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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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Albert Zhou commented 2021-03-26 01:14:32 +1100

Financing the transition to a sustainable economy
Rosemary Nankivell commented 2021-03-26 00:52:53 +1100
Cristina Cilla commented 2021-03-26 00:38:25 +1100
Katherine White commented 2021-03-26 00:03:53 +1100
Megan Dallas commented 2021-03-25 23:47:02 +1100
Bobby Rosales commented 2021-03-25 23:18:02 +1100
Jaya Vaughan commented 2021-03-25 23:13:58 +1100
Julia Underhill commented 2021-03-25 23:11:28 +1100
Our money could be better spent on the following:

Helping Australian businesses get off gas

Funding community projects in local neighbourhoods

Land stewardship programmes

Supporting first nations organisations and businesses working on country

Renewable energy projects and battery storage

Disaster relief

We need to stop relying on ALL fossil fuels and instead concentrate our efforts and investments in finding and funding clean, safe, renewable, sustainable energy sources.

We also need to protect Australia’s most precious natural resource: WATER
tony judd commented 2021-03-25 23:05:37 +1100
Wendy Bartlett commented 2021-03-25 22:49:31 +1100
Suzy Manigian commented 2021-03-25 22:33:08 +1100

I deplore the waste of public money on follies like the incarceration of asylum seekers on Nauru and in PNG, on fossil fuels and corporate freeloaders. It makes me feel like the convict era with entitled wealthy parasites exploiting the misfortunes of others – the less rich and powerful – to line their pockets. The fossil fuel industry is a money laundering racket where public money is siphoned off to gas and coal corporations which then donate to political parties. I am ashamed of the way Australia is being governed.
Julie Lee commented 2021-03-25 22:28:21 +1100

Please consider spending the money to help Australian businesses transition away from a reliance on gas so that there is no need to even remotely consider fracking as a legitimate source of energy.
John Hain commented 2021-03-25 22:07:38 +1100

I would prefer to se the money spent on electric car infrastructure, renewable projects and battery storage.
Melinda Parkin commented 2021-03-25 22:07:24 +1100
Justine Webse commented 2021-03-25 22:04:31 +1100
Katherine Lindores commented 2021-03-25 22:00:57 +1100

Encouraging the use of low consuming appliance;

encourage manually processing food at home, fresh;

support first nation organisations and business on country;

helping businesses get off gas, and move into solar, using very efficient form of electricity in Australia;

looking after the forests, encouraging people to walk and explore on country, support, support tourist industrie;

, looking after the quality of air, and water, and therefore improving the well being of the population, the more time spent amongst nature and more likely to want to preserve it.
Myjenta Winter commented 2021-03-25 21:50:48 +1100
Belynda Leaver commented 2021-03-25 21:46:25 +1100
bobbie rossini commented 2021-03-25 21:39:15 +1100

Money spent on Disaster relief is an absolute necessity. And money towards alternative clean ways of energy. Water is precious. AFFORDABLE housing estates- rentals for people on LOW income Too many people are living in cars, on the street etc. When people have a clean roof over their heads they are more able to function thereby more able to contribute to society.
Ian Knight commented 2021-03-25 21:33:42 +1100
Yvonne Nota commented 2021-03-25 21:30:30 +1100

The fracking company’s are not interested in our or the landscapes health. They are purely driven by profit and greed!
Rodney Jones commented 2021-03-25 21:26:05 +1100

You wouldn’t frack in metropolitan areas , cities and burbs. Well don’t do it to us in the countryside
Soozie Wray commented 2021-03-25 21:24:13 +1100

Please go renewables! Fracking is so damaging and toxic to the environment!
Ann Ings commented 2021-03-25 21:22:40 +1100

We need to be keeping our water pure for the future. Money to the Murray River
Jane Smith commented 2021-03-25 21:20:52 +1100

CSG extraction is simply not worth the destruction of the environment it leaves behind
Toni Steinbrenner commented 2021-03-25 21:11:56 +1100

Renewable energy projects, schools and police are better projects than gas fracking
Greg Rogers commented 2021-03-25 20:48:22 +1100

disaster relief, funding community projects will have a distributed local effect.
Debbie Davis commented 2021-03-25 20:42:10 +1100

The money would be much better spent on supporting the alternative energy and recycling industries. More jobs and more money for research & development in these industries, which will benefit everyone. Rather than just pushing more money towards the already rich political donors!
Ben Stafford commented 2021-03-25 20:24:57 +1100
Sonia Foreman commented 2021-03-25 20:20:18 +1100

Just look at the disaster in the USA where fracking companies are going bankrupt and not doing cleanups and leaving land unusable.