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Saturday 27th December - The Latest

Posted on December 27th, 2008 by The GetUp Team (16 comments)

GetUp! has launched a new advertisement in response to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s back-down on climate change. We've cleared the remaining hurdles and uploaded the broadcast version to satellite ready for the TV networks to play - the ad will play tomorrow afternoon in Sydney and Melbourne, and Monday afternoon in the rest of the country! Stay tuned between 1pm and 6pm during the cricket to see it air! Watch it now and chip in to help get it on the air! [For the media]

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How will a Human Rights Act help ordinary people?

Posted on December 10th, 2008 by Anna Saulwick (92 comments)

Finally, thanks to ongoing pressure from people like you, the Government has today opened up the conversation on human rights. The announcement of a national consultation on human rights in Australia is the beginning of one of the most important democratic processes that we will ever witness, and the launch GetUp’s most important human rights campaign yet. The move toward a national law protecting human rights has the potential to vastly improve human rights protection in Australia. We don’t need to look hard to find human rights abuses in this country: children have been...

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Does the Government have an anti-teacher agenda?

Posted on November 26th, 2008 by Paul (0 comments)

I am concerned that the anti-teacher agenda that was proposed by the previous Federal Govt is now being adopted in another guise by Julia Gillard. Every attempt is being made by her to apparently distance herself from her predecessors' policies.Though her actual agenda would indicate the opposite.  Teaching is the only profession where everyone is an expert because we have all been to school and had experiences that impact upon our current opinion(s). Rupert Murdoch - a major hegemonist and contributor to the perpetuation of conservative public opinion - has weighed in saying that...

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Keeping the housing affordability debate on track

Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Andrew Bartlett (1 comments)

There is certainly a very determined attempt being made around the globe by some of the more ideologically motivated commentators to create a mythology that the genesis of the financial crisis in the USA is somehow due to government measures promoting affordable housing for lower income earners (read: minority groups). The Australian has carried another article trying to make this link, this time by the Director of the Adam Smith Institute in the UK. This crisis was not caused by capitalism being fatally flawed. It was caused by politicians forcing the banks to give out bad loans,...

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Frustrating end to the Senate's Spring sitting

Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Jason Wilson (2 comments)

Estimates this week have covered a number of issues that are pressing for all Australians. But the treatment of these issues hasn't always been as serious as we might have hoped. Australia's response to the financial crisis has been under scrutiny - in particular the role of Treasury honcho Ken Henry in providing advice leading to the guarantee of bank deposits. Opposition Senators grilled Doctor Henry about whether or not he'd consulted adequately with the Reserve Bank before offering his advice, but as Bernard Keane pointed out in Crikey, in doing so they squandered the opportunity to...

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