Lock the Gate

Where would you rather see our taxpayer money invested?

The Government wants to frack, but what does Australia want?

We’ve put together a letter you can sign below and add your ideas for the Federal Government on what they could do with our hard-earned tax dollars.

Please add your name and give us your ideas for where you’d rather see your tax dollars spent.

Petition text:

To Federal Parliamentarians, Ministers, Departments,

We are alarmed and disappointed to see the Federal Government now rolling out a suite of actions to prop up expensive and dangerous gas fracking across Australia without any proper public accountability.

As voters and concerned Australians, we ask that you hear our message - do not spend our money on gas fracking projects and big new gas pipelines.

Farmlands, water resources and the climate can’t afford to keep propping up polluting gas.

It’s time for Australia to grow stronger and tool up to embrace cleaner energy and storage.

There are a multitude of ways the Government could take a smarter approach to the Covid recovery. The Australian community has many ideas on how we can boost agriculture, tourism, First Nations opportunities, community health and disaster relief.

We know we can create jobs by genuinely supporting diverse Australian businesses, not throwing our money at the gas fracking industry.

We see huge opportunities to help Australia to get off polluting and expensive gas into the future, to modernise our power and heating and to save on gas and energy bills.

I ask that you oppose the measures being rolled out to fast-track gas fracking, including the ill-considered and secretive National Gas Infrastructure Plan, and take on board our ideas for how the money could be better spent.

Yours sincerely,

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What would you rather see money spent on?

Here are some ideas:

Helping Australian businesses get off gas
Funding community projects in your neighbourhood
Land stewardship programs
Supporting First Nations organisations and businesses working on country
Renewable energy projects and battery storage
Disaster relief

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Rene Stutz commented 2021-03-23 15:26:04 +1100
David Bacon commented 2021-03-23 15:26:01 +1100
Moira Bishop commented 2021-03-23 15:25:59 +1100

How about putting this money towards low cost solar energy support for families? For low incomes and young people?

Money towards environmental conversation education.

Recycle
John Dwyer commented 2021-03-23 15:25:46 +1100
S B commented 2021-03-23 15:25:40 +1100

Just STOP fracking NOW!
John Vaughan commented 2021-03-23 15:25:29 +1100

Renewable energy is the future and coal and gas only represent a future of devastated agricultural land and rising global temperatures. We owe it to our children to urgently address this issue before ongoing degredation becomes irreversible. Should the present government fail to recognise what industry increasingly has, then it and it’s leaders will be forever damned in the eyes of those who will suffer the consequences.
Jennifer Lehmann commented 2021-03-23 15:25:19 +1100
Jake Hennessey commented 2021-03-23 15:25:16 +1100
Mark Stephens commented 2021-03-23 15:25:03 +1100

Fracking is not the answer. Fracking is destroying my grandchildren’s future
Frances Winfield commented 2021-03-23 15:24:58 +1100

Victorians fought for years to get the total ban on fracking in our State. We will not face a gas-fired future. The government needs to provide alternative employment in clean industry – the changeover to renewable energy would provide thousands of jobs and give us cheaper electricity. South Australia is leading the way with 65% of their energy produced by renewables. We need to act now on climate change, not add to the problem by producing even more emissions.
Frank Chappell commented 2021-03-23 15:24:58 +1100

For Australia’s-sake no FRACKING!!!!! Whatever we sow we shall reap. Love the Great OZ. and not the mighty dollar that debases everything it touches. Support First Nations organisations and businesses working on country. We have absorbed enough corruptions in recent times; let’s expose it mercilessly. Expel careerists, reward probity. ETC.
V Chan commented 2021-03-23 15:24:58 +1100

It’s time to stop fracking!
Peter Youll commented 2021-03-23 15:24:55 +1100
Peter Stiphout commented 2021-03-23 15:24:49 +1100

Renewable energy
Jill Garsden commented 2021-03-23 15:24:36 +1100

Public money would be much more wisely and justly spent if, instead of supporting gas projects, it were invested in properly researched and managed land stewardship programs for both agricultural and wilderness areas, incorporating First Nations’ wisdom, people and practices into such land stewardship programs, facilitating the ability of communities to develop and utilize renewable energy projects suited to their particular needs, and research into and development of sustainable agricultural practices rather than massive corporate agricultural developments. Let us never forget that what is good for the planet is good for us, and that we cannot separate human well-being from environmental well-being.
Kath Fisher commented 2021-03-23 15:24:35 +1100
Katie Caban commented 2021-03-23 15:24:28 +1100

Presently we need to spend money on fixing the enormous infrastructure damage done during the present floods as well as ensuring that the people affected are housed and looked after.

We now have urgent serious problems to address. Do not allocate funds to the gas fracking industry at a time when funding is urgently needed to support the seriously affected people of this country.

Thank you

Katie Caban
Ron Pyle commented 2021-03-23 15:24:23 +1100

We don’t want gas polution or greedy lieing polititions
Graeme Thompson commented 2021-03-23 15:24:18 +1100
Michele Schlosser commented 2021-03-23 15:24:05 +1100
Carolyn Bennett commented 2021-03-23 15:24:00 +1100
Gen Picot commented 2021-03-23 15:24:00 +1100
Anna Langford commented 2021-03-23 15:23:58 +1100

Subsidising retrofitting of housing for vulnerable people in communities, making their homes more efficient and insulated.
Tom Smallman commented 2021-03-23 15:23:56 +1100
Glenn McKenzie commented 2021-03-23 15:23:54 +1100
Jim de Vries commented 2021-03-23 15:23:50 +1100

Your letter is straight to the point well done
Suzy Flowers commented 2021-03-23 15:23:31 +1100

We need to remove tax-payer funds from propping up the Gas, Oil and Coal industries and invest that money in renewable energy.
Lisa Knox commented 2021-03-23 15:23:25 +1100
Damian Casserly commented 2021-03-23 15:23:11 +1100

Fracking is an ill-conceived process that can cause irreversible damage to the environment. I do not want any government money spent on it. Instead, spent the money on renewable energy projects or projects that will secure our fuel and food supplies.
John Travis commented 2021-03-23 15:22:57 +1100