In June, a Senate Inquiry into the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) was launched after the #StopAdani alliance revealed the shady web of ties between the NAIF board and the coal industry.
The NAIF is a $5 billion fund established by the Federal Government in 2016 to provide financial assistance to infrastructure projects in northern Australia. Adani has requested $1 billion of public money from the NAIF to build a rail line that would cart coal all the way from the Galilee Basin to the Great Barrier Reef coast.
You can make a submission to the inquiry Submissions close 28 ...
In June, a Senate Inquiry into the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) was launched after the #StopAdani alliance revealed the shady web of ties between the NAIF board and the coal industry.
The NAIF is a $5 billion fund established by the Federal Government in 2016 to provide financial assistance to infrastructure projects in northern Australia. Adani has requested $1 billion of public money from the NAIF to build a rail line that would cart coal all the way from the Galilee Basin to the Great Barrier Reef coast.
You can make a submission to the inquiry Submissions close 28 July. The Inquiry will be held in mid-August and public hearings are likely to be scheduled later that month.
This is a critical opportunity to shine a light on NAIF and to question its Board members about why they are considering giving $1 billion to a dodgy company like Adani for a mega polluting coal mine.
Every unique public submission to the Inquiry helps to turn up the heat on NAIF and ramps up the pressure on our politicians to rule out public funding for Adani and invest in renewable energy instead.
There are no requirements on the style or content of submissions – they can be as long or as short as you’d like.
The most important things to remember are to write persuasively and in your own words. If you want to make your submission even more effective, you can find the government’s guidelines on writing submissions here. And read the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference here.