Media Releases

July 21, 2015

Queensland Senator Glenn Lazarus will be keynote speaker at the Southern Downs on Saturday (July 25) when locals declare their wish for the region to become coal mine and gasfields free. Ninety-two per cent of residents in Goomburra, Allora and Berat voted against the...

July 20, 2015

Queensland Senator Glenn Lazarus will join an expert Q&A panel after the anti-CSG movie, Frackman in Brisbane on Wednesday night. Senator Lazarus joins Q&A panel host, reporter Mike Munro, Lock the Gate Alliance’s Drew Hutton, star of the movie Dayne Pratzky and Western Downs...

July 19, 2015

Residents of Fairfield and surrounding suburbs voted at a community meeting yesterday to make their suburb coal dust free for the sake of their health. They are concerned about the amount of coal dust blanketing their region already, and the threat of even more dust...

July 17, 2015

Darling Downs residents are looking forward to their day in court following today’s historic overturning of laws designed to stop them objecting to the devastating impacts they would face, should the Acland coal mine expansion go ahead. Members of the Oakey Coal Action Alliance...

July 15, 2015

Lock the Gate Alliance congratulates the Queensland Government for moving an urgent Bill in Parliament tonight to restore the rights of landholders and community members to object to major mining projects and to have those objections heard in the Land Court. The Bill will...