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Alan Jones boycott tops Change.org list of ten most signed petitions

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Online petition group Change.org has released a list of its ten most popular petitions this year – with a campaign to pressure advertisers to boycott the radio show of shock jock Alan Jones topping the lot.

Jones’ station 2GB came under fire after the controversial host said in a speech that the PM’s father had “died of shame”. The Macquarie Radio Network station pulled ads after public pressure from groups including Change.org.

Media-related petitions made up three of the top ten. Campaigns to stop Cleo Magazine airbrushing young girls and a Facebook page of racist Aboriginal memes also featured.

The list in full:

1. Boycott Alan Jones (114,134 signatures)

2. Eliminate the “gay panic” defence (42,447 Australian signatures)

3. Victorian Govt – save and improve nurse/patient ratios (29,712 signatures)

4. No to Homophobia in AFL (26,405 signatures)

5. Stop the Stronger Futures legislation (21,108 signatures)

6. Justice for Kwementyaye Briscoe (21,100 signatures)

7. NRL – Take a stand on domestic violence (19,153 signatures)

8. Facebook: Close the Aboriginal Memes page (18,999 signatures)

9. Cleo Magazine: stop digitally altering images (18,474 signatures)

10. Call a Royal Commission into sexual abuse (18,331 signatures)

Change.org claims that of the top ten petitions, eight were “victories or achieved significant progress – giving a lie to the notion that online activism doesn’t work”, the company said.

Among Change.org’s more trivial petitions was a campaign to pressure director Tim Burton to Stop Painting Johnny Depp’s Face White and one to insist that No More Meat Loaf featured as the lead band at the AFL Grand Final.

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