Get Up! target Abbott and Turnbull with strategic outdoor for Protect Our ABC campaign
Activist group Get Up has taken their campaign to protect the ABC to the streets with two outdoor executions strategically placed in the constituencies of Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull.
The posters funded by Get Up members and created by Motion Picture Company feature the characters from the ABC’s long running children’s show Bananas in Pyjamas looking distressed next to the slogan “Protect our (ABC)”.
Rushcutter’s Bay poster
In the interest of transparency and saving money why doesn’t the Getup donations page auto redirect straight to ALP’s https://australianlaborparty.nationbuilder.com/donate ?
I’d rather see a public campaign that criticizes the ABC until this publicly-funded organization becomes truly non-partisan, as it is supposed to be.
Well – that will please Tony’s former employer/ABC competitor.
In the interest of transparency, why doesn’t news corp declare its ownership of the LNP?
Hmmm, why the Bananas in Pajamas? Why not a gigantic picture of Tony Jones’s Head and “protect my quarter of million a year paycheck”?
Why’s that WB … to highlight that the ABC’s biggest earner is way behind the commercial FTA presenters pay cheques?
We need our ABC to provide us with information denied to us be our’democratically’ government. Also need entertainment uninterrupted by mindless advertising which, later in the evening, takes up at least equal time to the programme.
I never miss the ABC’s seven o’clock news with the wonderful Juanita Phillips. Or the 7.30 Report with Leigh Sales and Lateline with the gorgeous Emma Albereci. I can’t say the news reporting is biased but even I’d agree that any Liberal that goes on 7.20/Lateline gets a much tougher time of things than a Labor/Green counterpart.
WB point well made – but actually it’s not a quarter-million paycheck – it’s $390,000! And it along with Mark Scott’s $800,000 a year is a national disgrace.
Now you mention it, the ABC is a national disgrace.
What a waste of supporters’ money to upstage and try to justify what ABC has done wrong !!!
ABC has degenerated over decades. ABC Classic FM station is the only station that warrant my frequent visits.
The slogan should be: “Protect Labor’s ABC”
As an outsider looking in, although I’ve been here 14 years. Australia’s media is truly, truly awful and I’ve worked in it for 10 years. The only saving grace you have is the ABC.
Amazing that so many come out to knock it. Or are your paid up members of News Ltd? I would ask yourselves when its gone who will hold those in power to account? Fairfax, News ltd (you seen news.com.au’s front page?) don’t make me laugh.
You wonder why The Guardian and Daily Mail are here and found it so easy, it’s because you do it so,so badly.
How many productions not from the ABC (Neighbours and Home and Away aside) are screened overseas?
Could you see any of you commercial publications challenging the international news market? Of course not because again you do it so badly.
The population are quite literally breaking the law to get overseas content because the stuff you produce here is terrible. You pay $90 a month to Foxtel for 10 year old reruns of Top Gear and Pawn Stars and they still play just as many ads as free to air.
You’re mugging yourselves off Australia and Rupert is laughing his a**e off at you.