Conservatives in the Coalition’s ranks are holding back progress on climate change and marriage equality,the activist group says, and it is using the former PM’s spectre as a call to armsGetUp is gunning for the Abbott “resistance” – the Coalition conservatives it sees as the biggest impediments to those policies it wants to change the most. It’s a original lift on the large-scale grassroots campaigns that will shape the result of the looming federal election away from the glare of the leaders’ campaign trails and the headline national polls.
Unlike its preceding election interventions, or the online campaigning community with a membership of more than 1m is no longer targeting the seats with the most knife-edge margins but rather Coalition seats with reasonably thin margins that are also held by MPs they regard as “tough right wingers holding back progress on our key issues”.
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Source: theguardian.com