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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Dan Beck commented 2021-03-23 15:12:29 +1100

Please save our countryside and spend money on renewables in the energy sector
Michael Van Leeuwen commented 2021-03-23 15:12:21 +1100
Patty Swain commented 2021-03-23 15:12:21 +1100
Marianne Dickson commented 2021-03-23 15:12:10 +1100
Tracey Whiting commented 2021-03-23 15:12:04 +1100
Karin Olah commented 2021-03-23 15:12:00 +1100

This money should be spent on Renewable Energy and Batteries
Clive Gilbertson commented 2021-03-23 15:11:59 +1100

Let’s see more government support for renewables and restoration of the Murray/Darling river system.
Hedy Blue commented 2021-03-23 15:11:59 +1100
Tim Forcey commented 2021-03-23 15:11:56 +1100

GET GAS OUT OF BUILDINGS / SAVE MONEY / SIMPLE HOME ECONOMICS

For homes and other buildings, all the money we spend on gas is WASTED!

Because there are cheaper ways to heat living spaces (with reverse-cycle air conditioners aka air-source heat pumps), and water (also with air-source heat pumps).

Air-source heat pumps extract free renewable heat from the air outside a home or other building. A good thing about free heat is that no one can bill you for it!

For example, the 26,000+ members at the My Efficient Electric Home facebook group are getting their homes off gas and saving money.

Home builders and developers can save money by NOT connecting homes to gas… an expensive and uneconomic fuel that we are better off no longer using.
Leonard Martin commented 2021-03-23 15:11:56 +1100

Non polluting renewables
Geoffrey Colwill commented 2021-03-23 15:11:52 +1100

Dear ScoMo – please Follow the science just like you did with COVID – Don’t go down in history as the PM who fracked our aquifers!
Jo Errey commented 2021-03-23 15:11:44 +1100

Transition to a green energy future and call an end to dangerous fracking
Anara Carroll commented 2021-03-23 15:11:41 +1100

I would particularly to see more support for First Nations people and organisations working on country. In my area, the Byron Shire, the cost of housing has risen so steeply due to Covid relocations that traditional custodians can no longer access housing at affordable prices.
Gina Corling commented 2021-03-23 15:11:41 +1100

renewable energy projects and battery storage.
Robert Wright commented 2021-03-23 15:11:38 +1100
Jacque Alway commented 2021-03-23 15:11:35 +1100
Colleen Finn commented 2021-03-23 15:11:31 +1100
Glenn Bourne commented 2021-03-23 15:11:29 +1100

I think that the money would be better spent on disaster relief, especially with the recent fires and floods that are presently devastating the country.
Sharne Vogt commented 2021-03-23 15:11:25 +1100

Renewable energy is the future, gas and the fracking required is total destruction of the landscape, it is not needed to move Australia forward
Katrina Glasgow commented 2021-03-23 15:11:24 +1100

Renewable energy technology

Protection and rehabilitation of lands for flora and fauna

Increase in money directed to better care for the elderly and disabled including veterans and families
Doug Tweed commented 2021-03-23 15:11:14 +1100
William Davis commented 2021-03-23 15:11:12 +1100

Renewable energy projects and battery storage

Disaster relief
Ian Dunwoodie commented 2021-03-23 15:11:09 +1100

Get into solar and don’t frack the Pilliga wilderness or valuable farmland and water aquifers.
antje dun commented 2021-03-23 15:11:06 +1100
Terrie Keogh commented 2021-03-23 15:11:04 +1100

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Claudette Wadsworth commented 2021-03-23 15:11:03 +1100
Michael Moller commented 2021-03-23 15:10:54 +1100
Jack Arnold commented 2021-03-23 15:10:52 +1100
John Kelly commented 2021-03-23 15:10:52 +1100
Sally Disler commented 2021-03-23 15:10:45 +1100

Instead of wasting money on the dying fossil fuel industry, plant more forests and revegetate the country that has been wrecked by deforestation, and harness the abundant solar energy we have available to us.