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This Is The GetUp! Ad Harvey Norman Doesn’t Want You To See.

From GetUp!: “Harvey Norman has been caught red handed by undercover environmental investigators selling furniture that fuels the destruction of Australia’s native forests.”

Incredibly, our new TV ad that shows what Harvey Norman are doing to our environment has just been banned from commercial TV by the industry body that classifies ads – because they’re scared of what Harvey Norman might do next. So while Harvey Norman spend over $100 million a year on ads – our community movement has been blocked from spending a cent.

Can’t stop the interwebz though.

MORE: http://noharveyno.net/

Comments

  • RAYY

    Look just like the block next door being cleared for a MacMansion

  • bonoho-sydney

    ye ye we heard all that before, wy don’t you tell us to blame at all on the puplic that buy their goods over the internet.
    big money big mouth big dickhead.

  • buckleup

    Gerry is booked in to be on Sunrise tomorrow to answer his critics regarding this issue. Should be good.

    My only question is, if it wasn’t our forests, wouldn’t it just be some other country’s wood?

  • vaestanfors

    China makes rubbish to begin with and when they get our raw materials they still make rubbish yet we get charged top dollar for it. Australia is one big rip off run by a bunch of convicts.

  • denis mulheron

    gerry harvey employs people not like you lot a bunch of unwashed dope smoking unemployed rat bags proberly poofs and dykes too you people should be shot trying to damage the economy

  • paula bennett

    gerry harvey is a fine businessman employing people spending in australia the green lunatis fringe would have us living in caves my husband drives a 4wd i drive a v8 we always vote liberal climate change is crap the lefties new god

    • Andrew Martin

      Why is it that the right wing lunatic fringe can’t spell? Serious question.

      Can you spell B-O-G-A-N though? You don’t need a long neck to be a goose love. It might be a good idea to use a pseudonym (that’s similar to an alias if you were unsure) when posting on the web, as using your real name just tells others in a loud voice that you are an idiot.

  • denis mulheron

    do you only publish comments that agree with you or did i touch a nerve can,t handle the truth oh well go have another joint or suck off your boyfriend you bunch of fuckwit commos

    • Jess McGuire

      I had an appointment and wasn’t online to approve reader feedback, you deeply embarrassing fucktard. Given the quality of your insights into this issue (“aged aids infested faggot” – what wit! Because Bob Brown is gay!) I obviously should have located some extra funds (my new bong fund jar?) and employed someone to monitor this post closely while I was away from the computer so they would be ready to approve your brilliance the second it appeared in our pending comments list.

  • denis mulheron

    gerry harvey is not an aged aids infested faggot like your leader bob brown

    • Andrew Martin

      Unfortunately the internet has allowed for the unwashed, uninformed, uneducated and clearly legally retarded to have a voice where once they were kept nicely in the dark. Some good advice for you – get a basic education and learn to write above a 4th grade level. Then, use this internet thing to do some research before reminding the world how much of a circus clown you are.

      People like you are literally too stupid to insult.

  • orbs

    Harvey Norman don’t like being shamed.Cheap made furniture manufactured from our quality timber so they can rip us off with top prices. Why don’t they get it made in Australia? What a hypocrite when they are squealing about internet purchases
    from overseas.

  • matt

    Being that Getup has backed the BAD GILLARD Government and pushed for a massive carbon tax and a massive mining tax and the destruction of the Australian manufacturing sectors and the mass destruction of the mining industry that has kept Australia afloat during a world recession what credibility does GETUP or any activist group attached to them have. GETUP would see hundreds of thousands of Australian jobs go overseas leaving thousands to loose the homes and drive our economy into the toilet.
    Getup is a activist organisation that is out of control and lacks any substantial credibility in its actions. If Getup and those other groups its sides with had any sense of being patriotic hell would have frozen over by now, they are for Australia’s future like the Al qaeda. Seriously they back a bad government, bad policy, and bad activists groups that used to be called just that activist groups that now try to label themselves as scientist, but don’t have the degrees or education to back their claims. GETUP is just a bad organisation of over the top out of control activists with nothing better to do, than act in a manner, which would see our economy fail and thousands and i mean hundreds of thousands of Australian jobs go overseas. If GETUP had any credibility they would have come out against the bad Gillard Government, being that the back the biggest assassin of the Australian mining industry BOB BROWN and the Biggest Assassin of the Australian manufacturing sector BOB Brown getup has no credibility left what so ever, just a bad organisation and they should be ridiculed and Australians should turn away from this Getup organisation who’s leader is obviously against Australians having jobs and a viable long term future backed by a great economy. GETUP as bad as Gillard and Backed by BOB BROWN what a disgrace.

