GetUp political activist group 'angers' the public by using 'dirty tactics'

Queensland Senator Amanda Stoker says the public are finally realising just how “toxic, divisive and destructive” the political activist group GetUp has been over the past few years.

Sky News host Peta Credlin reported GetUp volunteer campaigners are “angry” that the organisation are spending an increasing amount of money on salaries, administration costs, and travel when they promised to invest money in “campaigns, billboards and hard-hitting TV adds".

Ms Stoker said while “12.4 million dollars were donated” only 29 cents in the dollar were spent on "campaigns and the rest went on executive salaries and their travel”.

“It’s the kind of dishonesty and dirty tactics we have seen over and over again from Getup and last night in the chamber I took the opportunity to expose one of their nastiest tactics called bird-dogging".

Ms Stoker said bird-dogging is the “process of teaching teams of GetUp volunteers and staff to form groups to harass, to yell… to verbally disrupt and physically disrupt candidates when they are out in the field”.

Bird-dogging “treats people as commodities” and is intentionally “designed to psychologically crush the opposition,” Ms Stoker told Sky News host Peta Credlin.

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