Hey 'Getup' how about narrowing your focus on Copenhagen, and refocus on things a little closer to home, i.e. internet filtering. We can all do our own personal bit to help reduce carbon emissions, but unless we have a strong united front, Conroy and his goons are going to take away our civil liberties and degrade our internet services.

Also agree with you Benjamin. Indigenous Australians and their homelessness issues need to be seriously addressed, not to mention the myriad of other issues they are facing.

Hey 'Getup' how about narrowing your focus on Copenhagen, and refocus on things a little closer to home, i.e. internet filtering. We can all do our own personal bit to help reduce carbon emissions, but unless we have a strong united front, Conroy and his goons are going to take away our civil liberties and degrade our internet services.

Hey 'Getup' how about narrowing your focus on Copenhagen, and refocus on things a little closer to home, i.e. internet filtering. We can all do our own personal bit to help reduce carbon emissions, but unless we have a strong united front, Conroy and his goons are going to take away our civil liberties and degrade our internet services.

Hey 'Getup' how about narrowing your focus on Copenhagen, and refocus on things a little closer to home, i.e. internet filtering. We can all do our own personal bit to help reduce carbon emissions, but unless we have a strong united front, Conroy and his goons are going to take away our civil liberties and degrade our internet services.

Martin Landolt: "Probably it is too simple to ask for (sic) basic questions…" - most of your questions are asked of every asylum seeker by the UNHCR - and only those with valid answers are granted asylum. It is not, never has been, an open-door policy.

Hey 'Getup' how about narrowing your focus on Copenhagen, and refocus on things a little closer to home, i.e. internet filtering. We can all do our own personal bit to help reduce carbon emissions, but unless we have a strong united front, Conroy and his goons are going to take away our civil liberties and degrade our internet services.

Yes Chris climate change has happened before. There have been a couple of Ice Ages. Do you think you can live through an Ice Age Chris? I mean a real one not the cartoon one. Do you know how much money the government pays to the coal industry of our tax money Chris? Do you really think that pumping this much shit into the environment is not going to have an effect?

Chris Toland - Are you fucking kidding me? Yes climate change is natural, but the rate that it is happening is outrageous. Humans are the only species in the world to destroy the environment it lives in. At the rate we're going, we'll have greatly diminished species in both flora and fauna, and oil will be dried up in the near future, with its price skyrocketing before it does.

Intelligent people stopped arguing the existence of climate change some time ago Chris. It's time we stopped silly excuses and all got off our collective butts. I'll be supporting this ad campaign. Once again GetUp, you're doing a wonderful job.

the uninformed simplistic notions of the likes of Chris Toland (above) drive me NUTS. of course Earth has experienced dramatic climate changes over billions of years. but people like this forget that it's the RATE OF CHANGE that puts the smoking gun squarely in the hands of humans. the GHG effect is very simple: the more CO2 you put in the ... See Moreatmosphere (which we have been doing for a century) can be measured by a high school science student. the effect is to warm the atmosphere, and produce climate extremes of all kinds. the long-term effect can be runaway climate change that could take centuries or millenia to undo. what is so fuckin hard to understand about this???

and as for the Liberal Party deadshits - howTF can you debate a CTS when you don't even believe the overwhelming king-tide of people smarter than most of us (scientists working in many different climate/environment fields) who tell us this is OUR problem? and all the while totally ignoring the issue of 'Peak Oil' - the virtual certainty that we are... See More within decades of running out of oil? all the coal in the world is no substitute for the oil we use for everything from transport to toothbrushes. we don't actually need to run out of oil to suffer major economic turmoil - just enough drop in supply to escalate prices beyond all recognition. and simultaneously ignoring the enormous business opportunities in moving to renewable energy sources.

onya getup.
thanks to the likes of c toland for reminding us what we're up against. as if hey hey it's 1973 didn't already...

I have just signed GetUp's petition to secure a Human Rights Act for Australia after I saw that:

1. Without a Oz Human Rights bill, big business has, over decades, gained contractual rights to huge proportions of Australian Natural resources for a pittance - incl. our commonly owned & very precious fresh-water reserves & environmental flows - This happened because Australia has weak & self-serving ALP & "Coalition" parties, placing corporate rights well above the rights of humans & ecosystems to survive

2. Consultations found over 85% of Australians support an Act... See More

This Oz Human Rights Act will inject spine to the otherwise spineless big parties, so .. take a minute to snd this potent Get Up message to the law makers

signed on the dotted line.....................................! ...................... do it!!!

Good Milli, me too.

So did I! (Though the petition seemed a bit simplistic)

Unfortunately, with a lack of party majority in the Senate, Senator Fielding wields power to swing either way in any debate, so the current government need him.

Brilliant job GetUp!

'Get up, Stand up, Get up for your life' to quote Bob Marley.