  • Josh

    Australia today is looking more and more like a fractured society. Left and right camps are increasingly fighting each other.. civil war tomorrow.

  • %).

    Please enjoy a quick overview of GetUp;

    GetUp is the Australian counterpart to George Soros’ MoveOn.org in the United States. The two co-founders of GetUp, Harvard graduates Jeremy Heimans and David Madden, both worked for the Soros-funded MoveOn.org in the U.S. to also launch the global web “movement”, Avaaz.org. Madden was previously a consultant to the World Bank and Heimans previously consulted for the UN, OECD and ILO. And when GetUp suddenly popped up in 2005, this “people’s organisation” boasted among its founding board members: John Hewson, former federal opposition leader, former Macquarie Bank Executive Director, and Trilateral Commission member; Don Mercer, a mining chief, former ANZ CEO, and a past Director of the Australian Institute of Company Directors; and Evan Thornley, the super-rich Labor Party money-bags who was also National Secretary of the Australian Fabian Society, to which belong all of the ALP’s leading advocates of population reduction—Julia Gillard, Bob Carr and Kelvin Thomson.

    Foreign billionaire hedge fund speculator, drug pusher and Nazi collaborator George Soros was, by his own admission, a witting participant in the Holocaust, as a Nazi collaborator with the extermination machine run by Adolf Eichmann in Soros’ native Hungary. In at least two television interviews, in 1994 and 1998, Soros freely admitted to his Nazi collaboration, and declared that he felt no guilt over his actions, or over the extermination of nearly a half million of his fellow Hungarian Jews. Even worse, he exulted in his autobiography that, “It was actually, probably the happiest year of my life—that year of German occupation. For me it was a very positive experience.”

    Soros went on to become an agent for the City of London, using his Quantum hedge fund as a political battering ram to smash nations and national currencies, under the personal direction of British cabinet minister Lord Malloch-Brown, a board member of the Quantum Fund.

    Aside from forcing British imperial economic policies such as free trade and deregulation onto targeted nations, Soros has used his ill-gotten loot to madly push the legalisation of hard drugs and euthanasia. And, on behalf of British geopolitical strategy, he has helped topple national governments by financing the creation of fake “grassroots” protest movements, such as the Ukrainian “Orange Revolution” and Georgian “Rose Revolution”, aimed at destabilising Russia. And GetUp is just one more fake “grassroots” movement.

    Look at the history.

    the revolution will not be televised…

  • isn’t GetUp the same people who did the Pro Carbon Tax ad with kate blanchet and that guy from the castle?

    funny you mention George Soros as well, i read somewhere that he was Obamas meal ticket also.

    wtf?

  • Hang in there guys… Law on their side doesn’t make it right and for them to use that as a righteous reason only shows them in there true colours. Keep it up… Just remember as you know already double verify all your data so they in the long run can’t use their weapons against you. Money and Power.

  • Adam

    Wow. I feel a bit sorry for Defamer after seeing the comments of their readership. Wow.

    BTW, read what GetUp members themselves are saying about the advertisement. They’re not happy.

    blog.getup.org.au/2011/07/04/latest-campaign-no-harvey-no/

    Interesting. I do think it was grossly unfair (and low fruit) to target HN when they’re not breaking any laws. Waste of time.

    But of course it’s not as sexy and headline-grabbing to actually lobby government to seek changes to the logging laws themselves. No, let’s attack a single company because it’s high visibility. It’s a worthy cause but a cheap shot that amounts to nothing much.. but lots of publicity for GetUp. Hey, call my cynical.

  • court of public opinion

    Is it fair to target high profile businesses?
    Reality: Democracy is the court of public opinion which is about peoples values as well as facts; Courts are the arbiters of fact.

    Reality: If we want change we must think strategically. That means turning the adversaries strengths (high profile) into a weapon against themselves; ie) Getup tagging their brand with their moral weakness.

    My only concern is that some of Getup’s positions are a bit simplistic and my confuse the ongoing evolution of intelligent policy, still they are not government policy.

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