Take action and make your Call to Country heard: click here to download your own Community Action Pack and help us acheive national reforms to protect Australia from coal and gas mining.
We have now launched our Call to Country. It’s a call from the heart of this country, and the people who love it, to demand real action to restrict inappropriate coal and gas mining. Our new mapping shows that 437 million hectares of our land is covered by coal and gas licences or applications. That’s more than half of Australia and an area 18 times the size of Great Britain. Even our greatest international tourist icons are not safe, with at least 11 of our 16 National Landscapes at threat.
Our Call to Country has been plastered to the window or pinned to the door of almost every Federal electorate in Australia. But that was just the beginning.
Right up until the federal election in September, we’re asking you to take Our Call To Country and meet with your Federal Member of Parliament. Our Federal politicians have shirked their responsibilities for too long – but they have the power to act and now they need to use it. Don’t just stop with your Federal MPs. Keep on taking the Call to Country everywhere it needs to go – pin it to the doors of churches, financial institutions, chambers of commerce, and the offices of federal election candidates. Share it with your friends and families, your colleagues and your social and sporting clubs.
If you love Australia, now is the time to act. The country is calling. (Click to tweet this!)
Take action today: click here to sign the pledge to tell all Australian politicians that you support our Call to Country and that you will work with your neighbours to protect your community and the future of our country from inappropriate mining.
We call on the federal government to:
1. Put in place an urgent moratorium on coal seam gas and other unconventional gas mining.
2. Create no-go zones to protect productive agricultural land, national tourism icons and all residential dwellings from coal and gas mining.
3. Strengthen the Federal environment laws to exclude coal and gas mining from important water sources, cultural heritage sites and sensitive environment areas.
4. Put in place national standards on coal and gas pollution and enforce compliance.
5. Stop using taxpayers’ money to provide handouts to big coal and gas corporations and make the miners pay their fair share in taxes.
6. Reject current development proposals for coal ports, mega-mines, dams and unconventional gas wells in significant areas.
7. Conduct research into greenhouse gas emissions from mining and make sure they are properly accounted and fully paid for.
8. Hold a Royal Commission to investigate the management of coal and gas resources by all Australian governments.
Resource Pack
We have prepared a number of documents and maps that will help you get the word out to your family, friends, and to our politicians, that the federal parliament can act on the issues of coal and coal seam gas mining.
Call to Country
Call to Country Policy Briefing Note
Map Poster: Beautiful one minute, ruined the next (pdf, 39MB)
Map Poster: Our Country or Their Quarry? (pdf, 28MB)
Methodology report of national mapping of coal and gas titles
What you can do
Call your Federal MP and arrange a meeting
Talk to your friends and family about the campaign
Share these images on Twitter using #calltocountry
Tweet this, some ideas to share this campaign on Twitter
Share these Call to Country images on Facebook
Watch and share our Call to Country video
Find your federal MP on Twitter or Facebook (or email) and share this campaign with them
Join Lock the Gate and help us protect our land, water and future
Australia: Our country or their quarry?
Click the maps below to view a larger size. You can also download the full size high quality pdf of each map, see the download links below.
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High quality (pdf, 27.8MB)
Delivering our Call to Country
You can browse photos of us delivering our message to our federal MPs below. To download any of the images from today please see our photo gallery on Flickr. Photo will continue to be added as we receive them.