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
We must put the environment before people and money. If we don’t we can’t live. What’s the point?
Let’s use some of it to get solar technology working. The USA and China are way ahead of us. More funding foe wave technology, thermal power. Why is Australia so bad at long term planning? Anything is better than a company that abuses the land and its inhabitants the way Adani does.
Spend on animal welfare. Sadly Won’t happen😓 So I say boost NDIS these people need all the help they can get!
Put this money into preschool and Primary education as an investment in Australia’s future.
Subsidies for solar energy and/or wind energy for all
Free solar panels for all low income homes, apartments & free mix of renewables to schools especially in areas of disadvantage. Funding for home/ neighbourhood initiatives and more funding for protecting to reef
Fund cotton farmers to start changing their crops to hemp. Set up struggling towns with sustainable powered worker share-holdered factories to manufacture quality hemp products…. made with love by Australians working for a healthy world.
How about putting it back into welfare??? Ha ha ha. You capitalalist money hungry humans. Egalitarian responsible social justice would be nice. The greatest harm done to most people is not by guys with teatowels on their heads but men in BUSINESS SUITS.
Public Education and health
Infrastructure, fiber optic nbn rather than copper wire, education, health, hospitals, renewable energy
Creating more affordable housing options for public service workers. More hostel places for the homeless and those escaping domestic violence.
Education, supplying teachers for disabled children, smaller classes, more teachers. Reducing costs of tertiary education.
Invest in creative industries: employment; product that will gain worldwide attention; generate positive national cohesion; generate tourism.
Shift coal subsidies into renewables: produce ongoing jobs and power.
overhaul outmoded education system
help the homeless, those who are real need, create jobs for young people, create new industries. here .
Distribute $1 billion equitably across Regional, including isolated communities for the development of agri business and food production industry, undertaken by local people. Socially and ecologically balanced, which sustains the growth of regional communities. Just do it!
The very fast train Newcastle to Sydney to Melbourne
Support our elderly population better, after all, they worked hard, paid taxes and made Australia, not the ones who atr trying to buy it.
Homeless, education, hospitals, infrastructures for Australians first
Energy from coal cannot last forever, whereas solar energy is everlasting. The Great Barrier Reef needs protecting not companies that will hinder its recovery
How about housing and work projects for homeless people. Better care for elders. Support for asylum seekers for a start. More overseas aid.
Fed up of all this climate change denial. We do not want ADANI’S or Reinhardt’s abominable mines destroying our Country. You already know this.
Contribute Australian technology to renewable power and composting toilets in the developing world. Extend and improve our battery storage and solar roof tiles.
Build wind and solar farms