Media Releases
Lock the Gate Monitors Candidates’ on Mining, Corruption and Fairness
January 19, 2015
Singing and dancing Queensland Sadies, and piggies with their snouts in money troughs heralded Lock the Gate’s candidates’ survey on mining, corruption and Queensland’s unfair political system, released today. Lock the Gate Alliance’s president, Drew Hutton officially released the survey on issues relating to...
Read MoreFarming community slams “mates rates” regulation for controversial coal mine
January 17, 2015
A broken promise from the last State Election and the future of an iconic farming town being swallowed by a coal mine haunts the Newman Government two weeks out from Election Day. In the lead up to the 2012 election the Liberal-National Party (LNP)...
Read MoreRevealed: Vast areas of farmland in hands of coal companies
January 17, 2015
New research by the Lock the Gate Alliance has revealed the scale of farmland and public land in New South Wales being bought by multi-national mining companies, including large areas of mapped strategic agricultural land in the Hunter Valley.
Read MoreNew film highlights community concerns about mining in Queensland
January 15, 2015
Wide Bay Burnett communities welcome the release today of a documentary highlighting the devastating impacts of mining in the region. The documentary, by Brisbane film-maker Mark Doyle and called Open for Business, includes interviews with residents and farmers describing their battle to keep their...
Read MoreNT’s iconic Kings Canyon under threat from frackers
January 09, 2015
Kings Canyon, one of the Northern Territory’s major tourist attractions, is under threat from fracking. Frack Free Coordinator for Central Australia Tanya Hall said it was concerning that oil and gas company Palatine Energy was seeking to drill and frack in the world-renowned Watarrka...
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