Articles by: Amanda Tattersall

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Trying to Set Up GetUp?, by Amanda Tattersall

‘Associated entity’ or mass social movement?

Informit: Trying to Set Up GetUp?

'Associated entity' or mass social movement? In 2017 several members of the Liberal National Party accused GetUp of being an associated entity of the Labor Party and the Greens. It was another attack by the hard Right against its most effective political opponent. Where left-of-centre political parties have failed, this youthful digital-campaign organisation has repeatedly engaged mainstream progressive people in creative forms of action on issues as different as marriage equality and the protection of…