'Hindsight is a wonderful thing': how GetUp's election campaign fell flat

In the wake of the Coalition’s shock victory, the tactics of the progressive activist group have come under scrutiny

After polls closed last Saturday night, volunteers from the activist group GetUp gathered at a bar on Brisbane’s southside and watched the election results roll in.

For months, an army of some 1,500 volunteers had been engaged in a bitter and expensive campaign to unseat the home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, from the marginal Queensland seat of Dickson on the city’s northside.

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