https://hardright.getup.org.au/

Let's vote out the hard right

The hard right of the Coalition are holding back progress on the issues that matter most. Whether it's action on climate change, or evacuating the camps on Manus and Nauru – we won't see the change we need while the hard right still has power.

GetUp's gearing up to take on hard right MPs in the upcoming federal election. And we need your help deciding who to target.

Which hard right MP do you want to see out of Parliament? You can choose up to three. Cast your vote today.

(The vile ones I chose are in red. My reasoning is that they do particularly evil and corrupt things while somehow retaining popular support. Fools like Dutton are deeply evil, but they're already hanging on by their fingernails as they're extremely unpopular, and I'd like idiots like Abbott to stay in the party because they destabilise and white-ant their own party, doing more damage to the LNP than we ever could.)


Dickson,QLD

Peter Dutton

MARGIN: 1.7%

  • Led leadership coup against Malcolm Turnbull
  • Minister responsible for Manus and Nauru
  • Wants to abandon the Paris Agreement
  • Oversaw huge cuts to local hospitals as Health Minister
  • Tried to introduce the GP co-payment as Health Minister

Warringah,NSW

Tony Abbott

MARGIN: 11.6%

  • Destructive campaign to re-install himself as PM
  • Said climate change is "probably doing good" and wants to make it illegal to challenge polluters like Adani
  • Wants to keep kids locked up in offshore detention
  • Says police should enforce Indigenous kids attending school
  • Key figure in No Campaign

Menzies,VIC

Kevin Andrews

MARGIN: 10.6%

  • Tony Abbott’s most loyal supporter
  • Founder of the Monash Forum to advance coal fired power stations
  • Architect of WorkChoices that sought to strip away workers’ rights
  • Overturned Australia’s first assisted dying laws
  • Did not vote for Marriage Equality and called for gay conversion therapy

Pearce,WA

Christian Porter

MARGIN: 3.6%

  • Minister responsible for Robodebt scandal
  • Authorised the prosecution of Witness K for whistle-blowing illegal ASIS actions
  • Introduced laws to criminalise peaceful protest and laws aimed at gagging Civil Society
  • Instructed Government members to vote for Neo-Nazi "OK to be White" motion
  • Touted as a future PM

Boothby,SA

Nicolle Flint

MARGIN: 3.5%

  • Key backer of Dutton in leadership spill
  • Called Tony Abbott “the thinking person's prime minister”
  • Called accountability for bank CEOs “dangerous bank-bashing”
  • Says ABC should give climate deniers as much air time as climate scientists

Flinders,VIC

Greg Hunt

MARGIN: 7.8%

  • Dutton numbers man in leadership coup
  • Purged any mention of the Reef from a UN climate report
  • Knew of lead contamination in drinking water but did nothing to publicise it
  • Overseen parlous rollout of My Health Record and misled public about rising cost of private health insurance
  • Went on a misogynistic rant and intimidated Mayor

Kooyong,VIC

Josh Frydenberg

MARGIN: 13.3%

  • Backed cuts to penalty rates
  • Called GetUp members "extreme" for wanting a stronger climate policy
  • Ignored state calls to lift emissions reduction targets
  • Rejected the Uluru statement, saying “every Australian already has equal rights"

New England,NSW

Barnaby Joyce

MARGIN: 23.6%

  • Key backer of the Adani mega mine and member of the Monash Forum for coal-fired power stations
  • Opposed Marriage Equality as 'against family values' while schtooping his Press Secretary
  • Cut protections allowing animals to cook to death on live export ships
  • Accused of tilting Murray-Darling Authority towards irrigators' interests

Aston,VIC

Alan Tudge

MARGIN: 8.6%

  • Spearheaded cuts to income support payments
  • Called our social safety net “poison”
  • Leaked sensitive private information of innocent Centrelink recipient to media during Robodebt scandal
  • Architect of the university-level English language test for Australian citizenship

