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GetUp! campaigns against ABC cuts

GetUp! has developed a TV ad to campaign against ABC cuts, to air in the run up to the Federal Budget.

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Crowd-sourcing activist group GetUp! has stepped up a campaign to rally around the ABC and SBS in the wake of likely funding cuts.

It has developed a TV ad to air in the run up to the Federal Budget in May.

“We only have four weeks to hold Prime Minister Abbott to his promise,” it says.

Over the coming weeks we’ll need to give it everything we’ve got – running strategic ads, holding high visibility events, mobilising our communities, delivering our fastest-ever growing petition and reminding Tony Abbott about his important election promises.

We’ll be running the ad over the next three weeks in the most strategic prime time, regional and marginal electorates; in the areas where GetUp members like Aja, as a vision-impaired Australian, relied heavily upon the services provided by the ABC when she needed critical information about how to stay safe during severe flooding and cyclones in 2008. We’ll air our ad in areas where Australians will suffer the most, should Tony Abbott take the axe to the ABC.

A Petition also has over 229,000 signatures and donations are being gathered at getup.org.au/no-cuts 

So far the government has not confirmed speculation about funding cuts to public broadcasters.

 

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  1. I don’t think it will help, the government will already have it’s plan and no ad campaign will change things, as usual we get all these rumors of doom but in the end when the budget is released and the cuts are not as bad then we are grateful or think the campaign worked. JMHO

  2. The extreme hostility invoked by some TV Tonight readers about ABC is always astounding. What happened to this site being “left-winged” like Wikipedia used to say?

    1. It was a weird inclusion, especially given I always seem to be momentarily dyslexic about left v right-wing concepts (silly I know). Don’t know who added it, don’t know who deleted it, but it did strike me as a bit out of place for a blog about telly.

  3. @JoeBloggs

    There are many groups who fund GetUp. Stop being so keen to make personal attacks. I don’t know what frightens you right-wing supporters so much about the ABC.

  4. What ever your thoughts or political leanings….in the ad…the PM says it all…and you cannot change what he said….we all heard it loud an clear…and not just about the ABC…all the other things that were not going to change.

  5. Those who seek to demonise Get Up are probably the same armchair critics who lauded Gina Rinehart and the mining companies for the very effective media campaign they ran against the mining tax during the Rudd years. Lighten up a little guys, the Get Up ad is also very effective.

  6. Isn’t it strange how GetUp! is so vocal about the left wing propaganda unit the ABC being cut yet we haven’t heard a peep out of them regarding cuts to the Aged and Disability Support Pensions. I realise this is a TV blog but it certainly makes you think about the priorities of leftist activists.

  8. @Bazza – no evidence? if you google “get up union funding” you will find all the answers you need.

    Stop being so naive.

    The Chaser did a great skit on them many years ago which sums it up best.

  10. Get Up is just another version of the mad left…same bunch of rent-a-protest-mob

    ABC can save a lot of money. One of their local radio presenters in Melb, confirmed (after press rumours) that his salary is 300,000 per year. So local radio in Melb at 300k….c’mon!!! He is good, but not 300k good. Just one public example of excess, there will be many more hidden away.

    Services should be fine, just cut costs of the execs and reduce the pay of some of the on air/on screen talent

  11. @Pertinax

    Any evidence to support your erroneous claim that GetUp is Union funded? No of course you don’t have any, because there isn’t any and there’s never even been a hint that this may be the case. GetUp is community funded and organised, it has active members from *all* political affiliations. Only someone with an axe to grind would claim otherwise.

    This is all just part of Rupert’s desire to monopolise as much of Australian media as he can. The ABC is the single biggest obstacle to that agenda.

    Also a little disheartening to see people shrug and say “they always lie”. The fact is, they didn’t always lie. Prior to the Howard government, it was quite uncommon for any promise made during electioneering to be broken. Numerous politicians have paid a large price for being caught lying about policy in the past, just ask John Hewson.

  12. yeh and a politician never ever says one thing and does another… all sides of politics lie… thats what gets them voted in…. people vote for the best fibbers… so nothing new here…. and just while we are sort of nearby… not all journos but, they all dont always tell the whole story…. just saying

  13. So if the efficiency report recommends less spending on paperclips and taxi-vouchers in Ultimo, Get Up! is going to claim that blind women at risk of cyclones will die.

    Get Up!’s real concern is the unions that fund them.

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