Forwarded from Nadja
Ben Small MP
Petition - Save Geographe Bay
Liberal Member for Forrest
From Scott Baxter of No Wind Turbines - Scott River
This is our chance to stop “fast-track approvals” turning into fast-track environmental damage, and it takes 5 minutes.
The Federal Government is rewriting Australia’s National Environmental Standards right now. These are the rules that decide whether projects must properly protect our local bush, wetlands, waterways, wildlife and farming country — or whether “consultants and offsets” become the easy way out.
Important: there are TWO separate submission portals.
If you only submit once, your feedback could miss the right form.
Portal 1: Main rules MNES (what developers must prove before approval)
Portal 2: Offsets (the “we’ll fix it somewhere else” rules)
You don’t need to be an expert. A short, honest local submission counts. Feel free to copy/paste below and use your own words...
TEMPLATE (Portal 1) Main rules - Matters of National Environmental Significance
I’m writing as a local who cares deeply about where we live. Our environment here isn’t a blank space on a map. It’s the bush, the wetlands, the waterways, the wildlife, and the farms that support families and community.
The national standards must be strong and enforceable. Please make the key rules mandatory. If a developer doesn’t have the basic information, they should not get a green light.
No more approvals based on missing studies or “we’ll do it later.” Developers should be required to do proper local surveys first (right season, proper effort, clear methods) and the results should be transparent.
Make avoidance the first rule: if a project can’t avoid sensitive areas, habitat and threatened species, it should be redesigned, moved, scaled back or refused.
The standards must also require decision-makers to look at cumulative impacts (multiple projects over time), not just assess one project in isolation.
We need transparency and accountability: publish the baseline data, the conditions, the monitoring, and what happens when conditions are breached.
TEMPLATE (Portal 2) - Offsets rules
Offsets must not become a “pay-to-damage” system where nature is traded away and locals are told it’s fine because something will be “restored” somewhere else.
Offsets should only be allowed after a project proves it has avoided and reduced harm as much as possible. If a developer can’t show real due diligence up front, they should not be allowed to rely on offsets to get approval.
If offsets are used, they must be real and measurable and checked over time, not promises. There should be a public offsets register showing: where the offset is, what it’s meant to achieve, monitoring results, and whether it is actually working.
And if corporations or developers get it wrong, if they cut corners, don’t do proper studies, or an offset fails, there must be real consequences: penalties, replacement offsets, and limits on continuing harm. No quiet deals. No slipping through.
Submissions close this Friday 30 January 2026
https://consult.dcceew.gov.au/natl-environmental-standards-mnes
✨@KeeponshiningWA
This is our chance to stop “fast-track approvals” turning into fast-track environmental damage, and it takes 5 minutes.
The Federal Government is rewriting Australia’s National Environmental Standards right now. These are the rules that decide whether projects must properly protect our local bush, wetlands, waterways, wildlife and farming country — or whether “consultants and offsets” become the easy way out.
Important: there are TWO separate submission portals.
If you only submit once, your feedback could miss the right form.
Portal 1: Main rules MNES (what developers must prove before approval)
Portal 2: Offsets (the “we’ll fix it somewhere else” rules)
You don’t need to be an expert. A short, honest local submission counts. Feel free to copy/paste below and use your own words...
TEMPLATE (Portal 1) Main rules - Matters of National Environmental Significance
I’m writing as a local who cares deeply about where we live. Our environment here isn’t a blank space on a map. It’s the bush, the wetlands, the waterways, the wildlife, and the farms that support families and community.
The national standards must be strong and enforceable. Please make the key rules mandatory. If a developer doesn’t have the basic information, they should not get a green light.
No more approvals based on missing studies or “we’ll do it later.” Developers should be required to do proper local surveys first (right season, proper effort, clear methods) and the results should be transparent.
Make avoidance the first rule: if a project can’t avoid sensitive areas, habitat and threatened species, it should be redesigned, moved, scaled back or refused.
