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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Helen Wright commented 2021-03-23 15:05:57 +1100
Lesley Hughes commented 2021-03-23 15:05:46 +1100

A topical use of this money is to use it to buy back housing etc on floodplains. Allow the floodplains to go back to doing their job of slowing water’s dash to the sea
Jean Chapman commented 2021-03-23 15:05:33 +1100
Georgia Whitney commented 2021-03-23 15:05:10 +1100

Fracking kills people, has irreversible effects on an already unstable climate, and destroys the natural beauty of our country which we regard so highly. Why would we want our hard earned tax dollars spent on this? Australia thrives on the economic value of tourism that we get for our pristine natural environment. Why destroy it for a quick buck?
Steve Posselt commented 2021-03-23 15:04:53 +1100

The money needs to go towards getting to zero carbon emissions by 2030
Neil McIntosh commented 2021-03-23 15:04:45 +1100
Jan Burow commented 2021-03-23 15:04:44 +1100
Russ Anderson commented 2021-03-23 15:04:37 +1100
Chante Harfield commented 2021-03-23 15:04:17 +1100

I grew up in a country that had pristine air, very clean rivers and lakes and no fracking. This time, PLEASE don’t only think of the profit and loss scenario but think of Australia and the Earth’s actual atmosphere. It needs to be maintained and YOU are it’s caretakers….

Please desist from this insane idea of fracking, for the good of Australia’s general populace.
David von Pein commented 2021-03-23 15:04:15 +1100

More gas fracking is plain stupid wrecks a lot of country polutes our precious underground water and chemicals & wastes it when it should be used to grow food but of cousre with all the wrong things being done the first question that should be asked is who is paying who behind the scenes , there is with out doudt to much graft and corruption going on ,, any gain is short term and not sustainable you cannot grow a cabbage with out water and land
Beverley Grant commented 2021-03-23 15:04:08 +1100

Don’t frack our country.
Marcel Arias commented 2021-03-23 15:03:52 +1100

I would rather see the funds spent on incentivizing the uptake of electric vehicle, as is undertaken across the rest of the world.
Rade Brcerevic commented 2021-03-23 15:03:50 +1100

i would like to se that my tax mone will be spend ONLY on renewable energy projects ( like community battery storage , electrification transport, helping farmers and First Nations organisations ) NOT on Any fosil fuel project .
Rohan Kilby commented 2021-03-23 15:03:44 +1100

How about we start with these

Helping Australian businesses get of 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

Instigating a carbon tax

Reducing land clearing and nutrient contamination in the Great Barrier Reef marine park catchment
Mike Robinson commented 2021-03-23 15:03:44 +1100

Your policies are failing. Small business and education are the backbone of any nation.
Neil Perry commented 2021-03-23 15:03:36 +1100
Julie Pannell commented 2021-03-23 15:03:28 +1100
Sarah Brennan commented 2021-03-23 15:03:18 +1100
Pam French commented 2021-03-23 15:03:00 +1100

How excited we would all feel if this amount of money was used to create sustainable industries in the Latrobe Valley! and create jobs for those to be made redundant!!

Also, future cleaning and closing gas pipes will be exorbitant!
Linda Shaw commented 2021-03-23 15:02:59 +1100
Tess Thompson commented 2021-03-23 15:02:59 +1100
Sonia Barr commented 2021-03-23 15:02:56 +1100

Please spend money on.. Biodiversity, Animal conservation, Water quality, effects of Farming, rainwater innovations, council composting facilities, better recycling management, repurposing industries, plastic alternatives, ocean and land clean up initiatives
Judy Hardy-Holden commented 2021-03-23 15:02:49 +1100

. Bringing home the Biloela family,

.supporting the disabled Australian boy whose family faces deportation

.Getting off NZ back with nasty ‘send home’ petty criminals eg 15 yo boy.

.Anything that enhances environmental outcomes over degradation

.clearer education against mystoginy (?) in general.
Maureen Davies commented 2021-03-23 15:02:29 +1100
Anita Cillessen commented 2021-03-23 15:02:09 +1100

No fracking – everyone it seems, except some politicians, knows how environmentally dangerous & a major health issue fracking is. Our indigenous community are the ones who know how to take care of the land & country. Have them as your advisers – they took care of this country without harming it for millions of years.
Sylvi Glasheen commented 2021-03-23 15:01:55 +1100

Please help to keep our country clean and green
Deborah Moran commented 2021-03-23 15:01:55 +1100
Nadine Cauvin commented 2021-03-23 15:01:49 +1100
Malcolm Ramage commented 2021-03-23 15:01:48 +1100
Maggie Megirian commented 2021-03-23 15:01:09 +1100

I’d rather see the money spent on renewable energy projects