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Guess who was a founding board member of GetUp? Bill Shorten. He was the head of the Australian Workers Union at the time and personally authorised $100,000 in members’ funds to be given as a donation to GetUp!
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Another founding Board Member was Cate Faehrmann - she’s a Greens NSW MP, and before that was Chief of staff to Greens Leader Richard di Natale.
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Australia’s most militant union the CFMEU gave the largest single donation in GetUp’s history with a $1.2 million gift to GetUp – which in turn campaigned against controls on union thuggery and lawlessness.
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But wait, there's more...
- One of the three original founders of GetUp is AmandaTattersall - a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Unions NSW and former staffer for NSW Labor MP.
- Former Victorian Labor MP Evan Thorley is a major private donor to GetUp.
- Lachlan Harris, a founding staff member of GetUp, went on to work for Wayne Swan and then became Kevin Rudd’s Senior Media Adviser.
- GetUp’s National Director from 2012-15 was Sam McLean - he joined Bill Shorten’s staff in 2016.
- GetUp’s National Director from 2008-12 was Simon Sheikh – he’s a former ALP member, and was a Greens candidate as well.
- Skye Laris is a former GetUp Campaign Director – she’s also the partner and former Chief-of-Staff to Labor frontbencher Tony Burke.