Thanks for signing up to survey your community as part of the #StopAdani Challenge.
Together we can turn the pressure up a notch on our elected representatives. Download the full #StopAdani Challenge toolkit now or check out the simple steps below to start your challenge
Get your local action group together or start a new group with friends, family and neighbours locally. Invite people over for a coffee, dinner or a movie night. Get them fired up about Adani and ask them to help you complete the #StopAdani Challenge.
If you're looking for like-minded people to complete the #StopAdani Challenge, consider hosting a screening of the 30-minute documentary 'Guarding the Galilee' to get members in your local community informed and fired up about Adani.
Follow these steps to find the information you’ll need about your MP for all future advocacy activities. Do it as a group and distribute the tasks.
Aim to survey at least 100 people in your electorate. It’s fantastic if you can survey a larger sample in that time - but the main thing is to have a reasonable result to take to your MP in during their winter break from parliamentary sittings in July.
Your community survey should include these five questions:
First, choose when and where you’ll survey. You could survey your neighbours directly outside your MP’s office; outside your local shopping centre; in your workplace; on the sidelines of the weekend footy; at your next church gathering - or whatever else you can come up with!
Print off plenty of copies of this datasheet to record results of your survey. There are 4 to a page so 15 double sided copies will give you space for 120 survey results.
If you’ve taken the challenge as an individual, invite a friend or family member to come along and help with the survey. If you’re a community action group, post a message to your Facebook group or email list and invite people to survey the community with you.
Bring a #StopAdani sign or placard (or wear a t-shirt if you have one) so people can clearly see what you’re about. You can pick up an action pack or t-shirt in the online shop.
Make sure you ask to record people’s contact details - their responses will be confidential, but in providing contact details, you can get back to them with the overall results of the survey, any response from your MP, and opportunities for local action.
You’ve surveyed your community. Now it’s time for some basic arithmetic!
You’ll need to tally up the answers to the first three questions, checking that for each answer, you get the same overall total. For example:
|
SUPPORT answers |
OPPOSE answers |
TOTAL |
Question 1 |
17 |
125 |
142 |
Question 2 |
27 |
115 |
142 |
Question 3 |
97 |
45 |
142 |
Then, calculate percentages. If your maths is a bit rusty, for the example above, this means:
Next up, select the most powerful statements given for Question 4. These are people’s messages for their MP. Present the best messages alongside your survey results to your MP.
Drop your survey results into this template - this will form part of the briefing pack you will deliver to your MP in person, and you can organise an online action too for local supporters to send this through to your MP with a personalised message.
When you have your results, share them with us at [email protected] - that way we can tell the big story of the overall results of all the surveys in all the electorates.
You’ve done the survey and tallied your results. Next up is planning how and when to deliver your survey results to your MP - and making your voice heard!
For individuals planning to drop off your survey results:
For groups planning a loud and noisy community event to deliver your results:
The day before
On the day
Do you need some background into the campaign? Want to know how to run an online survey? Need some extra support in running a community event?
Download our #StopAdaniChallenge toolkit for all this and more.