It's about time GetUp formalised its extreme leftism and applied for registration as political party. It is clearly an anti-Coalition organisation, not just some kindly and well-meaning observer.

Pro Life Groups has every right to promote its own causes, as does any other entity.

It is called democracy.

Chris Lewis and runner,
It's actually called free speech. But it's closely associated with democracy, and democracy doesn't work so well without it.

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ttbn,
> It's about time GetUp formalised its extreme leftism and applied for registration as political party.
In other words, you want to see GetUp fail, and you see the surest way of doing that would be to switch its focus from issues into party politics.

GetUp didn't set out to be an anti Coalition organisation. But the Coalition's policies often conflict strongly with the values that many of our younger people have.

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individual,
I don't know what exactly the highly paid bureaucrats are doing, so I can't tell you whether their salaries are justified or not. Theoretically there are many positions where doing the job well consul save the government many millions of dollars, so they certainly could be justified. But whether they actually are is another matter.

I'd like to see more reliance on crowdsourcing to improve government spending efficiency.

It is called democracy.
runner,
That's debatable when the groups don't follow up on the consequences of their agenda.
Take Pro Life for example. They push for unwanted pregnancies to go through but once the babies are actually in need of looking after, Pro Life suddenly fades out of view !
I'm all for Life, Quality of life that is not just life for life's sake & then heap up this life with misery plus !
Pro Life should be looking at prevention instead of cure that they expect others to follow up on.
Our TV people are making a little fortune in showing us commercials about helping poor kids. The money spent on the commercials would help the kids more than any commercial !
Same with Pro Life. If they vented all their effort towards helping families in need, fewer abortions would & less misery would be the case.
If Pro Life would encourage a National Service many young females would not have unwanted pregnancies ! Why ? Because a NS would make them think !

"GetUp didn't set out to be an anti Coalition organisation".Aidan.

Pull the other one Aidan, it yodels.

Aidan,

Considering that GetUp was set up by Labor and the greens, funded by the unions, and is controlled absolutely by a cabal of 9 labor/green heavies, both the claim that Getup was not formed as an anti coalition organisation and the claim that the actions it takes is based on the youth are complete lies.

I will generously assume that Aidan is simply ignorant and is mindlessly regurgitating Getup's propaganda.