The standards must also require decision-makers to look at cumulative impacts (multiple projects over time), not just assess one project in isolation.
We need transparency and accountability: publish the baseline data, the conditions, the monitoring, and what happens when conditions are breached.
TEMPLATE (Portal 2) - Offsets rules
Offsets must not become a “pay-to-damage” system where nature is traded away and locals are told it’s fine because something will be “restored” somewhere else.
Offsets should only be allowed after a project proves it has avoided and reduced harm as much as possible. If a developer can’t show real due diligence up front, they should not be allowed to rely on offsets to get approval.
If offsets are used, they must be real and measurable and checked over time, not promises. There should be a public offsets register showing: where the offset is, what it’s meant to achieve, monitoring results, and whether it is actually working.
And if corporations or developers get it wrong, if they cut corners, don’t do proper studies, or an offset fails, there must be real consequences: penalties, replacement offsets, and limits on continuing harm. No quiet deals. No slipping through.
Submissions close this Friday 30 January 2026
https://consult.dcceew.gov.au/natl-environmental-standards-mnes
✨@KeeponshiningWA
Forwarded from Andrew for WA
Complete the survey before 15th Feb to let them know your thoughts on Multiculturalism in WA https://www.omi.wa.gov.au/wa-multicultural-act-development
Sun 22nd at Topolinis 💛
Free entry, no bookings required and everyone welcome 😉
See you there!
✨@Keeponshining
Free entry, no bookings required and everyone welcome 😉
See you there!
✨@Keeponshining
Matilda Bay is under threat. A new electric ferry project wants to build infrastructure (including a jetty and massive batteries) at the A-class reserve. Show your support to move this dock to a non A-class area of the Swan Estuary shore.
✨@KeeponshiningWA
✨@KeeponshiningWA
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Forwarded from Tom Hawkins
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
What sort of country has secret police who, without even needing a warrant from a judge, can interrogate 14 year old children?
Your country, Australia! Stop the bill to make these police state powers permanent.
https://info.citizensparty.org.au/repeal-asio-powers?
What you can do:
▪️ Sign the petition at:
https://info.citizensparty.org.au/repeal-asio-powers?
▪️ Email your federal Member of Parliament, and the Coalition, One Nation and Independent Senators from your state, to demand they reject the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill 2025 No. 2.
▪️ Follow up emails with a phone call to their office.
▪️ Forward this message on social media and encourage your friends and contacts to sign the petition.
To find contact details for senators and members go to:
Australian Parliament House
https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Senators
Select state
Click on name below photo
Your country, Australia! Stop the bill to make these police state powers permanent.
https://info.citizensparty.org.au/repeal-asio-powers?
What you can do:
▪️ Sign the petition at:
https://info.citizensparty.org.au/repeal-asio-powers?
▪️ Email your federal Member of Parliament, and the Coalition, One Nation and Independent Senators from your state, to demand they reject the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill 2025 No. 2.
▪️ Follow up emails with a phone call to their office.
▪️ Forward this message on social media and encourage your friends and contacts to sign the petition.
To find contact details for senators and members go to:
Australian Parliament House
https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Senators
Select state
Click on name below photo
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Forwarded from MXS 8:32🇦🇺
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Has THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT harmed you , please tell your testimony here on the Victim Impact Statement Then we go to courts internationally to gain court decisions to bring justice to our land . see this document and www.corruptiowhistleblower.com for more info
BUNBURY FISHING BAN RALLY
Monday 16/2/26 at 5PM
Casuarina Boat Harbour Bunbury commercial fuel jetty area.
Please come and show your support in person!
*Guest speakers
*Complimentary Bronzie Burgers
*Complimentary refreshments
*Best banner cash prize ($500 1st, $250 2nd, $100 3rd)
*$300 Seafood hamper raffle (each attendee goes into draw) (write name on ticket)
*Collecting donations.
*Sharkman handing out lollies for the kids.
*Local tackle shops are invited.
*Media is invited.
*WAFIC is invited.
*Politicians are invited.