Robertson,NSW

Lucy Wicks

MARGIN: 1.1%

  • Supported the Medicare GP co-payment
  • Voted to cut penalty rates to low paid workers
  • Voted 27 times to block a Banking Royal Commission

Moncrieff,QLD

Steve Ciobo

MARGIN: 14.6%

  • Dutton numbers man in leadership coup
  • Overturned a ban on government money financing coal mines
  • Objected to refugees from Manus and Nauru being resettled in New Zealand
  • Major backer of the TPP

Cook,NSW

Scott Morrison

MARGIN: 15.4%

  • Architect of Manus, Nauru and boat turnbacks
  • Cut $84m from our ABC
  • Berated school strikers and told kids to “be less activist”
  • Tried to subject people receiving income support to humiliating tests
  • Did not vote for Marriage Equality

Canning,WA

Andrew Hastie

MARGIN: 6.8%

  • Tony Abbott's protege
  • Strong backer of laws to criminalise peaceful protest
  • Did not vote for Marriage Equality
  • Believes women should not be allowed to fight on frontline, and said “close combat is best preserved when it's exclusively male”

Dawson,QLD

George Christensen

MARGIN: 3.4%

  • Associates with extreme racist groups like Reclaim Australia
  • Joined the Monash Forum to stop the “demonisation of coal”
  • Posed with a gun, threatening “greenie punks”
  • Did not vote for Marriage Equality

Hume,NSW

Angus Taylor

MARGIN: 10.2%

  • Campaigns against wind farms and the Renewable Energy Target – as Energy Minister
  • Singled out African-Australians fo racist attacks during the Victorian election
  • Wants to give spy agencies backdoors to encrypted information
  • Touted as a future PM

Grey,SA

Rowan Ramsey

MARGIN: 1.9%

  • Campaigning to build a nuclear waste dump in South Australia
  • Backs oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight
  • Supported cuts to penalty rates

Hughes,NSW

Craig Kelly

MARGIN: 9.3%

  • Key Abbott ally
  • Renowned climate skeptic and member of the Monash Forum
  • Endorsed Donald Trump’s travel ban for people from Muslim-majority countries
  • Subverted democracy to save his preselection when he lost support of branch members

Deakin,VIC

Michael Sukkar

MARGIN: 5.7%

  • Dutton numbers man in leadership coup against Malcolm Turnbull
  • Called moderates in his party “termites” and pledged to crush them
  • Said a "highly paid job" is the solution to housing affordability
  • Did not vote for Marriage Equality

References

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton caught joking about the effect of climate change on Pacific islands, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 September 2015

Tony Abbott considering police-in-schools policy for remote Indigenous communities, ABC News, 1 November 2018

Here's Tony Abbott Cracking A Joke About “Invasion” In A Classroom Full Of Indigenous Kids, Junkee, 3 November 2018

Tony Abbott's climate change speech in London reveals his true self, ABC News, 11 October 2017

Kevin Andrews attacks assisted death deal, The Australian, 27 June 2018

Let’s Talk About Kevin Andrews and the Fact Australia Hasn’t Swapped PMs in 205 Days, Vice, 7 April 2016

The religious minority seizing power in the Liberal Party, The Age, 3 June 2018

Kevin Andrews’ immigration crusade, Crikey, 21 July 2008

MPs open new front against Turnbull over same-sex marriage plebiscite funding, The Guardian, 12 September 2016

Family First, conservative Christians join the Victorian Liberals, The Age, 2 December 2016

Christian Porter defiant on Centrelink's 'robodebt' flaws: 'This is not a matter for apology', The Guardian, 22 June 2017

Liberal MPs Tony Pasin and Nicolle Flint attacked for ‘disloyalty’, Adelaide Now, 27 April 2018

Lib MP Nicolle Flint growls at BEAR, calls it bank bashing, Australian Financial Review, 5 February 2018

Nicolle Flint: It’s time hold our public broadcaster, the ABC, to account, Adelaide Now, 14 July 2014

