Abstract:
‘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 refugees. This time, however, the hard right attacks were vicious: a demand that GetUp reveal its donors led to a highly dubious Federal Police raid on the offices of the Australian Workers’ Union, one of GetUp’s earlyfinancial supporters.
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