Stop Adani campaign to hit top gear in Qld

The Stop Adani alliance will cold call 100,000 voters, and run door-knocking and advertising blitzes in the final two weeks of the Queensland election race.

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The Stop Adani group will cold call 100,000 voters in the last two weeks of the Queensland election. (AAP)

Stop Adani campaigners are shifting into overdrive in a bid to pressure the LNP to match Labor's vow to kill off any taxpayer loan to the Indian miner.

Opponents of Adani's mega coal mine in central Queensland plan to cold call more than 100,000 voters in the final two weeks of the state election campaign.

Alliance volunteers will also carry out a comprehensive doorknocking campaign in Brisbane on November 18, supported by new TV, online and mobile billboard ads.

The protest group said its primary focus was "pressuring LNP leader Tim Nicholls to veto the $1 billion public loan to Adani" but it also wanted to ensure all candidates rejected the Carmichael mine.

Labor Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has controversially vowed to veto a possible billion-dollar loan to Adani from the federal Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility (NAIF).

Mr Nicholls previously said he wouldn't do the same if he became premier on November 25.

Alliance member and Australian Marine Conservation Society campaigner Shannon Hurley said thousands of supporters were taking action to ask Mr Nicholls to veto the NAIF loan to Adani.

"We are calling on all parties to walk away from Adani's dirty mine and to make sure whoever forms the next Queensland government commits to doing what it takes to save the Great Barrier Reef," she said.

GetUp members who support the Stop Adani campaign will be holding "phone banking parties" to reach out to voters in key seats.

The alliance also said its volunteers would relentlessly follow the two leaders and their candidates.

Mr Nicholls said he would not bow to pressure from Sydney and Melbourne-based activists who didn't care about regional Queensland jobs.

"I've said it time and time again, we don't take our riding orders from Canberra, we don't take instructions from the unions, we don't kowtow to the big companies," he said on the Gold Coast on Thursday.

"We're fighting for jobs for Queenslanders throughout the whole state."

Stop Adani will hold official launches for its campaign strategy in Brisbane and Mackay on Thursday night.


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Published 9 November 2017 3:36pm
Source: AAP


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