The Queensland state election campaign is heating up, and next Monday lunch time, you’re invited to help make coal seam gas the issue in the marginal electorate of Ashgrove, in and around Brisbane.
We’re organising a special public forum with the Lock the Gate Alliance, Country music star and 2008 Australian of the Year Lee Kernaghan, radio broadcaster Alan Jones and four courageous Queensland women, who will be speaking first hand of their experiences with the coal seam gas industry.
Local candidates are also invited and will be asked questions about how their party plans to protect Queensland communities. So far candidates from Bob Katter’s Australian Party and the Greens have RSVP’d yes, while the Labor and LNP party candidates have yet to commit.
Let’s create a strong show of public and media interest and make this an event they can’t afford to miss.
What: Brisbane Food Security Forum, State Election 2012
When: 12pm, Monday 12 March
Where: Brisbane Convention Centre, South Brisbane
When: 12pm, Monday 12 March
Where: Brisbane Convention Centre, South Brisbane
The community forum is free but RSVPs are essential. Click here: http://www.getup.org.au/brisbane-event-rsvp
It’s not often GetUp sees eye-to-eye with Alan Jones, but on this issue we’re on the same side of the debate. Coal seam gas mining in Australia is an issue that has already seen unlikely alliances between farmers and greenies, Bob Katter and Bob Brown. Australians of all walks of life have come together, concerned about the rampant expansion of an industry that brings possibly irreversible damage to our water resources, agriculture, environment, health and communities.
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