Barry O’Farrell made an election promise to debate any petition of over 10,000 signatures. We presented over 20,000 in November 2011 calling for a moratorium on all CSG mining until the outcome of a Royal Commission, and a complete ban on hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’).
Today was the day that the petition was put before parliament. Your premier, Barry O’Farrell, did not even turn up. The resulting so-called “debate” you can witness here in full shows the contempt that so many of our politicians have for genuine public concern… for YOUR opinion. Dysfunctional doesn’t begin to describe it…