GetUp

[catsnknots]

Many of us on the Conservative side of politics often complained that GetUp was an ALP funded initiative to manipulate the young people into voting for the left... 

we were laughed at and told that we were making up stories.... 

Well.. the truth always pops up... 

Simon Sheikh was a Labor Party member at the time he was appointed national director of self-described "independent" advocacy group GetUp! in September 2008.

He got huge amounts  in funding and often supported ALP or attacked the LNP... it was often said that GetUp was one sided and not independent and when those claims were made it was shot down as a conspiracy theory by those on the right... 

He was a Labor Party Member... simple... he was politically aligned and so is GetUp... 

[i-need-a-martini]

Does it surprise you iza?

[mtnlane]

since 2005, so when you said he was (well after 2005) he was not.

Mr Dastyari said yesterday: "Simon first joined the Labor Party on 2 April, 2004, and terminated his membership, via contacting the ALP office, on 26 November, 2008.

"Simon was a financial member for the duration of that period, with a brief period of being unfinancial, when his credit card details were rejected in late 2005."

This was promptly fixed, Mr Dastyari said, and it appeared Mr Sheikh then signed up for a three-year membership, which ensured he was a financial member for four years.

Mr Dastyari's intervention confirms reports in The Australian about Mr Sheikh's Labor Party membership.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/alp-boss-sheikh-in-party-for-four-years/story-fn59n...

[izabsmiling]

I suppose that it shouldn't Martini 

[not_an_eloi]

deliberate racist slur, folks

[lakeland27]

Mr Dastyari said yesterday: "Simon first joined the Labor Party on 2 April, 2004, and terminated his membership, via contacting the ALP office, on 26 November, 2008.

"Simon was a financial member for the duration of that period, with a brief period of being unfinancial, when his credit card details were rejected in late 2005."

This was promptly fixed, Mr Dastyari said, and it appeared Mr Sheikh then signed up for a three-year membership, which ensured he was a financial member for four years.

Mr Dastyari's intervention confirms reports in The Australian about Mr Sheikh's Labor Party membership.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/alp-boss-sheikh-in-party-for-four-years/story-fn59n...

i don't read that thing sorry. but i did make an error in my reply to cat. last year cat said he was a member of the labor party, when by the exerpt from the article that  is false.

[izabsmiling]

NAE, as the Act reads it could qualify