GetUp's election plans

[Black Orchid]

GetUp is asking the public to nominate which conservative Coalition MPs are “the worst of a bad bunch” to help it prioritise targets for the federal election.

The new appeal will help it recruit campaigners in an election year and signals an intention to focus not on the government’s most marginal seats but rather the biggest opponents of progressive policies.

Eighteen Coalition MPs have been chosen by the activist body, with participants asked to choose three. Not all are marginal seat holders but were chosen by GetUp for what it considers “out of date” views on climate change, “heartless positions” on immigration policy and those who “blatantly discriminate” on social justice issues.

The results of the survey will be updated live on the website.

GetUp has already committed to high-profile campaigns against MP Tony Abbott and the home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, but offers voters a host of other options in its “Let’s vote out the hard right” campaign, which it considers an “extension” of its original campaign.

GetUp’s proposed targets include the attorney general, Christian Porter, the health minister, Greg Hunt, and the energy minister, Angus Taylor, as well as the influential conservative backbenchers George Christensen, Craig Kelly and Michael Sukkar.

The list of target MPs includes several in nominally safe Coalition seats including Kevin Andrews, who holds Menzies with a 10% margin, Barnaby Joyce, who holds New England on 23.4%, and even the prime minister, Scott Morrison, who is likely untouchable in Cook with a 15.4% buffer.

Abbott, who holds Warringah with a margin of 11.6%, is under a concerted attack from grassroots organisers keen to capitalise on dissatisfaction about conservatives’ role in bringing down Malcolm Turnbull.

The former prime minister is facing a challenge from the Indigenous broadcaster and mental health educator Susan Moylan-Coombs. The social commentator Jane Caro has also contemplated a run against Abbott.

GetUp has completed a survey of 23,000 of its members that found their top priorities for the 2019 election are: action on climate change and stopping the Adani coalmine, renewable energy, evacuation of people from offshore detention on Manus Island and Nauru, social spending on health and education, and protecting the ABC and SBS.

Members placed less priority on: stopping tax evasion by corporations and high-income earners, a federal anti-corruption watchdog, raising income support for the unemployed, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander campaigns and defending multiculturalism.

Despite being dwarfed by unions – collectively Australia’s largest social movement with more than 1.8 million members – GetUp is an outsized irritant to conservative media and politicians, many of who believe the political right should emulate its organising tactics.

The campaign body has drawn the ire of the Coalition for its refusal to identify as an “associated entity” of the opposition Labor and Greens parties, particularly after its decision in 2016 to hand out how-to-vote cards directing preferences away from the Liberal and National parties.

[Black Orchid]

GetUp’s national director, Paul Oosting, said voters in targeted electorates could expect to see his organisation’s members on the other end of their phone lines and at their doors, as well as witness to crowd funded advertising campaigns, with a focus on digital and social media.

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The conservative side of politics has attempted to counter GetUp campaigns with its own centre-right campaign organisations, the latest incarnation being Advance Australia. So far, an inability to agree on core issues to target has hampered all previous conservative campaigns to establish its own GetUp style campaign machine.

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What a disgusting lot the new wave of ALP and Greens are.

[Serial Brain 9]

We now have international criminals medaling in Australian Elections, both Federal and State

People need to wake up before we lose our country to a bunch of left wing lunatics

[brian ross]

All they are doing is bringing society back into balance after it had been hijacked by a bunch of Tory losers. The next election is pretty much a shoe-in with the ALP to win. By how much is the only question now.

[LEFTWINGER supreme]

30 seat Losses coming up for libtards

[cods]

ITS CALLED DIRTY POLITICS......

WAIT TILL THEY GET SOME OF IT BACK...LOL

DID YOU READ THE THREAD I STARTED ON ALBOS MARRIAGE BREAK UP..

YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT I WAS THE OTHER WOMEN....THEY WERE OUTRAGED... HILARIOUS..


what is it with lefties they actually believe the crap they spew..


as for 30 seat...


boy are you going to get your nosed rubbed in that one ltard.....

you seriously think your boy has got anything aussies want.?

[cods]

GET UP is an unelected party

it should not be allowed to do this.....it is held together with foreign money

it is dividing this country ... so when if labor get in it will be beholden to GET UP just as it is the UNIONS.

[Black Orchid]

GET UP is an unelected party

it should not be allowed to do this.....it is held together with foreign money

it is dividing this country ... so when if labor get in it will be beholden to GET UP just as it is the UNIONS.

Exactly! You have to wonder about the mentality of those who don't GET that.

[Redneck]

Get Up is doing a great job with lots of followers/donors!

Competing with the big end of town who support the Libs!

Ban donations from all but elected voters limited to $1000 / election if you dont like getup, I could handle that!

[LEFTWINGER supreme]

30 seat victory coming up