Pyne: I’ll take your seat if mine goes in redistribution, The Australian, 27 October 2017

Nicolle Flint: Wouldn’t you prefer to be a woman who can say I’m in this role because I was the best?, Adelaide Now, 22 December 2014

Australia scrubbed from UN climate change report after government intervention, The Guardian, 27 May 2016

We're paying $834 million more for health insurance but getting less, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 November 2018

How making water safe from lead poisoning could cost households billions, Daily Telegraph, 26 November 2018

Katherine mayor labels Greg Hunt ‘misogynist’ after f-bomb tirade, Herald Sun, 31 May 2018

My Health Record's privacy chief quits amid claims agency 'not listening', Sydney Morning Herald, 9 November 2018

Coalition to allow government-backed loans to coalmines as banks hesitant, The Guardian, 11 September 2017

Sending refugees to New Zealand 'a giant magnet' to people smugglers, Ciobo says, The Guardian, 4 November 2018

The return of Joyce is the final insult to an angry electorate, Crikey, 18 October 2018

'These guys are crazy': Barnaby Joyce backs 'Nazi' expulsions after backtrack, The Guardian, 2 November 2018

Australia says yes and Barnaby Joyce refuses to vote in Parliament of Australia, Inverell Times, 8 December 2017

Forget Barnaby Joyce's affair - this is why he should not return to the leadership, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 October 2018

Live exports: Barnaby Joyce said most sheep arrive fine or in better condition, Northern Daily Leader, 16 October 2018

AFP drops Alan Tudge investigation over Centrelink information leak, ABC News, 8 May 2017

Welfare dependency 'poison' for jobless, human services minister says, The Guardian, 26 May 2017

Centrelink cashless welfare card trial costing taxpayers $10,000 per participant, ABC News, 2 May 2017

Lucy Wicks, Open Australia

Australia, we need to talk about Sunday penalty rates, says Frydenberg, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 September 2015

Frydenberg takes on GetUp campaign to block energy plan, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 July 2018

Frydenberg and Abbott bump heads over energy policy, The Guardian, 29 May 2018

Q&A: Indigenous Australians are tired of being spoken for, says actress Shareena Clanton, ABC News, 20 February 2018

Scott Morrison's foul bet on torture, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 June 2014

Charities, unions and arts bodies win reprieve from foreign influence register, The Guardian, 25 June 2018

Former Army officer turned MP Andrew Hastie agrees with Bernardi, Australian Conservatives, 7 February 2018

Andrew Hastie's use of US intelligence over bribery allegation 'a concern', Dreyfus says, The Guardian, 24 May 2018

Coalition backbenchers unite to lobby for coal under banner of Monash Forum, The Guardian, 3 April 2018

George Christensen reported to police over gun photo aimed at 'greenie' rivals, The Guardian, 19 February 2018

A front door, not a back door: Dutton’s decryption laws explained, SBS News, 26 November 2018

Melbourne has a ‘law and order’ problem: Angus Taylor, Courier Mail

Coalition could indemnify new coal projects against potential carbon price, The Guardian, 24 October 2018

National low-level nuclear waste dump earmarked for Barndioota, near Wilpena Pound, Adelaide Now, 29 April 2016

Communities at the centre of the radioactive waste management debate benefit from "goodwill" funding, The Transcontinental, 22 November 2018

MH17: Liberal MP Craig Kelly angers colleagues with comments on Russia's role in accident, ABC News, 19 June 2018

Five things to know about Craig Kelly, the conservative Liberal backbencher saved by Scott Morrison, ABC News, 3 December 2018

Coalition MP tasked with housing affordability says 'highly paid job' is 'first step' to home ownership, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 February 2017

Liberal MP Michael Sukkar pledges to crush party’s Left ‘termites’, Herald Sun, 23 April 2018

Michael Sukkar faces backlash over role in Liberal leadership crisis, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 August 2018