Transparancy

In the words of Bob Marley, GetUp! – stand up.

Why are you hiding behind that bush Simon?

GetUp! should stand up and tell Australians who they really are.  Are they an activist organisation with a certain political leaning?  Are they a pseudo political party aligned with the Greens and Labor?  Are they truly independent in their views or do they take advice from particular political identities?

For a long time GetUp! has stood upon the mountain of moral superiority and preached to us ordinary ignorant slobs on everything from economic fairness and workplace relations to the price of petrol and the plight of battery hens.

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  • Tory Maguire

    Tory Maguire says:

    11:11am | 18/09/12

    This is a statement from Serena Rogers, Director of Media and Operations at The Australia Institute: Mr Emery criticises The Australia Institute’s paper yet he makes no attempt to outline where he believes we, or our sources, got it wrong. The figures quoted in our paper come from the ATO’s… Read more »

  • GetUp Member says:

    06:14pm | 15/09/12

    pa_kelvin…With the greatest respect, if you had a better understanding of what GetUp is about (don’t believe the hype) then you would realise what you said would defeat the whole purpose for their very existence, they would simply be another political party with their snouts in the trough. GetUp have… Read more »

 

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