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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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Louise Merchant commented 2021-03-29 20:21:44 +1100

Renewable energy projects and battery storage
Elizabeth Odger commented 2021-03-29 19:39:12 +1100
Cathy Phillips commented 2021-03-29 19:36:11 +1100
Steve Mills commented 2021-03-29 19:18:34 +1100

We don’t want fracking and will remember at the next election!
Robert Cavanagh commented 2021-03-29 18:54:12 +1100
Felicity Davis commented 2021-03-29 16:44:07 +1100

Gas is still a fossil Fuel. It was thought that we could use it to transition from coal. We now know that it as bad as coal for the environment as it gives off methane when it is being fracked from the rocks. Not to mention the damage to the artesian water needed for agriculture. Methane is about 85 times worse as a greenhouse gas than CO2. It causes more melting of the ice in the Arctic and Antarctic. WE also now have the use of huge batteries to give us instant power when the sun and wind fail us. Therefore we no longer need to use gas to transition from coal and oil.
Natalie Bayley commented 2021-03-29 15:39:33 +1100

Renewable energy projects and battery storage have got to be the future
Kim Salisbury commented 2021-03-29 15:23:55 +1100
Andrew Bowman commented 2021-03-29 14:59:19 +1100

Please invest in anything but damaging gas fracking. The irreparable damage it will cause will not worth it, especially when we have so many safer alternatives available.
Blair Marks commented 2021-03-29 14:01:46 +1100
Martin commented 2021-03-29 13:40:24 +1100

NO FRACKING IN AUSTRALIA OR WE WILL VOTE U OUT
Susan Russell commented 2021-03-29 13:32:58 +1100
Garry Sadler commented 2021-03-29 13:21:37 +1100
Jacky Nissen commented 2021-03-29 12:55:08 +1100

Our hospitals are at capacity with many states suffering from extensive and crippling ambulance ramping. I suggest this would be a far better use of tax payers money.

We don’t need to put any of our extremely limited water supplies at risk of contamination by fracking.
Ian Mckenzie commented 2021-03-29 12:53:04 +1100

Renewable energy systems would be a much better investment of money
Ronny Cox commented 2021-03-29 12:51:17 +1100
Kevin Sweeney commented 2021-03-29 12:44:20 +1100
Amie Doyle commented 2021-03-29 12:17:16 +1100
Gordon Dyball commented 2021-03-29 12:12:29 +1100

Dam projects – drought proof the whole country
Gordon Dyball commented 2021-03-29 12:12:29 +1100

Dam projects – drought proof the whole country
Cheng Tan commented 2021-03-29 12:12:14 +1100

SA built their solar system and storage unit and is now happily providing power to SA. No pollution and degradation of land. So renewable energy and storage battery is what I like to see my dollars go to.
Garry Glover commented 2021-03-29 12:09:19 +1100

Let’s be world leaders in green hydrogen & clean transport. PLEASE let’s move Australia out of the fossil era.
Sarah Moles commented 2021-03-29 11:57:19 +1100

I personally would MUCH rather see money spent helping farmers transition to a carbon constrained world. With a worsening extinction crisis, it is time to start paying landholder for protecting and conserving the ecosystem services on which we all rely.

We have also seen natural disasters fueled by dangerous climate change. There is an urgent need for more money for disaster relief to allow affected people and communities to get back on the feet as soon as possible.
Sue Metcalf commented 2021-03-29 11:52:31 +1100

There are so many worthy alternatives to redirect this money to, but personally I would like to see more spent on housing for the homeless, especially for older women.
Kathleen Roche commented 2021-03-29 11:49:36 +1100
Bill Woinarski commented 2021-03-29 11:22:06 +1100

Most advanced countries, the smart money, science and engineering are moving towards a renewable energy future. We need leadership and commitment to embrace this future. It is no longer with fossil fuels.
Roslyn Irwin commented 2021-03-29 11:16:13 +1100

Fracking gas has no social licence as has been demonstrated many times. I do not want any public money – our money – spent on gas. I want to see public money spent on renewable energy to address climate change. This has to happen within the next 8 years or it will be too late. Please don’t let this happen.
Pauline Mitchell commented 2021-03-29 11:14:28 +1100

Government investment in renewable energy is vital because it gives greater service to the taxpayer. Like oil, gas is a finite resource. Wind and solar power are clean energies…. at least until our sun exhausts itself!

The money any government in Australia spends on energy should be to harvest and save energies which have longer life spans ie solar and wind using battery storage.

It would be better for Australia to be seen internationally as part of the avant guard of environmentalism than out of touch great-grandparents’!
Elizabeth Ellis commented 2021-03-29 11:14:24 +1100

Help Australian businesses get off gas
Slavka Gough commented 2021-03-29 11:13:00 +1100

Stop the killing for a profit!