Do you have better ideas for $1 billion than propping up a new coal mine?

Australians to own and build the railway if it is to be built at least the profits will be there for future generations.
We have to much of our county sold to overseas investors, our children and grandchildren will not thank us.

Reforestation , investing in renewable energy, wind, solar, hydro a d finding alternative to single use plastics..Bring on the new way of thinking off with the old.

Provide solar panels for low income people because solar is a better energy solution

Spend it on renewable energy and conservation of our environment for future generations.

Solar wind water power

Renewable energy companies and r&ad for renewables

By not destroying the Barrier Reef.

You could put the money into solar green energy.

Offer all households with gardens or access to nature strips, seeds, seedlings and mulch and training. Encourage food production for the family, community, trees to reduce the heat island effect, natives for wildlife or flowers for pollinators.

Outcome: exercise, connection with nature, healthier diets, carbon sequestration, neighbourlyness, etc.

Instead of digging a coal mine, the Government could build a huge solar array with wind farms and huge banks of trees to help to combat climate change, Also, money could be used to green up areas left bare by deforestation.

Properly fund all levels of PUBLIC education- preschools, primary, high schools and universities!

Public infrastructure to get cars off busy roads and link communities, public education and hospitals.

Fund Newcastle University’s groundbreaking printable solar panels. No new coal.

Better way to spend $1 billion dollars is on renewable energy (solar, wind, tidal) and fixing our NBN internet disaster.

I would use the money to help all the struggling things in our country e.g. people living on the streets or unable to afford rent,native flora and fauna under siege due to land clearing and over development or threatened to extinction,education on the environment and climate change, renewable energy our farmers.
I am sure it would be very easy to find hundreds of better uses for$1 billion dollars of public money.
Kind Regards
Roz Scoles

Spend the money on…. Preserving our Environment by: allowing scientists and environmental experienced people that have been promoting their videos for years or respect public speakers whom understand what’s important by Creating awareness . We need to develop user friendly ways eg.. disguarding all soft plastics…. polluting habits replaced with A 21st Century approach… We need to CHANGE….. It’s not about having or feeding personal material wealth, but sustaining NATURE with a changed attitude as this is what we need to embrace and invest in, if we are to have a chance for all small industries to survive which are the backbone of this beautiful country… Let’s not continue treating this land like a continual wasteland in western modern living which In reality continually causes negative outcomes…The education is out there and we need to take heed of the unimaginable to worsen…. For starters Coal Mining has no grounds for future investment in terms of a healthy and sustainable lifestyle option…. If we to agree To Coal Mining, Its agreeing to temporary jobs and back to square one, a vicious cycle so why aren’t we training for more skills in sciences…its no long term Benifit for reducing our deficit when in reality when your term is done and dusted to make room for the opposition to govern, when in fact all we are doing is voting in government will inherit our current and past problems and in fact worsens Messy outcomes. Who the hell feels safe these days When denied of Dession making business deals not revealed to the working class person, left too late to have a say beacuase it’s what politions and money tycoons say. We all need to take responsibility and stop and have a rethink the way we accept current living standards. Stop comparing us to other countries and just get on what’s important to us as a people…. Coal pollution, destroying the natural elements etc.. is this what we want to inherit year after year? We are punishing our Airways, waterways and anything ground level… The basic fundamentals of what the living flourishes On…..it all comes back to us, put up with new illnesses, poisoning every system as they and we are all linked… Get real and rethink… Cheers from an Aussie Batler…..

The indigenous community volunteers would make good use of the money instead of machine’s taking the land away. Jobs at the Mine will only be for a short time

RE-FORESTATION – planting belts of rainforest, bushland, & wetlands as corridors across the country to preserve our wildlife and create better conditions for rainfall in areas which have been made barren by previous removal of vegetation.

sustainable renewable energy along the Great Dividing Range where the wind is free and won’t hurt the reef

Education and health

Marion Schausberger would spend the money on cleaning up plastic in the ocean and funding alternatives to plastic use, eg hemp products. Reusable bags and also recycled plastics for roads,

Solar footpaths

An East Coast United Rail Line Network from North Qld to Victoria. A railway line for transporting people and farm commodities with access to major entrepots .
Make the most of the land on the surface with smart agriculture and land preservation /conservation.

Unacceptable Turnball. Adani ALREADY has billions and now your proposing to give him more of OUR money?? Put the $ in to Koala habitats seeing as development took their trees.

Put the money to paying off the deficit!
Michael Groom

Help the sick , the poor and the homeless , not profiteering miners who ruin everywhere they go .

1. $1 Billion for trains to cart freight and people cheaply.
2. $1 Billion for affordable housing options.
3. $1 Billion to renewable energy jobs and infrastructure.