Get Up! unveils first 2013 election campaign ad
Progressive activist group Get Up! has released its first television commercial of the 2013 election campaign, focusing on the issues people vote for.
Called The People’s Campaign Get Up! hopes to use crowd funding to get the commercial on television.
“The ad is designed to motivate people to think about the value of their vote, and what they want to use it for,” said Rohan Wenn, national communications director for Get Up!.
The one minute commercial highlights a number of progressive causes including refugee, environmental and social issues that have been influenced because of the way people voted in past elections.
A change of government will hopefully compel this onanistic organisation to become accountable for what it is – a political party.
Currently they skirt around the transparency laws, avoiding public and financial scrutiny. They’re a front for the ALP, plain and simple.
Speaking of “plain and simple”, could they have found a worse bunch of losers to appear in an ad that this lot? Talk about putting voters off listening to their message. Erk.
Mike, meanwhile, the telegraph one-upped itself this week, after Monday’s “kick this mob out”, yesterday we had the prime minister and deputy depicted as Nazis. I eagerly await your response on precisely when we declare that particular organisation an LNP front.
Shame these people didn’t also admit to voting for the monumental failures of the ALP too – massive public debt, rising unemployment, border protection, carbon tax, union thuggery, cronyism, corruption, the failed mining tax, endemic factionalism, failed public transport, class war, running the defence force down, chronic spin, etc, etc….
Can’t you remember the grin on Kevin Rudd’s face when he left the headquarters of News Limited in New York in the months preceding the 2007 election? I think this is the part of the proverb where he dies by the sword.
Mike, you can get help for your condition, and you really should.
Mike, to be fair and realistic, they’re actually more closely a front for the Greens.
BS, your name neatly summarises your post, I like that.
@ Encyclic… Really? Which one of those would you say were actually wrong????
Can someone help: Who funds GetUp (aside from the $1.2 million mentioned above)?
I know it’s soooo easy to race to the claim that the paper is calling Rudd and Dep Nazis – because that is such an easy thing to say to create maximum “OOOH ARRRR” shock value. It just isn’t true.
Hogans’ Heroes is a perfectly harmless comedy – still run on TV today and was deemed acceptable to run 20 years after the war ended – when plenty of the people affected were still around. But now – oh, they’re not the German Airforce (Klink, Schultz etc are all Lutfwaffe) – no it is much easier to call them Nazis.
It’s a pity that Get Up uses the TVC to shove issues in people’s faces. I think it would have been a superb ad if it was left more open ended for people to think about what issues are actually important to them as opposed to people being told what issues they should find important. The way the ad is now, it may as well be a Green’s TVC.
LIES!!! So before 1972, “most” people couldn’t afford healthcare! Ha! Really? What a load of rubbish. These GetUp clowns have now shame!
Get Julian Assange in there – they need a dose of honesty!
I agree with BS – and they are Labor’s good points!
‘no’ shame i.e
If we are saying people’s names relate to what they stand for – you might be onto something Encyclic?
KRUDD
GetUp? Get Lost!
Mike, in a way your are right in your wrongness. Clearly aren’t a party but are a lobby group. But if they WERE a party they’d be the best one’s to vote for.