GetUp to continue campaigning over Easter

Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten have agreed not to campaign on Good Friday and Easter Sunday but GetUp! will carry on regardless.

Left-wing lobby group GetUp! will continue campaigning for the May 18 federal election during the Easter holidays even though Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Labor rival Bill Shorten have agreed not to.

Mr Morrison said there shouldn't be political advertising on Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

"Bill and I agree about that," Mr Morrison told reporters in Sydney on Saturday.

"Will Bill tell his mates in the union movement to pull their heads in and do the same? It's fine for Bill to say he won't do it. It makes his commitment to this quite hollow."

Mr Shorten said he had written to the prime minister that Easter should be respected and that Anzac Day is also sacred to the nation.

But on the question of GetUp! campaigning, he said it is a "free country".

"I can't make everyone else do things ... they're independent," he told reporters on the Central Coast, NSW.


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