'GST For Fracking' Blackmail

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The Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has today threatened to cut GST to states unless they accept unconventional gas exploration and fracking.

The Treasurer has asked the Productivity Commission to review the system for distributing GST revenue among the states, with a view to disadvantaging state governments that take action to restrict coal and gas mining.

This is a terrible move - the Federal Government is effectively forcing states to overturn democratically-mandated controls on fracking, or they will withhold GST from them.

We all pay the GST every time we go to the shops and we expect this money to flow to schools and hospitals, not be used as a political bullying tactic to push a fracking agenda!

The Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has today threatened to cut GST to states unless they accept unconventional gas exploration and fracking.

The Treasurer has asked the Productivity Commission to review the system for distributing GST revenue among the states, with a view to disadvantaging state governments that take action to restrict coal and gas mining.

This is a terrible move - the Federal Government is effectively forcing states to overturn democratically-mandated controls on fracking, or they will withhold GST from them.

We all pay the GST every time we go to the shops and we expect this money to flow to schools and hospitals, not be used as a political bullying tactic to push a fracking agenda!

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Attention Scott Morrison MP and Josh Frydenberg MP,

Many states have introduced moratoriums or even outright bans on unconventional gas and fracking in response to growing evidence that these activities are fundamentally unsustainable and harmful to community health, water resources and the future of rural communities.

This is entirely consistent with the States’ and Territories’ constitutional responsibility to manage natural resources and protect water resources and the environment.

Forcing the states to allow fracking in return for GST would be an extraordinary and unwarranted intervention in state affairs, and would create a real risk of contamination and depletion of irreplaceable groundwater.

We consider this to be a case of the Federal Government trying to blackmail state governments in a bid to promote the activities of multinational fracking corporations. It is an unethical step.

Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory have done nothing but what they were elected to do.

Anti-democratic intervention by the Productivity Commission or the Federal Government to force unsafe unconventional gas mining or unsustainable coal mining onto our communities will not be tolerated.

The GST must be distributed on a fair and objective basis to fund basic services needed by communities, and should not be used as a tool to blackmail states and territories into accepting invasive gasfields against the will of the voting public.

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