Media Releases

March 28, 2015

Lock the Gate Alliance says the NSW election result shows voters in many regional electorates reject coal seam gas and have handed the Government a mandate to protect communities and water resources from mining.

March 27, 2015

Lock the Gate Alliance president Drew Hutton said he “supported wholeheartedly” all 20 of the recommendations of the Select Committee on Certain Aspects of Queensland Government Administration related to Commonwealth Government Affairs. Mr Hutton called on the ALP to reverse its opposition to recommendations...

March 23, 2015

World Water Day highlights sustainability problems  World Water Day on Sunday should give us pause for thought here on the driest continent on earth. But here in Queensland, preference is still given to mining and coal seam gas enterprises with limited life, over the...

March 22, 2015

Graziers in Queensland's remote Channel Country are calling for permanent, statutory protection for rivers, wetlands and floodplains."As far as we know, life can't exist without water,” said Dr Bob Morrish of the Cooper's Creek Protection Group, "It's entirely reasonable, sensible and logical to have...

March 20, 2015

The Lock the Gate Alliance says that the ALP’s promise to permanently ban coal seam gas in the Pilliga forest in North West New South Wales is a hugely significant and welcome commitment and has called on the Baird Government to give North West...