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
Water security for Townsville Could be- Increase height of Burdekin Dam with a gravity fed pipeline from the Burdekin Dam, Hells Gate Dam, desalination plant, recycled waste water Adani Should build and pay for it’s own railway!
Let’s put solar panels on every rooftop. Let’s install battery banks in every home. Let’s lead the world!
Not my ideas but some I read on Facebook that make a LOT MORE SENSE! Here’s a list: CREATE JOBS THAT BUILD OUR COUNTRY
FARMING * TOURISM* CLEAN MANUFACTURING INFRASTRUCTURE BUILD AN AUSSIE MERCHANT FLEET
*Nationalise car industry and convert to electric vehicles
*Nationalise industries that go offshore
*Create a Federally funded and insured Land Army for farming
*Set up a national feral animal product industry to protect our environment from feral plagues
*Build high-speed rail for people and freight. Fair rates and conditions for truckies.
*Nationalise the national power grid. Invest in 100% renewables and baseload storage
*Build an Aussie oil refinery, an Aussie merchant navy and farmer-owned food processing
I would put it into renewable energy projects
Conservation, renewable energy and saving the Koala’s for starters.
The homeless. ..education. ..pensioners to name a few.
Replace the money taken from the Climate Council and reinstate the scientists and others who are giving us the information and protective ideas your Government won’t.
Spend one billion to Fund up an Australia-wide conservation endeavor to save all indigenous flora and fauna, and employ Australian youth to run the programmes.
Schools, public health, NBN
Put towards research for developing the world’s first very fast long distance Trains, run only by renewable energies.
1Billion $ would train a hell of a lot of young people ,so they stand a better chance of getting work . On the other hand it could help companies take on young people of Australian nationality
How about decent affordable housing and support of the homeless.
What about Health care, m3ntql health support etc
What about the Education system it could nationalised – equality across the board.
What about support for increase in pensions so people are not living on or below the poverty line.
What about jobs for our youth and older people…..surely the pople of AUstralia matter.
I think a billion dollars could easily be spent on accommodation for low income and disadvantaged people..homes are desperately needed for so many people. We need to be part of the solution and not the problem. Adani plans on doing irreversible damage to our environment!
Money best spent on preserving the integrity of the coral reefs and into fast tracking renewal energy targets and technology
Build social housing eg. Common Ground
Place-based strategy to reduce over representation of aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders in the criminal justice system
How about housing the hundreds of thousands of people that have no homes !!!!!
1. Take all the refugees from Manus Island and Nauru and resettle them in Australia, supplying housing, medical care and education. In compensation for their appalling suffering,, offer to bring their immediate families here as well
This money will be better used towards renewable energy. As for Adelaide’s power failure, was due to a very severe storm. So don’t even think subsidising Adani. Stop destroying animal and Aboriginal habitats and our Barrier Reef. These are “just surviving”: lets not allow Adani to throw the last stone.
The arts, education, support children’s school librarians and libraries. Bring back bees to back yards. Support community gardens. More wild spaces.
It is shocking that the Govt would even consider giving $1billion to Adani!
Our hospitals & schools need far more funding to provide quality care and education. Aged pensioners, the thousands of homeless and low income families must receive better than the pittance they are getting. How dare you give tax payers’ money to a company known to have destroyed environments and not done enough to make reparations to the communities. What an appalling legacy the Govt is prepared to leave future generations!
Public housing, Public education,
Public universities, Public health.
These monies are to be spend on the Australian People, does the reason we pay taxes to take care of the citizens and their needs.
Why don’t you , Turnbull, put the hand in you your pocket. You have no right to waste or misuse
The Public Purse.