So you want to build some pressure for effective action on climate? There are number of ways to go:

You can contact your local Member of Parliament.

Write a letter to the newspaper.

Contact your local radio station.

Contacting Politicians

There are a few simple ideas you can follow to make your contact as effective as possible.

Writing Letters - some great tips from ACF about writing effective letters

Meeting MPs - some notes from our Climate of Change Project on meeting with your local MP

Ballarat MP Contact Details

• Catherine King
• Geoff Howard
• Sharon Knight
• Jaala Pulford

Catherine King - Federal Member for Ballarat

5 Lydiard Street North
Ballarat VIC 3350

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ph: 5338 8123

Geoff Howard - State MLA for Ballarat East

15 Main Road
Ballarat, VIC 3350

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ph: 5331 7722

Sharon Knight - State MLA for Ballarat West

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Jaala Pulford - State MLC for Western Victoria

15 Main Road
Ballarat, VIC 3350

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ph: 5332 2405    

Newspapers

Always good to keep letters below 200 words and to the point. You can always write another letter for that other great idea you can't quite make fit!

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Radio Stations

Talkback shows are a great way to keep an idea bubbling away.

• 87.6 MHz 3ABN - 3ABN / FaithFM Christian Radio
• 88.0 MHz Ballarat Visitor Radio (Operated by 3BA/Power FM)
• 99.9 MHz Voice FM - Community Radio (3BBB)
• 102.3 MHz 3BA - The Grant Broadcasting Network (3BBA)
• 103.1 MHz 3BBA - "Power FM" The Grant Broadcasting Network
• 103.9 MHz Good News Radio - Christian Radio
• 105.5 MHz ABC Classic FM - ABC
• 107.1 MHz Triple J - ABC
• 107.9 MHz ABC Ballarat - ABC