.
Date: July 27th 2009
Publication: ABC News
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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has shrugged off his "Internet Villain of the Year" award for upsetting the internet industry and hampering its development, calling it misguided. The 11th annual Internet Industry Awards ceremony, held in London this week and hosted by the Internet Service...
Date: July 14th 2009
Publication: Nine News
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A QANTAS executive with close links to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has dismissed suggestions that he personally barred an anti-internet censorship advertisement from airing on flights to Canberra. The commercial, devised by lobby group GetUp, is part of a campaign dubbed Censordyne, a parody on the...
Date: July 14th 2009
Publication: The Australian IT
Author: Fran Foo
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Qantas has delivered a heavy blow to an anti-censorship campaign, refusing to screen a parody ad on its flights. Online activist group GetUp has been campaigning the Federal Government's propsed ISP filtering scheme, but has suffered a serious setback in its latest effort, with Qantas deeming the...
Date: July 14th 2009
Publication: LiveNews
Author: Macquarie National News
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Qantas has put the kybosh on online activist group GetUp's latest anti-censorship campaign, refusing to run the "Censordyne" ad on its flights. Simon Sheikh, chief executive of GetUp, said the group had planned to run the parody ad on all Qantas domestic flights into Canberra next month to ensure...
Date: July 14th 2009
Publication: SMH
Author: Asher Moses
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QANTAS has decided against running an in-flight advertisement from political activist group GetUp slamming the federal government's internet censorship plan.
Date: July 14th 2009
Publication: The Australian IT
Author: Fran Foo
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Social activists GetUp!, with support from groups like Civil Liberties Australia and Save the Children, has rolled out a satirical commercial lampooning the filter plan which it aims to play on commercial flights to Canberra when parliament resumes.
Date: July 9th 2009
Publication: ninemsn
Author: Jack Hawke
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Online activist group GetUp, which has already run ads slamming the internet filtering policy, today launched a new campaign - Censordyne - a parody ad playing on the Sensodyne brand of toothpaste.
Date: July 9th 2009
Publication: The Age
Author: Asher Moses
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Yesterday Opposition immigration spokeswoman Sharman Stone delivered the Coalition’s case on why they opposed the bill to abolish detention debt...GetUp have a delegation doing the rounds in Canberra today, including Masoud Shams (who has a $262,000 bill to his name), Kasian Wililo’s wife...
Date: June 26th 2009
Publication: Crikey
Author: Sophie Black
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A much-criticised feature of Australia's immigration detention is set to be erased by the Rudd Labor government and a handful of conservative M-Ps .
Parliament is in the process of passing laws to abolish the practice of charging asylum seekers for their detention, and also moving to make...
Date: June 25th 2009
Publication: ABC - Radio Australia
Author: Linda Mottram
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Lismore business woman Deborah Ray has the evening free this coming Thursday...GetUp! is promoting its June 11 get-togethers as a chance for people to discuss issues that could be advanced though an Australian bill of human rights.
Date: June 5th 2009
Publication: The Northern Star
Author: Hannah Ross
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Unwired has become the ninth internet service provider to join the federal Government's controversial internet filtering trials as Young Labor rebels against the plans to censor the world wide web.
Date: June 2nd 2009
Publication: Australian IT
Author: Mitchell Bingemann
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TIMBER workers turned the tables on conservationists yesterday, protesting outside the ANZ Bank.
Date: May 20th 2009
Publication: The Mercury
Author: NICK CLARK
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It has been four-and-a-half years since Tasmania’s then-premier Paul Lennon announced plans for a pulp mill in the state's north; and after years of controversy and legal battles, it seems construction of the mill may be about to start. In recent weeks, speculation has grown that Gunns is close...
Date: May 19th 2009
Publication: The 7.30 Report
Author: Conor Duffy
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Freedom of Information documents reveal the timber company, Gunns, will be charged very low water rates for its planned pulp mill in Tasmania's north.
Date: May 15th 2009
Publication: ABC
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The company's stocks recently gained ground to achieve some of their best levels in six months, but they began to slide again this week after reports the mill's approval might be open to legal challenge.
Date: May 14th 2009
Publication: ABC News
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The Australian community is divided over whether the Federal Government's proposed revised climate change strategy is a step in the right direction. The changes extend the upper limit of possible carbon reductions to 25 per cent, but delay its introduction for a year until 2011.
Date: May 11th 2009
Publication: Eureka Street
Author: Michael Mullins
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