Media Releases
Clean Up the Political Pigsty Qld, or the Sadie Ladies will do it for you
July 24, 2014
Look out politicians – the Queensland Sadie Ladies are looking to clean up anything that might need a spit and polish so there’s more transparency in deals that are done here. Five Wide Bay Burnett women and one handy man took to the streets...
Read MoreToowoomba health forum on impacts of coal dust
July 23, 2014
Darling Downs residents will demand Campbell Newman listens to their concerns about coal dust at a public health forum in Toowoomba tomorrow night. The Premier, after the LNP’s devastating result in the Stafford by-election, said he’d got the message loud and clear that Queenslanders...
Read MoreSantos’ Pilliga exploration approval leave serious water problems unresolved
July 22, 2014
Farmers and concerned members of the public in the north-west of New South Wales say the approval by the NSW Planning and Assessment Commission of more exploration drilling in the Pilliga forest will exacerbate conflict over the protection of water, since it has been...
Read MoreCampbell Newman should start acting now if he’s really listening: Lock the Gate
July 21, 2014
If Campbell Newman wants to show he is listening to the people of Queensland, he should immediately announce his government will not accept any expansion of the Acland open cut coal mine, says Lock the Gate Alliance.
Read MoreGas price rise impacts highlight failure of regulatory authorities to act in national interest
July 21, 2014
The Queensland Government approved the Gladstone LNG and QGC Queensland Curtis LNG projects without any cost benefit analysis despite this being a requirement of the EIS process, a whistleblower revealed today. Former Government worker turned whistleblower Simone Marsh said the Queensland Coordinator General signed...
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