GetUp! is a Trojan horse; we all know that. Hiding inside is an oozing mess of rancidity.

So, we all cheered when South Australian Liberal Tony Pasin used a committee inquiry into the election to accuse GetUp! of “weaponising individuals to act against politicians the organisation disagreed with”.

“You come into communities, you razz people up, you train them in arts like bird-dogging and then you step back and say oh they’re not members of ours,” he said at a committee hearing this week.