$ pouring to GetUp for Canning campaign - solar a big issue

The Solar industry has announced it's pulling out all stops in the Canning by election in Western Australia, and GetUp has money pouring to it for it's GetUp campaign there; one of the biggest aspects of that being the solar issue and Abbott's war on the sun.

This is very effective grass roots campaigning. A far cry from Handrew Hastie's blithering blind meaningless love fest for Abbott.

You can donate to the GetUp campaign here if you like.

This is the email: 

In one of the biggest fundraising efforts of the year, GetUp members are piling in to make the Canning by-election a day of reckoning for Prime Minister Abbott's conservative agenda, and his relentless attacks on our clean energy future. 

In just 18 days, Canning could go from a super safe Liberal seat to an LNP loss in a knife-edge by-election. And with the 12th highest solar uptake in the country, Canning has been transformed into a key fighting ground for clean energy candidates. 

Polling shows that clean energy is a serious vote-shifter in Canning, which means that this by-election is our chance to put the writing on the wall: Australians are sick of a government that puts the vested interests of big polluters at the expense of our Reef, our climate, and investment in clean energy and renewables jobs. 

We've already locked in two billboards and digital ads across multiple platforms, but we're still scrambling for some prime local newspaper advertising, which could see our messages land in the laps of 56% of Canning voters. 

Can you chip in to get game-changing renewables ads in front of Canning voters, combining the impact of massive billboards with full page local newspaper ads, and targeted digital advertising? 

Even senior Liberal Party leaders admit that a loss like this would be a clear rebuke to Mr Abbott's non-stop horror show of bad policy – one that could very well cost him his job. Will you help send shockwaves through the government in Canning? 

Thanks for being a part of it, Nat, Mark, Kajute and Sam L, for the GetUp team  contribute here

Whether The Lieberals loose Canning remains to be seen, but one thing is for sure - the 12% safety margin is going to take a real hammering.