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
Establishing marine biologists to work on saving the coral instead of wrecking it
A lot of ordinary Australians are hurting struggling and living in poverty parents not having enough to look after their children properly
The Homeless and hungry more needs to be done
this can be you any day loose your job can’t pay the rent need help and it’s left to charities to help
How dare the government cut taxes for big companies give the taxes the little people pay to companies like Adani
Coal mining is history start looking ahead to future technology
More help for young people to have the chance to go to university
Some miss the opportunity if they don’t have parents able financially to support them
Most politicians have no idea how the average Australian lives
I would take the 1 Billion dollars, and add to it whatever else was needed, to divest Australia of investments in any projects that are as horrendously environmentally damaging as this one. I would also include all off-shore ownership of land, utilities and infrastructure projects. Governments are there to serve and protect the people according to their collective values and visions for the country they live in. We are not a business and we are not for sale.
Provide low cost housing for homeless and domestic violence victims and their families.
Get the NDIS up and running proficiently. Support renewable energy ventures. Provide support for Solar initiatives in individual households. Protect and nurture The Great Barrier Reef . Provide a Humanitarian approach to terrorism and refugees.
Education, hospitals, North East rail shelters for homeless people
$1 Billion.??? FREE EDUCATION, AS IT USED TO BE, AND FOR EVERYONE, NOT JUST THE RICH, MEDICAL RESEARCH, CANCER AND OTHER DESEASES,CARE FOR THE RETURNED ARMED FORCES AND BETTER PAY,DITCH THE FOSSIL FUELS AND PUT MONEY INTO NEW CLEAN ENERGY….DO NOT FUND ADANI….
Save the Great Barrier Reef
use the funds to help Public Education and services for all economically disadvantaged people in Australia
Half to go on providing Indigenous educational and vocational opportunities. The other half to go on preserving the Great Barrier Reef and threatened fauna and flora.
Conservation
Education
Infrastructure.
The arts
In fact just about anything else
Great Barrier Reef regeneration, nurture, protection and healing. Solar power. Sustainability. You will also have monies left over to give the homeless appropriate housing.
Great Barrier Reef regeneration, nurture, protection and healing. Solar power. Sustainability. You will also have monies left over to give the homeless appropriate housing.
Renewables, apprenticeships. Guaranteed employment rather than dole
Generous subsidies for rooftop solar PV panels & batteries. Peer to peer energy trading. Encourage Transition from coal & unconventional gas to renewable energy technologies. Employ teams of qualified ‘environment protection inspectors’ to police projects like forestry & land clearing to ensure breaches don’t continue. Fund projects to protect endangered flora & fauna. End logging of native forests. Stop all development on koala habitat. Adequately fund health & education.
More money for conservation, science, education, research.
Health, education, community services, welfare, roads, housing. Just a few that would benefit more of the wider community than another earth destroying mine. Kathleen Watkinson
Fiona Ryan and Maarten Ryder
Health care, support for the homeless and jobless, support for the arts, education … support for people, not corporation that already have way too much of the nations resources.
Much better idea would be to spend this money on helping OUR soldiers, and building homes for OUR homeless…
pension increase schools and hospitals
State education, health and public hospitals, public transport (rail link from Melbourne airport to the city), renewable energy technologies, research, grants for science, disability scheme.