Senator Stephen Conroy must soon set aside the joys of taking the axe to Telstra — satisfying though that must be — and return to a topic he surely dreads: internet censorship.
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Anti-censorship ad hits turbulence
Qantas refuses to run GetUp’s new anti-censorship ad that lampoons the government’s net filters while GlaxoSmithKline says they may sue over its infringement on the ‘Sensodyne’ trademark, reports Asher Moses.
Don’t discount the consumer in reducing emissions
Voluntary consumer action is one of a number of actions outside the CPRS that could reduce Australia greenhouse gas emissions, writes Gordon Renouf.
GetUp: laying our climate strategy on the table
GetUp is trying to ensure Australia is not a blocker in international climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December, writes GetUp’s Meredith Turnbull and Simon Sheikh.
Get Up! going nowhere on climate
Is GetUp! more intent on cultivating its membership base by appealing to green symbolism than forcing the Government to get serious about global warming, asks Clive Hamilton?
GetUp and its strange but well-heeled bedfellows
Monday’s list of political donations revealed left-leaning lobbyists GetUp spent a massive $1.2 million on political activity, writes Andrew Crook.
Did Thornley just get sick of the ALP’s petty squabbling?
A picture is now emerging of a restless Evan Thornley unable or unwilling to detach himself from his intellectual idealism and fully embrace the internecine squabbling that constitutes the nasty innards of the ALP, writes Andrew Crook.
Kevin the bureaucrat and the petitions committee
The House of Representatives petitions committee, which could be used by the Opposition as a sort of mini-Estimates process if they had their wits about them, writes Bernard Keane.
GetUp’s SMH article subtracts the transparency from eDemocracy
Strange that yesterday’s Herald spruiked eDemocracy without mentioning Australia’s only website devoted to publishing the proceedings of parliament, writes Sarah Stokely.
GetUp: not even Stokes could get our ad on air
The Seven Network are having trouble sticking to a consistent story — originally they denied GetUp had booked any ads at all, then, once GetUp produced the confirmed booking sheets, claimed the booking was for another ad unrelated to Tibet, writes Ed Coper from GetUp.
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Hughes: 2020, GetUp!, and the getting of influence
The creeping influence of GetUp! is a sign of the changed political landscape in Canberra, and the new rules of doing business there, writes ANU marketing lecturer Andrew Hughes.
Liberals snub the net and the chance of public engagement
The debate will start on Saturday night about whether any of the “e-lection” internet initiatives made much difference to the end result. However, if there are votes to be had online it’s a dead cert that the Liberals won’t have garnered too many of them, write Marcus Westbury and Jason Wilson.
So think global, act local isn’t enough?
GetUp! have got smug and risk scaring off ordinary members of the public and only appealing to a select and self righteous band of zealots – the very worst kind of elite, writes Christian Kerr.
Political bite-sized meaty chunks
GetUp! brings Willie Horton down under … And we though Barry O’Farrell was a good choice … Punter’s pal … Unfortunate choice of words … The plod and the press … The big issue of the week …
GetUp: jumping offline and taking activism to the people
Last night’s GetUp get togethers showed that the political use of emerging technologies doesn’t have to be confined to YouTube or online petitions – new technology also opens a whole new world of possibilities for ‘offline’ political action, writes Brett Solomon.
