GetUp's Gamble: Can It Outmaneuver One Nation? GetUp, Australia's most influential progressive campaigning organization, recently staged a provocative banner drop at Pauline Hanson's National Press Club address.
This calculated risk aimed to shift the focus from Hanson's inflammatory rhetoric to her party's policies on workers' rights and industrial relations.
Ferris, acting chief executive of GetUp, believes that Australia has been slow to acknowledge the rise of populism, which has reshaped politics in Europe and the United States.