Beetaloo Energy are proposing a massive $40bn data centre on our Country. The NT government has promised 185 hectares of stolen Larrakia land for a gas-fired power station and data centre that locks Darwin into decades of pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and environmental damage.  If this data centre goes ahead, it will consume more than six times the current peak electricity demand of Darwin and Katherine, draining resources from local communities while lining the pockets of fossil fuel and Big Tech corporations. We refuse to accept a future where our Country and cultural heritage is paved over for Big Tech and gas. We demand the protection and return of our sacred lands. Stop the Weddell data centre. Protect Larrakia and Kungarakan lands and waters. 

TRANSITION VICTORIA TO CLEAN ENERGY & TRANSPORT 🚲 Keep Victoria on track to reach 95% renewable energy by 2035 🚲 Stop approving gas projects in Victoria 🚲 Help communities set up their own renewable energy projects and create more clean energy jobs 🚲 Say no to nuclear power 🚲 Fix public transport and build more bike paths 🚲 Require all local councils to cut carbon emissions 🚲 Make public transport free or low-cost forever ENSURE CHEAP ENERGY FOR EVERYONE ⚡Expand solar power programs for renters and low-income households ⚡Make rental homes more energy efficient to lower bills ⚡Support the switch to all-electric homes and apartment buildings  ⚡Fund community groups to help people save energy and money ⚡Add solar panels and batteries to public schools and childcare centres PREPARE OUR COMMUNITIES FOR CLIMATE IMPACTS 🌏 Fund communities and self-determined First Nations initiatives to support people to prepare for fires, floods and heatwaves  🌏 Create an independent body to map climate risks and help communities plan 🌏 Help make homes more resilient against climate disasters  🌏 Plant more trees and restore wetlands to reduce heat and flooding 🌏 Support farming practices that store carbon and keep water in the soil 🌏 Require local councils to plan for climate impacts in their communities 🌏 Fix the emergency services levy so that it's paid for by the biggest polluters and wealthiest corporations, not farmers and workers PROTECT COUNTRY, NATURE & WILDLIFE 🌳 End native forest logging for good  🌳 Urgently address the invasive species crisis 🌳 Restore wetlands, forests and the health of rivers and lakes  🌳 Fund and support the 3:30:300 rule of 3 trees, 30% canopy and 300m to a green space for all households in urban areas  🌳 Protect threatened species and stop habitat destruction  🌳 Increase funding for wildlife rescuers and carers 🌳 Entrench First Nations land rights and devolve funding to First Peoples to manage and look after Country 

We all have special places we care for. For Larrakia people, we are especially connected to the places that hold our Creation Stories, where our Ancestors are buried, our places of Healing and Ceremony and the Sacred Lands we’ve cared for - for generations. People who created the colony of Australia stole, extracted resources, and built their wealth from these special places. As a result, Aboriginal people have been prevented from protecting and nurturing our ancestral lands, life-giving forests and sacred waterways. Today, many of these places are damaged - which impacts all of us. Lee Point in Darwin is one of these special places. Lee Point is a sacred area of Larrakia Dreaming, Ceremony and history that is currently under threat of being destroyed by Defence Housing Australia to build 800 houses for the military and First National Real Estate O'Donoghue's profits. With trees older than the colony of Australia, Lee Point is a beautiful coastal bushland teeming with life, song and Spirit. For millennia, Larrakia people have cared for the lands surrounding Lee Point. Generations of Larrakia families have brought our children to Lee Point to hunt, fish and be with family, to learn who they are and how to care for Country. Today, Larrakia people are working to protect Lee Point after people in government gave Defence Housing Australia permission to demolish our sacred lands and stop us from passing our culture onto the next generations. Our goals are to protect Larrakia Country and culture, stop Defence Housing Australia from desecrating our sacred lands at Lee Point and ensure the NT and Federal governments return Larrakia lands to Larrakia people. For Larrakia people to look after these places based on thousands of years of knowledge, we need Country returned to our care. When this happens our people, Larrakia people, can again fully enact our responsibility and guardianship of the lands we all care about.

Darwin knows what care looks like.  We know how to feed families and whole communities with a line and a hook. We know how to stand together and make sure no one is left behind.  That spirit is under threat. Greedy fossil fuel corporations want to dredge our harbour, pollute our seas, and poison our water — all to make a quick buck. The proposed expansion of the Middle Arm gas hub risks destroying the very things that make Darwin home.  It doesn’t have to be this way. The Federal Labor Government has a responsibility to the people of Darwin and to Larrakia Country. Instead of throwing $1.9 billion of public money into a polluting gas hub, the government must fund what truly sustains us — a safe climate and thriving communities. That money could protect what we love: clean seas, a living harbour, restored creeks, cooling forests, and families with secure futures. Darwin life is unique, vibrant, and abundant. We know how to make a lot with a little. We know how to care for each other and for Country. Tell the Federal Labor Government to throw a line to our future — protect Darwin Harbour from pollution and greed, and invest in a First Nations‑led future that cares for people and Country.