AIM: To show support for reversing or ceasing the commercial & recreational fishing ban the day before parliament goes back.
These things can’t happen with dodgy science!
Everyone with a trailer boat is welcome to launch and raft up against the jetty where the stage will be set up. Welcome to just show up and keep it on the trailer in the car park too!
Everyone is welcome! (Get in touch if you want to speak on the stage)
5pm after work so less excuses 💪🏻
✨@KeeponshiningWA
Monday 16/2/26 at 5PM
Casuarina Boat Harbour Bunbury commercial fuel jetty area.
Please come and show your support in person!
*Guest speakers
*Complimentary Bronzie Burgers
*Complimentary refreshments
*Best banner cash prize ($500 1st, $250 2nd, $100 3rd)
*$300 Seafood hamper raffle (each attendee goes into draw) (write name on ticket)
*Collecting donations.
*Sharkman handing out lollies for the kids.
*Local tackle shops are invited.
*Media is invited.
*WAFIC is invited.
*Politicians are invited.
AIM: To show support for reversing or ceasing the commercial & recreational fishing ban the day before parliament goes back.
These things can’t happen with dodgy science!
Everyone with a trailer boat is welcome to launch and raft up against the jetty where the stage will be set up. Welcome to just show up and keep it on the trailer in the car park too!
Everyone is welcome! (Get in touch if you want to speak on the stage)
5pm after work so less excuses 💪🏻
✨@KeeponshiningWA
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Forwarded from Tom Hawkins
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
The Albanese government is pushing through a bill that will put Australia under a permanent police state regime.
Sign Petition here: https://info.citizensparty.org.au/rep...
In 2003 the law that originally gave the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) secret police powers was so controversial it took 15 months of fierce debate to pass Parliament.
The law gave ASIO coercive questioning powers to interrogate anybody, including children as young as 14, without a warrant from a judge and without the right to silence.
The government insisted such powers were absolutely necessary in the life-or-death situation of ASIO needing information to avert a mass casualty terrorist attack.
The Labor Opposition leader Simon Crean called it a “police state”; a young Anthony Albanese gave one of the strongest speeches against the law, likening it to Nazi Germany.
The Labor Party only let it pass the Senate eventually when the Howard government agreed to put a sunset clause on the powers to make them temporary.
Now, it’s the Albanese Labor government which is legislating to expand the scope of ASIO’s interrogation powers from terrorism to include everything ASIO does, most of which is not of life-or-death urgency.
And the government’s bill, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill No. 2 2025, will repeal the sunset clause, so that these secret police powers are permanent—Australia will have an authoritarian police state regime permanently.
Please watch the video, sign the petition, and help the fight to free Australia from police state rule.
Sign Petition: https://info.citizensparty.org.au/rep...
See the video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlDNnnneJDI
Sign Petition here: https://info.citizensparty.org.au/rep...
In 2003 the law that originally gave the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) secret police powers was so controversial it took 15 months of fierce debate to pass Parliament.
The law gave ASIO coercive questioning powers to interrogate anybody, including children as young as 14, without a warrant from a judge and without the right to silence.
The government insisted such powers were absolutely necessary in the life-or-death situation of ASIO needing information to avert a mass casualty terrorist attack.
The Labor Opposition leader Simon Crean called it a “police state”; a young Anthony Albanese gave one of the strongest speeches against the law, likening it to Nazi Germany.
The Labor Party only let it pass the Senate eventually when the Howard government agreed to put a sunset clause on the powers to make them temporary.
Now, it’s the Albanese Labor government which is legislating to expand the scope of ASIO’s interrogation powers from terrorism to include everything ASIO does, most of which is not of life-or-death urgency.
And the government’s bill, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill No. 2 2025, will repeal the sunset clause, so that these secret police powers are permanent—Australia will have an authoritarian police state regime permanently.
Please watch the video, sign the petition, and help the fight to free Australia from police state rule.
Sign Petition: https://info.citizensparty.org.au/rep...
See the video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlDNnnneJDI
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