Australian ABC News Poll - Subject varies from week to week

Dear (TITLE AND NAME),
I call on you as (TITLE) of Australia not to betray the Kyoto Protocol. 

Australia must live up to its commitment to the UN negotiations to prevent global warming. Sabotaging the Kyoto Protocol puts Australia into a position of environmental isolationism and makes it responsible for climate catastrophe.

Australia has one of the highest per capita CO₂ emissions in the world. 

People around the world that are already faced with the first signs of climate change, suffering from floods, drought and hurricanes, expect your country to be in the forefront of tackling climate change.

An enormous potential of creativity, innovation and efficiency is there to be harvested once we have decided to really reduce CO₂ emissions. If you fail to reverse your decision to kill the Kyoto Protocol, future generations will not forgive you.

(TITLE AND NAME), the science is clear and the international political will is there to tackle climate change.

Australia must join the world in fighting global warming!

Sincerely,

To Federal MP:

Dear (TITLE AND NAME),
Telecommunications in Australia is in crisis.

For many years we Australians have been putting up with a monopoly situation without choice.  Even now with the so-called introduced competition there is a monopoly still held by Telstra.  Telstra still supplies inefficiently to their competition Service Providers with the data for their billing.  In turn creating customer dissatisfaction with the competition Service Provider due to possibly Telstra's monopolistic power on the infrastructure.  Telstra provides the majority of landline services, but they charge more than their competition that use the same line.  Why is that so?  There are too many anomalies in the communications system created by Telstra to mention here.

This can not go on any longer!

Telstra must be independent.  The infrastructure and carrier side of the company must be separated from the marketing arm.

The Telstra marketing business must be sold and the infrastructure kept in public hands.  The publicly owned  infrastructure can then provide lines to all Service Providers on a "level playing field", where Telstra marketing gets charged the same rates as all other Service Providers.

Having a public owned infrastructure will reduce the required mobile phone towers around Australia, as all providers will share the same cost effective and potentially larger network.  Sharing costs across the board on all infrastructure will allow installation of communications equipment implemented in areas that all Service Providers are hesitant to install to provide a cheaper and better service than is available currently.

Sell Telstra retail NOW.  Keep the Telstra infrastructure in public hands!

Dear (TITLE AND NAME),
I am writing to urge you to consider your position on ethanol and biodiesel - Australia's home-grown renewable fuel.  I would ask that you support the inclusion of a renewable fuels standard as part of Government policy, which will give Australia more flexibility in its fuels use, while at the same time ensuring that there is a growing demand for biofuels throughout Australia. You should seek to focus on the positive opportunities that growing biofuels uses will create in your own State. 

Ethanol and biodiesel will help reduce vehicle emissions while at the same time help protect Australia's precious water supply. Tax dollars will never be used to clean up pollution caused by ethanol or biodiesel.

I request that you look for the opportunities this will create for your State.  Farmers could unite in Australia to build biofuel plants.  This will create jobs and economic development that will benefit your State in numerous ways. Instead of importing oil, your State could be producing ethanol or biodiesel. 

I would urge you to embrace biofuels and begin working with the oil companies to ensure a smooth transition from fossil fuels to biofuels, as well as with Australia's farmers to begin the development of a biofuel industry in your State.

Sincerely,

Dear (TITLE AND NAME),
Australia is dealing with all sorts of energy problems. One thing we do know is that we need to produce and use more renewable energy in Australia. 

Our nation needs to do more to encourage alternative sources of energy and greater biofuel production and use. Please support legislation that would require the increased use of renewable fuels. 

Sincerely,

To Federal MP:

Dear (TITLE AND NAME),
We know that you are very concerned with our nation's energy problems. Please know that our country has the ability to produce and use much more renewable fuels.

Greater biofuel use will enable our country to reduce our foreign oil imports at the same time creating markets for farm products.

Instead of addressing these issues on a state-by-state basis and jeopardizing our nation's clean air goals, I would urge you to support biofuels and create a renewable fuels requirement that would increase alternative fuel use.

As you develop a national energy strategy please remember to include a significant role for renewable fuels.

Sincerely,

To Federal MP:

Dear (TITLE AND NAME),
Currently Australia is independent of most overseas oil products for our own domestic use.

I ask you to consider the implications in getting involved in a war which has nothing to do with us.  Currently America spends US$50 billion per annum on defence in the Middle East to protect there source of fuel (US$50 billion worth per annum), so why should we get involved their potentially US$18 billion per month war?

The issue in Afghanistan is related to getting oil to America through that country.  Russia failed in their endeavours to secure this access.  Why should we get involved in a war created by the ever wasteful and polluting American nation and its industry?

We should be spending our country's resources on developing renewable fuels, or we will be in the same situation as America, defending and depending on other peoples' good will to allow access to their resources.

WE NEED FUNDING FOR HEALTHY SCHOOLS TODAY !

Tell your MP that the Government should commit to Funding for the Improvement of Education when it takes up the education budget to ensure that new programs for greener non-toxic school facilities will be adequately funded. Grant programs should be provided that will help state education agencies set up their own programs for greener school facilities.