Talk:Simon Sheikh

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ALP membership

Article fails to mention Sheikh's 4 year ALP membership and subsequent attempt to deflect and minimize that connection. See following newspaper articles:

Greens' Simon Sheikh tried the ALP first; The Australian-11/04/2013
ACT Greens senate candidate Simon Sheikh was a financial member of the Labor Party from 2004 until 2008; The International News Magazine-11/04/2013
Greens candidate is ex-ALP man; The Canberra Times-11/04/2013

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Oxe10 (talk • contribs) 02:50, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

GetUp! connection

I removed the following paragraph as a case of WP:RECENTISM. I fail to see how it would be relevant given that it's about "an organisation that exists on paper but not in the real world. It doesn't have any money, any employees or has never done anything." [1] and the erroneous references have been immediately removed [2]. --ELEKHH^T 23:52, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

During the run-up to the 2013 federal election, GetUp! confirmed that Sheikh was the sole director and secretary of a wholly owned GetUp! subsidiary. Sheikh who had repeatedly denied any links to the organisation since becoming a candidate, said it was simply a paperwork error.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Raggatt, Matthew (2 August 2013). "'Never operational' GetUp! Sheikh-linked subsidiary has active website". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
^ "'Oversight' leaves Sheikh linked to GetUp!". ABC News (Australia). 2 August 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2013.

[1] Raggatt, Matthew (2 August 2013). "'Never operational' GetUp! Sheikh-linked subsidiary has active website". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 2 August 2013.

[2] "'Oversight' leaves Sheikh linked to GetUp!". ABC News (Australia). 2 August 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2013.

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