Rightwing lobby group Advance says it makes ‘no apology’ for support given to anti-Greens groups | Advance Australia

The right -wing Advocacy Group set that it pays for election materials that attack vegetables for use by third -party groups during the election campaign.

A spokesman for “Advance works with hundreds of volunteers from dozens of community groups to defeat the vegetable candidates and we do not apologize.”

“We are fully paying the price of green campaign materials to be at the disposal of the volunteers,” said ADVANCE spokesman who did not finance the groups directly, but “We are completely paying the price of green campaign materials to be at the disposal of the volunteers.”

This includes 2m leaflets, thousands of shirts and corridors.

“Once again, we don’t apologize.”

The group’s plan to focus its election campaign on Reducing vegetable vote It was not a secret. ADVANCE CEO, Matthew Shihan, claimed in an e -mail in February to its supporters that they already raised $ 7.6 million to “destroy the vegetables” and about two million dollars to target employment. The group spent more than $ 200,000 last week to promote jobs from Facebook pages with names such as “Greens Truth”.

But she publicly did not speak about the extent of its support for other anti-Green groups, including those taking an exception to the party’s position in the Israeli war-Gaza war or on renewable energy.

The type of assistance provided by two groups of the Jewish call was revealed in a forum hosted by the Australian Jewish Association (AJA).

Simon Aneen from J-RITD, who was carried against the Greens in Brahran Banklash, said that her group had continued to apply to start her campaign.

She said, “It was great, effective, strategy and good resources.” “They have provided pilots, shirts, shirts, and shipping everything to Melbourne, which helps us hit the ground.” And the applicant, the applicant, said for a picnic to thank the volunteers.

During the Queensland state elections last year, the QJC Jewish group also focused on Greens voting in Brisbane seats such as Maiwar and Moggill. One of the group’s managers, Rose Mendel, told the AJA forum that QJC spoke with progress after seeing her work during the campaign against the original voice to Parliament.

“When it is time … to do something against the vegetables here in Brisbane, I knew who was resorting to, “claiming that progress remained” a healthy distance “while the campaign was present. According to the event invited Guardian Australia, QJC held a volunteer event with progress in February.

Mendel is the participation director of a new group, the IMPACT (MIC) minority alliance, which has Billboard campaign started Against work and vegetables in multiple cases.

During aja surrounding, Mendel showed a picture of an advertising plate that was paid by QJC saying: “The Greens: It has changed to the worst.”

“This is also inspired by the advanced correspondence,” she said. “But from there, we gained our foot, and we decided to talk about the truth.” MIC uses the same mobile phone advertising board

On the other hand, Advance also used content of groups such as J-Road on social media, and the exchange of pictures of them “Members of the local popular base community” On the Greens Truth Facebook page.

The potential electoral impact of the anti -greenery strategy is still somewhat far. The vegetables carry only four seats in the lower home, including The three they won in Brisbane in the last elections seem weak. They have six Senate members for his re -election. On the contrary, six new independent deputies were elected in 2022 – if they occupied these seats or even increase their numbers, they may be expected to have a greater opinion in the event of a suspended parliament.

“They have clearly reached how to shoot people conservative enough to throw money on them, and the way to do this is to attack the vegetables,” said Peter Lewis, CEO of Essential, who is conducting qualitative search for Alp. “But it will not do anything to help the liberals strengthen wild duck seats.”

“Our campaign against vegetables will not defeat Teals because it was never supposed. We have been clear during the past eighteen months that our focus on the vegetables these elections,” said Advance spokesman.

“Our goal is to just expose vegetables so that people do not vote in their favor … the partial benefit will be that we believe that this will also reduce the vote of wild ducks.” The area of ​​this claim was unclear.

Anti -renewal

Advance also focused on the movement of anti -renewal, as it appeared in “Energy Forums” throughout the country and the events held by the groups that it created to oppose the launch of marine winds and solar energy.

As the Australian goalkeeper PrecededThe Facebook Bourke spokesperson is active in dozens of local Facebook groups and pages that oppose renewable projects in places such as Lake Borumba and Mount Fox in Queensland, and sharing the pre -content regularly.

Bourke is a regular speaker in these gatherings and events-unusually for the outfit, which generally avoids a general confrontation.

Grant PIPER is the former national rational energy network (NRR), which brought together community groups opposing renewable energy projects and hosting events, including Renewable energy sources gather In Canberra last year.

This is where Piper met for the first time. “We have not tied any official knot, but we can tell us that we are pressing after the same when it comes to the renewable energy award,” Piper said.

He said that Nesrin, who was renamed as we let us rethink renewable energy sources, had discussions with progress “along the way”, although it remained independent. Burke, one of the original Neren members, is now ADVANCE and faced his campaign against vegetables.

According to Biber-who appeared in advance anti-renewal Dollars and destruction Video Series – The Organization is a natural ally of groups that you feel are often excluded from the conversation taking place in Parliament and the media.

He said: “Progress helps advertising for people at the level of al -Qaeda who have been closed from everything.”

Among the others who collaborated in the Greens Truth campaign are groups that came out of the Anti-Revenge Movement, the Freedom and Democracy Party in Australia- The potential volunteers explain Their details will be shared with progress.

Another member of Nerreen and a former candidate in the nation, Katie McClicomMC was in “Rally Greens Rallly” in Brisbane in late March, where QJC also appeared. Along with other juvenile supporters, such as the liberation candidate, Jim Wilmut, she thanked Burke and advanced to help them in this event.

And she said: “If our other good colleague Sandra Burke … from progress he jumped, this day will not happen.”

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