[Pil-pc-oceania] Fwd: How do you want your cookie crumbled?

[Petra Kahle]

Hi,
this is fun
and telling the government how you would like the subsidies for  
pollution redistributed.
Petra.

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> From: "GetUp" <info at getup.org.au>
> Date: 1 April 2008 5:17:16 PM
> To: PermacultureWorks at gmail.com
> Subject: How do you want your cookie crumbled?
>
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>
>
> Dear Petra,
>
> Ever reflected how you'd do things differently if you were in  
> charge? How you'd put your money where your mouth is on things like  
> climate change if you were the one dishing out the taxpayer's  
> dollars? Would you, like the previous Government did, subsidise the  
> polluting fossil fuel industries at 28 times the amount of  
> renewable energies?
>
> Now you have a chance to tell the Treasurer just how you'd like to  
> even the ledger - using our exciting new 'Australia's Biscuit  
> Budget' tool, before he sits down to review the $9 billion of  
> fossil fuel subsidies he's inherited:
>
> www.getup.org.au/campaign/AustraliasBiscuitBudget
>
> Right now, Wayne Swan and his staff are poring over numbers and  
> graphs, deciding Australia's budget for the next year. They have a  
> chance to end the insane billions of dollars worth of subsidies to  
> the fossil fuel industry, and instead fund climate solutions - if  
> we send them a clear message that that's what we want them to do.
>
> Budgets are a clear indication of where a government's priorities  
> lie. Budgets are where promises become concrete, or fade away.  
> Using our new 'Biscuit Budget' tool, you can show just how you'd  
> prioritise your taxes - fossil fuels or climate solutions:
>
> www.getup.org.au/campaign/AustraliasBiscuitBudget
>
> Averting dangerous climate change will need a real rethink of the  
> way we do things, and the way we organise our spending priorities.  
> Our foot's already in the door, and we've identified savings in  
> this budget that mean these solutions won't cost a cent, but we  
> need your help - the Treasurer is under immense pressure from the  
> fossil fuel polluters who want to keep their $9 billion of free  
> subsidies. Only a strong message from the community can counteract  
> those vested interests with their hands in our cookie jar.
>
> Click here to show the Treasurer just how you'd apportion those  
> cookies this budget:
>
> www.getup.org.au/campaign/AustraliasBiscuitBudget
>
> The good news is that the Government is listening - last week, we  
> took your People's Agenda budget to the office of Wayne Swan. They  
> listened as we showed them hidden fossil fuel subsidies we  
> uncovered that could be moved to fund climate solutions. Re- 
> investing this money in climate solutions will stimulate thousands  
> of new, green-collar jobs and strengthen growing Australian  
> industries.
>
> Thanks for being a part of the solution,
> The GetUp team
>
> PS - Find reporting of this campaign in newspapers across the  
> country. And check out GetUp's April Fools pun in the Sydney  
> Morning Herald.
>
>
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