Be part of the alliance with Traditional Owners!
Origin and Empire have started fracking the NT, and the Morrison Government wants to throw money at them – but momentum is not in their favour.
Traditional Owners from across the NT have been busy these last few weeks, bringing their demands to Parliament in an open letter and fronting a Senate inquiry into fracking in the Beetaloo Basin.
This is just the beginning of this fight. With a key disallowance vote in the Senate in just one week, together we can use this moment to change the course of fracking in the NT.
Will you chip in to support Traditional Owners in the lead up to the crucial Senate vote?
Traditional Owners from across the NT have been busy these last few weeks, bringing their demands to Parliament in an open letter and fronting a Senate inquiry into fracking in the Beetaloo Basin.
This is just the beginning of this fight. With a key disallowance vote in the Senate in just one week, together we can use this moment to change the course of fracking in the NT.
Will you chip in to support Traditional Owners in the lead up to the crucial Senate vote?
With your help, we can overshadow the propaganda from Origin, Empire and the Morrison Government's with staunch resilience from the frontlines including:
- Bringing Traditional Owners to decision makers in Parliament and in Boardrooms with a supercharged logistical budget to bridge the thousands of kilometres from remote communities;
- Guerilla postering giving people everywhere the tools and resources straight to their mailboxes – so they can spread the campaign in their own communities;
- TV advertising that cuts through gas propaganda with human stories from the frontlines of fracking gasfields;
- Regular polling in key electorates in the cities and the bush to show the gas industry how out of touch they are – while showing politicians that backing gas is a political lose-lose.
We speak as Traditional Owners and custodians of and around the lands and waters that you call the Beetaloo and connected basins. Although we come from many Nations, we have come together to put an end to the ongoing threat of fracking on our countries, which will denigrate and desecrate our lands.
We know our country. We read it, we understand it, and we alone speak for it and its songlines. It is our birthright - handed down by bloodline.
Together, we fight for it.
Our connections to country have been established and proven time and time again by the white man's law. We hold Native Title and Land Rights - a system that is meant to protect and enforce our rights. These have been denied to us.
For years, we have been told lies by the gas and oil corporations. That there would be no damage to the country or poison in our waters. These companies won't even answer the most basic of questions - where they plan to drill or how many wells they want to build.
These gas corporations lack any respect for us as Traditional Owners. They have failed to follow proper process in consultation with us, failed to acquire consent, failed to provide transparency in their dealings with us, and have systematically excluded our voices from the decision-making process for activities on our Country.
We don't have the same resources as these corporations. The system is already set up against us.
This Federal Government coming in over the top of what little processes we have undermines our land rights as Northern Territory Traditional Owners. The same Government who has never come out to our communities to sit with us or meet with us. They are failing to represent us.
Giving $50 million to mining corporations for an 'economic recovery' to start drilling will only line the pockets of huge corporations who want to take more than we're willing to give. It does nothing but hurt us, our communities and our country more.
What about our recovery? The money to finally fulfill the empty promises of proper housing in our communities, or resourcing the health services we've been calling for for years.
And what about country's recovery? Country's water is the blood that flows through our body, and it is already poisoned. Where is the money to clean the water many NT communities are forced to drink?
This is short term money that will cause long term pain, sow division and damage country and community. We will not allow you to cause any more pain, hurt or division in our communities.
Hear us when we say - we won't allow fracking gasfields on our country. Not now. Not ever.
We are united. This is our land, and we're ready to do whatever it takes to protect country.
We know our country. We read it, we understand it, and we alone speak for it and its songlines. It is our birthright - handed down by bloodline.
Together, we fight for it.
Our connections to country have been established and proven time and time again by the white man's law. We hold Native Title and Land Rights - a system that is meant to protect and enforce our rights. These have been denied to us.
For years, we have been told lies by the gas and oil corporations. That there would be no damage to the country or poison in our waters. These companies won't even answer the most basic of questions - where they plan to drill or how many wells they want to build.
These gas corporations lack any respect for us as Traditional Owners. They have failed to follow proper process in consultation with us, failed to acquire consent, failed to provide transparency in their dealings with us, and have systematically excluded our voices from the decision-making process for activities on our Country.
We don't have the same resources as these corporations. The system is already set up against us.
This Federal Government coming in over the top of what little processes we have undermines our land rights as Northern Territory Traditional Owners. The same Government who has never come out to our communities to sit with us or meet with us. They are failing to represent us.
Giving $50 million to mining corporations for an 'economic recovery' to start drilling will only line the pockets of huge corporations who want to take more than we're willing to give. It does nothing but hurt us, our communities and our country more.
What about our recovery? The money to finally fulfill the empty promises of proper housing in our communities, or resourcing the health services we've been calling for for years.
And what about country's recovery? Country's water is the blood that flows through our body, and it is already poisoned. Where is the money to clean the water many NT communities are forced to drink?
This is short term money that will cause long term pain, sow division and damage country and community. We will not allow you to cause any more pain, hurt or division in our communities.
Hear us when we say - we won't allow fracking gasfields on our country. Not now. Not ever.
We are united. This is our land, and we're ready to do whatever it takes to protect country.
Chip in here!
Now is the time to support Traditional Owners in their fight against fracking.
Boost the campaign in the lead up to this critical Senate vote to halt fracking in the Beetaloo basin!
Boost the campaign in the lead up to this critical Senate vote to halt fracking in the Beetaloo basin!
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