Get Up

[cods]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ ... 25be75be4b

ACTIVIST group GetUp is sending strategic advice to a key adviser to Warringah independent candidate Zali Steggall in a bid to oust Tony Abbott.

Campaign manager Louise Hislop is among 52 members of GetUp’s official “Warringah Action Group” list, which shares information via an encrypted messenger app on how to target the former prime minister.

Membership of the left-wing lobbyists’ messaging list is by invitation only for active members and requires an invite link and approvals from GetUp staff

The Daily Telegraph has obtained screenshots of Ms Hislop on the list, run via a phone app called Slack, as well as her profile which includes her photograph and current mobile phone number.

Other members on the internal messaging list — which works in much the same way as WhatsApp — include GetUp’s office support team for NSW and GetUp’s campaigns manager Django Merope Synge. The purpose of the Warringah Action Group is to “communicate with each other and co-ordinate the group’s activities, meetings and events”, the group states.

GetUp, which spent nearly $800,000 in political campaigning last financial year, has been under fire for claiming to be “independent” but in fact acting on behalf of the ALP and the Greens.

Last night Ms Hislop would not answer calls from The Daily Telegraph, but in a statement Ms Steggall denied her campaign manager was a member of the Warringah Action Group.

“It would be false and inaccurate to suggest so,” she said.

“She was asked to provide information to them about Voices of Warringah, which she did. They included her in the Slack app which she has not checked.

“Although I have not met members of the Warringah Action Group I am sure they are a group of decent and engaged community members who want action on climate change and compliance with our international human rights obligations.”

Ms Hislop has been involved in many local activist groups, including Voices of Warringah.

She has also praised Labor leader Bill Shorten, saying “he was quite stirring. He’s got the fire in his belly” about a speech she shared on social media last year.

The training manual for Slack for GetUp states: “Slack will be used to share strategic information so we need to keep it as secure as we can. Slack is a space for active members of Action Groups, people who attend meetings and/or other action group events regularly.”

A source familiar with how GetUp uses Slack said a member had to be sent a code/link and then sign up, which requires an email address and then a verification email.

“And from there they need to join the relevant action group, which in her (Ms Hislop’s) case is #ag-warringah,” he said. “It couldn’t be done by accident.”

Last night Mr Abbott described the group as a “form of political mafia”. And while he would not be drawn on Ms Steggall’s campaign, he said that despite what independent candidates say, “voting for an independent just brings a Labor government closer”.

He also rejected the phrase used by several local candidates that they are “sensible centrist Liberals”.

“They are not Liberals,” Mr Abbott said.

“They are not even Labor lite. They are basically Green left warriors.”
Liberal MP Ben Morton, who is on a parliamentary committee which called GetUp “obstructive”, said “they’re a wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing”.

GetUp has targeted Mr Abbott in his electorate on the northern beaches, hosting meetings, ringing voters and offering free food as part of a “Turf Out Tony” campaign.


Darryl Lovegrove has pulled out of the race to back Ms Steggall.
Late last week another independent candidate, Manly-based singer Darryl Lovegrove — who shared GetUp material on his social media channels, pulled out of the race saying he wanted to back Ms Steggall.

“I think Zali is a great candidate. I went to her launch and saw the groundswell of support she had. Then I looked at her policies and saw they are pretty much the same as mine,” he said.

Local poet and music teacher Tristan Alaba also withdrew last week to support Ms Steggall, after pledging to run in an attempt to gather preferences. He denied being a GetUp candidate. “I do not intend to be elected but I intend to be effective,” he had told his followers. “If I get say 11 per cent of votes, which is my benchmark, I can pass these on to my preferred candidate.”

Conservative lobby group Advance Australia’s national director Gerard Benedet said candidates were being told to pull out to “narrow the field”, to avoid the vote being split.





THIS IS WRONG..... WHERE WILL IT STOP......WILL IT BE OK FRO FAR RIGHT GROUPS TO DO THE SAME THING TO LABOR MEMBERS?..

WHAT THE BETTING THEY WOULD SCREAM THE PLACE DOWN IF GET UP WAS A FAR RIGHT GROUP OF MEDDLERS FROM GOD KNOWS WHERE.

[brian ross]

I thought we had right wing groups like GetUp, Cods. The Business Council, the Bankers, etc. All work tirelessly for the Tories and seek to influence Tory policy.

[IQS.RLOW]

I thought we had right wing groups like GetUp, Cods. The Business Council, the Bankers, etc. All work tirelessly for the Tories and seek to influence Tory policy.

Oh goody, the left are advocating for the banks to have tax free status!

[cods]

I thought we had right wing groups like GetUp, Cods. The Business Council, the Bankers, etc. All work tirelessly for the Tories and seek to influence Tory policy.

seriously I hadnt heard where they go this FAR please feel free to put up a link
LIKE I DID>.

or shut up!

[cods]

poor bri bri

he thinks he insults us by calling us Tories.... maybe he needs to research and discovered the tories have spent more time in POWER than any labor team has ever done... I bit like here...

[Redneck]

"Hooray for GetUp!

Hooray at last!

Hooray for Getup!

Going to boot Abbott!

Right up the arse!"


I will donate $10 to that today!

[brian ross]

I thought we had right wing groups like GetUp, Cods. The Business Council, the Bankers, etc. All work tirelessly for the Tories and seek to influence Tory policy.

seriously I hadnt heard where they go this FAR please feel free to put up a link
LIKE I DID>.

or shut up!

Why should I put up a link to something that is self-evident, Cods? The Tories are supported by the Big End of town. The Big End does nothing without a reason and guess what that reason is? To have influence over government for their own betterment. Not your betterment but the betterment of the Packers, the Murdochs, the Rineharts, the Holmes a Courts, etc. They don't put their money into the Business Council for nothing. The Bankers have their various organisations. Well, we've seen what happens when people like the Bankers are allowed to run wild, now haven't we? Tut, tut, where you going to hide your money, Cods? Under the bed?

[The Reboot]

"Hooray for GetUp!

Hooray at last!

Hooray for Getup!

Going to boot Abbott!

Right up the arse!"


I will donate $10 to that today!

It's a hard one.

Abbott is a tosser and needs to fuck off, but GetUp are a meddling group on par with Jehovah's Witnesses..

[sprintcyclist]

Tony Abbott is very good.

[Black Orchid]

GetUp is far more of a threat to Australians than Abbott ever could be.