Sunday, April 13, 2008
THOUSAND MINUS THREE
GetUp! and go, GetUp! and go, GetUp! and go back home ...
• Two judges get out of Kevin Rudd’s summit;
• Andrew Denton gets out of Kevin Rudd’s summit (as reported by the Sunday Telegraph - no link available);
• But the gleeps at GetUp! are staying in:
Only 1000 people will be deliberating Australia’s future at next week’s 2020 Summit - but that’s not to say your voice won’t be heard. Incredibly, 118 of the chosen delegates are GetUp members, including our Executive Director Brett Solomon ...
That’s from an email to GetUp! cult followers. They’re more circumspect about their summit influence at GetUp!’s site:
1000 leading Australians are heading to Canberra to debate and shape a long-term strategy for Australia’s future in ten key areas ... a bunch of the official delegates to 2020 are also GetUp members ...
Only a bunch? Why so shy? GetUp! should be proud of its power ... especially Lachlan Harris, recently graduated from lowly GetUp! spokesboy to official Prime Ministerial sorryist. Meanwhile, fearless GetUp! truthcheckers report that the Rudd government hasn’t broken a single promise.
Via Alan R.M. Jones and Frollicking Mole. Tony Kevin suggests a few candidates who might fill the Denton/judges void:
Here are some of the names not on the list for the ‘foreign affairs and security’ committee -commentators and writers Bruce Haigh, Peter Mares, Dick Woolcott, Allan Behm, Nic Stuart, activists Helen Caldicott, Sue Wareham, Margo Kingston, controversial persons Andrew Wilkie, Lance Collins, Richard Butler and yours truly, academics Owen Harries, Coral Bell, Alison Broinowski, Stuart Harris, Tony Milner, Desmond Ball. Of course some of these - myself included - may not have applied. And most of my names here are over 55s. I wish the summit well.
Mate, it’ll need more than wishes.