here one of the nutters on the far right in our Parliament wanted to create a Patriotic Broadcasting Corporation to replace the government funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Senator Burston has told Parliament the public broadcaster is unfairly biased against conservatives and has been the victim of a "cultural Marxist takeover".

Another far right winger in our governing party, the Liberal Party has started his own grass roots protest group to take on the (left wing) Get-up - Conservatives hope the group will ultimately rival the progressive lobby group GetUp!, with Queensland MP George Christensen saying "if we do nothing, we will let the forces of socialism and globalism conquer".

The relative few far-right wingers in the ruling rightist Liberal Party have been responsible for a lot of reversals of progressive legislation or ideas. The cartoonists love these policy flip/flops!

GetUp! is a powerful campaigning community. By combining the sheer power of a million members, movement partners and a central team of expert strategists, we do what it takes to get things done.   

Conservatives too individualistic to emulate collective power of GetUp!

I get my news from selected newspapers & the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's radio stations & website as I don't have TV or use social media, apart from following a few political cartoonists on facebook & twitter! Every now & then a facebook message pops up saying join up so I say go away, or words to that effect, & I'm not eligible to join twitter as I don't have a mobile (cell) phone.

sandra