"GetUp presents as a moral, mass movement, committed to ridding the nation of extremism, but is itself a purveyor of out-there ideology. It is secretive, undemocratic and a law unto itself. We welcome political debate and participation. But unlike others in the fray, GetUp doesn’t exist to elect people to parliament — its business model is to destroy careers. During last year’s campaign, the left activist group and unions conducted a sickening all-out assault on South Australian Liberal Nicolle Flint. The repulsive personal attacks on the member for Boothby created an environment for abuse, harassment, intimidation, shouting, even stalking to become the “new normal”. Other Liberals targeted by GetUp were Peter Dutton, Kevin Andrews, Christian Porter, Greg Hunt and Tony Abbott.

And where did that money go? As Brad Norington reported on Monday, GetUp spent more than 70 per cent of the $12.4m in public donations it raised last year on salaries, administration costs and travel. Hold on, doesn’t the leftist group boast “every dollar you donate to GetUp is used to build a more fair, flourishing and just Australia”? We suppose there’s some marketing juice in that phrasing, but the spiel goes on to claim “your donation will be used to fund billboards”, “hard-hitting TV ads into the lounge rooms” of key seats and “rallies demonstrating people power”. Such a contribution is an “investment in extraordinary impact”. Nice impact, if you can get some. Many people will feel dudded by these odd priorities."

Well, it's the left, it's to be expected !

'Moral' and GetUp just don't go together.

Everyone gets that you dislike GetUp. But political attack ads are nothing new - they've been around for decades! And considering Nicolle Flint retained her seat, your accusation of them destroying careers is really not credible.

You mention they've previously attacked Tony Abbott - surely he deserved to be attacked? This treacherous skunk defunded the Australia TV Network just before it was due to sign a contract to broadcast in China - meaning we lost an enormous opportunity to counteract the lies of the Chinese Communist Party. How many decades do we have to go back to see an Australian PM do something so strongly against our national interest?

As for GetUp's financial priorities, keep in mind that a lot of people donate time rather than money.

Aidan,

My objection to GetUp has two facets, firstly GetUp was set up by Bill Shorten primarily to bypass any donation laws, so they happily accepted money from overseas donors, developers etc, and as such is a vehicle for corruption.

Secondly, it does not just do attack ads, the abuse, harassment, the vile ads and sometimes outright violence make it a political obscenity.

That it is a paid training ground for labor future pollies essentially makes it essentially a branch of the Labor party.

It's about time Morrison took notice of what his backstabbing Lefty Liberals (the ones who call themselves 'moderates' as if other Liberals were really extremists) are up to. Quisling - better suited to the Green party - Dave Sharma has admitted he donates to GetUp!.