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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John Nolan commented 2021-03-23 15:33:54 +1100

Fracking is wilful destruction of our environment, our state, our nation, and, by observation of the damage it has caused overseas, must not be allowed here.

It is time our government grew up, stopped being pushed around by overseas multi-national corporations, and start working for we, the electors.

Those who support fracking will definitely NOT get my vote, nor votes of any I can encourage to stand for preservation of our bush!
Gilbert Grace commented 2021-03-23 15:33:46 +1100

Support active transport, with the cumulative and compounding benefits to mental physical and emotional health, by building more protected bicycle paths and wildlife habitat corridors in the Green Grid network. A good place to start would be to recognise and build the Sydney Green Ring (www.sydneygreenring.org) and to complete the Great Kai Mia Trail (Botany Bay Trail). Both of which are iconic trails that serve as recreation and transport options for a great proportion of Sydney’s potential bicycling communities.
Linda Harrison commented 2021-03-23 15:33:42 +1100

Please look at renewables and not contribute to further damage to the environment. Isn’t it possible to generate enough jobs from renewable energy projects.
Lalage Craig commented 2021-03-23 15:33:38 +1100

I would rather see my money being spent on aged care and the homeless!

Not on wrecking the environment.
Judy Best commented 2021-03-23 15:33:37 +1100
Bridget Carty commented 2021-03-23 15:33:34 +1100
Ruth Miller commented 2021-03-23 15:33:30 +1100

I would rather see taxpayers’ money spent on moving towards a zero-emissions future, including sustainable industry and renewable energy solutions. The money would be better spent in assisting businesses involved in gas to move into renewables.
Dianne Horne commented 2021-03-23 15:33:28 +1100

Renewable energy, disaster relief, more support for pensioners. I live in a gas field & it is horrible.
Carolyn Handley commented 2021-03-23 15:33:24 +1100
Geoff Andrews commented 2021-03-23 15:33:19 +1100

We need clean land, water, food and air.

We don’t need more climate change, more air pollution, more respiratory diseases, and more wasted money.
Robert Main commented 2021-03-23 15:33:17 +1100

Fracking is a bad investment , It spoils the land and water of the land that is fracked
Julie Griffith commented 2021-03-23 15:33:11 +1100

Fracking is detrimental in every way and please stop the money God worshipping, its so uncool and selfish.
Michael Stewart commented 2021-03-23 15:33:05 +1100
Mark and Jenny Edwards commented 2021-03-23 15:33:02 +1100
Mike Patterson commented 2021-03-23 15:32:57 +1100

Remediation of agricultural land that has been adversely effected by fracking instead of making a known"unsafe and not sustainable" gas fracking industry more profitable by public monies. In the longer term agriculture will be more beneficial both economic and environmental than the depleted land despoiled by fracking.

Renewable energy is the power source of the future so must, logically, be progressed as has been shown overseas.

Disaster response facilities and staffing will gain more importance as global warming increases floods, fires, droughts and storms on larger scale across Australia.
Eric Meijer commented 2021-03-23 15:32:54 +1100

Promote the uptake and expansion of green hydrogen, a clean fuel in which Australia has a potentially great competitive advantage.
Robert Morison commented 2021-03-23 15:32:47 +1100
Kate Barnes commented 2021-03-23 15:32:42 +1100
Patrick Lynch commented 2021-03-23 15:32:33 +1100
Sylvia Cooper commented 2021-03-23 15:32:26 +1100

Please don’t waste our money on polluting and environmentally destructive fracking for gas that we don’t need or want. We need to heal, not destroy the planet and that means clean fuel and healthy, sustainable habitats. That’s what I want my taxes spent on.
Sally Cloke commented 2021-03-23 15:32:22 +1100
Catherine Sacco commented 2021-03-23 15:32:19 +1100
Evan Hadkins commented 2021-03-23 15:32:16 +1100

Early childhood support (for children and their carers). This saves multiples of the money spent in the long term.
Lois Hamlin commented 2021-03-23 15:32:14 +1100
Marion Glover commented 2021-03-23 15:32:11 +1100

- 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
Janet Roden commented 2021-03-23 15:32:10 +1100

Land stewardship programs. Supporting First Nations organisations and businesses working on country. Disaster Relief = these 3 things are important at the moment.
Triny Roe commented 2021-03-23 15:32:09 +1100

No more fracking. Spend the money on renewable energy, land stewardship and supporting First Nations people in all their endeavors.
Marilyn Valli commented 2021-03-23 15:32:06 +1100

I’d love to see you spend these funds on:

- Land stewardship programs

- Supporting First Nations organisations and businesses working on country

- Renewable energy projects and battery storage

- Disaster relief
carolyn ienna commented 2021-03-23 15:32:03 +1100
Patrick Sloan commented 2021-03-23 15:32:00 +1100

Some ideas for better and more responsible investment of taxpayer funds include:

1. Helping Australian businesses get of gas

2. Funding community projects

3. Land stewardship programs

4. Supporting First Nations organisations and businesses working on country

5. Renewable energy projects and battery storage

6. Disaster relief