In the next few weeks, the Turnbull government could hand over $1 billion of public money to prop up Adani’s giant polluting megamine.
ACF supporter Sharon France thinks this is an outrageous use of public money, so she's come up with the Australian People's Bank of Better Ideas.
Sharon recalls, "I literally woke up one morning thinking, 'If everyone could spend $1 billion on something beneficial, what would they fund? Certainly not a loan to a billionaire for a coal mine.'"
We’re helping Sharon gather ideas for better ways to use $1 billion of public money.
When all your ideas are in, Sharon will send a report highlighting the most popular and creative suggestions to our Prime Minister.
Australians don't want their public money used to prop up Adani's giant coalmine. Our elected representatives have the choice to invest in public good, not private greed.
So what are your ideas for better ways to use $1 billion of public funds?
To get more involved in Sharon's creative action, download the Better Ideas for a Billion Dollars action pack or visit her blog post to learn more.
Latest Supporters
More renewable projects with battery backup. Consider making some available for partial public investment/community ownership.
Off the debit or allowance for self funded retireries to access health care cards or enable all over seventy to access full range of pension discounts! Drop capital gains tax on sale of owner homes in order to purchase smaller home! Arsehole have no idea why their detested?
Look after our veterans and elderly because without them, we wouldn’t have our standard of living now.
education – more teachers – more jobs
health – more nurses and doctors – more jobs
renewable energy – more scientists – more products – more jobs – cleaner environment
or we will become just another 2nd best / 3rd rate country lagging behind the likes always of true ‘leaders’
To start with instead of spending millions on vested interest research.. and throwing millions at invasive species Council etc
How about better Biosecurity staff and more staff and avoid burning irreplaceable plant specimens and all the other errors .:
And that could go to help the prawn farmers and industry decimated because contaminated imported prawns were allowed in when we were one of only a couple of countries unaffected..?
Retool and help them and the prawn industry in general..
And stop allowing imports of foods grown using chemicals we wouldn’t allow or from unfair unsafe environmentally damaging practices .. human rights and health and environment before imports that take away from our farmers etc?
And how about saving a few hundred million on Invasive species? Simply stop ignoring research and facts.
Fix it at entry first.
Then feral cats .. simply legislate and fund Rangers to track and trap in all States. Require all cats be kept in at night.. including farming areas .. yes they eat rats and mice and farmers let them run loose.. insist on desexing all males and provide funding to make it affordable to any other
Registered breeders and require all councils everywhere to make it compulsory for domestic cats to be kept contained .. funding for enclosures or community groups like men’s shed or create a funding to unemployed group or community service people to build and sell at a reasonable cost..
Invest in clean clever jobs so there is no reliance on our wildlife that is being decimated as is vital habitat
by rotten trade deals .. it’s nothing to do with anything other than a dollar and every single species we are losing is at the hands of governments State and Federal.
Close the gap literacy
Well how about getting all the resources from schools all over the country that are binned at the end of the year and the term and all the many thousands of books etc and collecting and giving to Indiengius groups home schooled borrowing libraries kids in care etc? Less fortunate people little schools that do not have a library let alone a librarian?
Work out how to meet your blasted trade contracts without killing off kangaroos Dingoes Leadbeaters possum the whole damn Reef Koalas Swift parrots .. could go on but it’s endless and a total disgrace .
And while you are at it get proper facilities for the young languishing in Aged care facilities re disabilities and no many are suffering Hodgkin ms etc..
Don’t find stupid obligations test people and enforce that rubbish .. that helps a tiny percentage of people get a job.. many people can’t get to an office re fares on a day .. no money.. all that interview training and using and funding computer courses is garbage in the main.. select the individuals that need and want that..
Think about really helping give them a lift into apprenticeships They want get them a food handlers certificate etc get them basic training in THEIR chosen occupation ..
This unemployment rate is YOUR fault .. stop the create jobs rubbish and fix the problems at both ends..
Every one NOW has to have this or that certificate has to have this or that qualification .. garbage garbage .. No let them learn from their employers…. basic flipping waitressing bar skills brickies labourers
low skilled tech and manufacturing.. let them blasted we’ll reach the young.. it was better when we could get a go without this certification rubbish..
Then you’ll have people going to TAFE and Uni getting bettter higher qualifications.. but let them get a blasted job first..
You have no clue.. the kids who do not fit the school curriculum the kids who struggle .. well they hate words they hate schools they hate computing and desk jobs .. they do not fit formal education and they learn as all kids at every age should by doing !!!!
And if you have a bit left .. give it to me and I’ll buy lots of land and prevent the government anywhere from touching one animal tree bit of fungi blade of grass or contaminate water . Thank
You
Get rid of fracking preserve out water not contaminate it.
Get ideas from Denmark & Swenden re our renewable energy
Trash to power energy.
Get rid of harmful plastics.
Extend maternity leave.
Cheaper or free public transport in city areas
Money spent on preservation of Barrier Reef
Invest in reducing benefit dependent people moving them into taxable work, without relying on outsource contractors. Outsource reviewers to identify a percentage reduction of top heavy public servants ie directors and above. Research and development investment on repairing the reef and farming land.
10c refund on beverage containers returned for recycling and bulding recycling facilities all over the country.
marilyn mcknoulty so many ideas come to mind but with so many families doing it tough living on the streets ,so many young people doing it tough i think i would spend this money on cheap housing til they get on their feet along with professional help to get their lives back on track
Education, hospitals
women’s refuges
Lie detectors to test politicians
More Police, Hospitals, more Housing & public schools.
Spend the billion dollars on developing and investing renewable energy for Australia and water for the future
Sustainable options not short term gains that wreck indigenous land – we need ongoing energy so let’s harvest the natural elements – solar and wind! THat also then generates long term employment!
A safe cycling network for Sydney!!
Put it into sorting the grid out for renewables
Purxhasing land along public highways to provide natural wildlife corridors so Australian native wildlife can move freely and perpetuate genetic diversity, allow trees to reclaim land and improve the habitats of existing struggling species, as well as to improve the land aesthetically.
More organic farming communitys set up with people from Manus & Christmas Island allowed in to help!!
Housing for underprivileged
Josy Kennedy; spend the money on renewable energy, and on banning single use plastic bags (well, actually, all plastic bags would be even better). We’ve only got one planet, Prime Minister. Lets look after it, so that it will continue to look after us well into the future. (Did you see the pictures from that remote Pacific Island, with all that plastic pollution washed up on the beach? Do we want the whole planet to look like that?)
A better way to spend a billion dollars would be to invest in renewable energy and therefore create jobs for the future.
Invest in young Australians and a creative future.
Fibre to the premise for starters.
Help for amilies forced to be homeless and live in cars. Help for the homeless in a cold winter. Create more jobs so people don’t have to be helpless.