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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. 

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,



Please add some comments.

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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Showing 30 reactions

  • Sera Koth
    commented 2021-03-31 15:26:20 +1100
    I would like to see my money spent:

    -Helping Australian businesses get off gas

    -Funding community projects in my neighbourhood

    -Land stewardship programs

    -Supporting First Nations organisations and businesses working on country

    -Renewable energy projects and battery storage

    -Disaster relief
  • Anne Boyd
    commented 2021-03-31 15:16:47 +1100
    The money should be spent on renewable energy projects and battery storage
  • Rebecca Kopke-Bennett
    commented 2021-03-31 14:55:02 +1100
    I cannot comprehend how you believe that fracking is a positive step when climate disasters are more apparent than ever. Not my government or PM.
  • Kelly Lee Hickey
    commented 2021-03-31 14:48:59 +1100
    We need solutions that plan for and protect our communities in a climate changed future. There are shovel ready projects in clean energy, particularly solar, that can support all of our communities into the long term. These are the projects our money should be going to, not the dying industries of gas, which threaten the futures of lands and people here and internationally.
  • Susan Tanner
    commented 2021-03-31 14:07:19 +1100
  • Deborah Ford
    commented 2021-03-31 13:56:30 +1100
    Fracking should not be permitted anywhere in Australia, whether publicly or privately funded.
  • Lisa Costello
    commented 2021-03-31 13:46:50 +1100
    Its been proven over and over again, fracking and coal seam gas extraction in dangerous
  • Dulcie Wardell
    commented 2021-03-31 13:39:36 +1100
  • Annette Browne
    commented 2021-03-31 13:22:38 +1100
    I would rather see the money spent on renewable energy projects and battery storage
  • Nicole Mutimer
    commented 2021-03-31 13:14:36 +1100
    No to fracking
  • Debris Facility
    commented 2021-03-31 12:57:20 +1100
  • Ian Price
    commented 2021-03-31 12:42:54 +1100
    I want to see scarce money allocated to more valuable activities.

    What would you rather see money spent on?


    For example:

    Helping Australian businesses get off gas

    Funding community projects in your neighbourhood

    Supporting First Nations organisations and businesses working on country

    Renewable energy projects and battery storage

    Vital Ongoing Disaster relief
  • Billee McGinley
    commented 2021-03-31 12:38:43 +1100
    I can see there is up to $50,000,000 available under the Australian Research Council Grants Scheme open now, specifically to accelerate exploration for shale gas in the Beetaloo Basin. This is a risky investment economically and environmentally. There are more sustainable economic investments that could be made in the region – renewable energy projects, carbon farming, environmental services – that would serve communities better, and future generations. Now is the time for fossil fuel companies to be looking at their exit plan. This is a waste of funds. Currently the government is putting millions of Australians into poverty, by bringing back down unemployment entitlements to below the poverty line, whilst you hand out millions to big business.
  • Sam Boase
    commented 2021-03-31 12:37:18 +1100
  • Kirstene Ost
    commented 2021-03-31 12:35:58 +1100
  • Anthony Czerniak
    commented 2021-03-31 12:27:58 +1100
    Proven environment wrecker
  • Jan Mikael Matunog
    commented 2021-03-31 12:20:42 +1100
    Say no to Fracking
  • Peter Huggins
    commented 2021-03-31 11:52:13 +1100
    No Fracking – No Way
  • Linda Mathew
    commented 2021-03-31 11:49:38 +1100
  • Ben Andrew Jackson
    commented 2021-03-31 11:48:02 +1100
  • Jennette Metcalfe
    commented 2021-03-31 11:40:05 +1100
  • Jill Taylor
    commented 2021-03-31 11:30:36 +1100
    To the people who support fracking : are you ignorant or perhaps entirely brain dead?


    BAN FRACKING !
  • Chris Ralston
    commented 2021-03-31 11:11:39 +1100
    Fracking is the criminal action against the people of Australia frack off
  • Pete Fraser
    commented 2021-03-31 11:10:21 +1100
    I agree with the government’s plan to expand fracking, it is safe and we need it for energy stability
  • Sandy Morse
    commented 2021-03-31 10:15:44 +1100
    BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN Fracking

    utilise our natural resource, be smarter renewable sustainable energy for power
  • Marion Brooks
    commented 2021-03-31 09:55:41 +1100
    Just Ban FRACKING .
  • Dianne O'Neill
    commented 2021-03-31 09:49:30 +1100
  • Steve Harris
    commented 2021-03-31 09:43:35 +1100
    Should have propped up our manafacturing not destructive fracking
  • Wendy Mcwilliams
    commented 2021-03-31 09:33:51 +1100
  • Alissa Thivakon
    commented 2021-03-31 09:30:03 +1100