Petition overview 1,270 supporters
17,316 petition views
145 petition shares
41 promoters
Petition Update - Save the Nullarbor
The Nullarbor Sizzle Reel went live on Instagram @savethenullabor and Facebook @save.the.nullarbor on the 3rd January 2024. The purpose of the Nullarbor sizzle reel is to raise awareness and understanding of the Nullarbor karst, its natural values and heritage significance, and to motivate people to sign the petition. It’s a big call to action.
The petition was launched on 11 December 2023. On the previous update 2 weeks ago there were 391 signatures.
As of today there are 1,270 signatures! Thank you to all those who have supported the cause. The response has been extremely encouraging.
Firstly, it reinforces the validity of the cause and secondly, it reinforces the efficacy of the petition as a critical tool in the campaign. Thirdly it demonstrates there is a much larger audience, beyond the speleo fraternity, who appreciate the Nullarbor. More than 1000 signatures in the first three weeks speaks for itself.
An encouraging number of signatories opted to give their personal reasons for supporting the cause; the integrity and thoughtfulness in the comments is heartening.
A BIG THANK YOU to the 145 people who have shared, and continue to share, the petition to your friends and networks.
And a massively HUGE THANK YOU to the 41 people who generously chipped-in to ensure the petition is promoted to a bigger and wider audience. To date the petition has been viewed 17,316 times
According to change.org, on average, people may view a petition 6 times before they sign.
The Nullarbor sizzle reel came about as a direct result of my dear friend Cathy whom I met two years ago. When Stefan and I returned from the Nullarbor in September last year I shared with Cathy that we were not sure how we would be able to create a film with so much raw un-edited footage. She suggested we have a conversation with Pippy and Josh Pomeranz. When they saw Stefan’s cave diving footage from 2017, our drone footage from 2019, and the nine weeks of intensive filming footage this last winter, they unhesitatingly and generously offered their support through PJ Pictures and Spectrum Films to produce a sizzle reel for social media. We are very grateful for their pivotal support.
Collaboration with amazing executive producer Pippy Pomeranz throughout the production of the reel, setting up #savethenullarbor social media platforms as a campaigning tool, and the petition as the call to action has been exciting, exhausting and rewarding.
Thanks to Margie Hoy who was brought in to be the Editor, and to the Australasian Caves and Karst Management Association (ACKMA) for their unsolicited offer to assist with covering the editing costs.
Thanks and acknowledgement also to the following people who provided some of the stills and footage used in the reel: Ken Boland, Steve Milner, Paul Devine, Peter Rogers and Liz Rogers.
In these petition updates I will share excerpts from my journal writings while we were on the beautiful Nullarbor karst for 9 weeks filming and photographing.
Here on this vast plain. Nothing as far as the eye can see.
Except horizon to horizon, sky to sky to sky.
Red earth. Brilliant red.
Covered with a green hue.
The ground cover. Salt bush, blue bush and prickly bush.
Blending to a thin grey carpet across the land.
No trees.
The treeless plain.
Nullarbor.
Magnificent in your vast expanse of presence.
Doline not apparent, until we are almost on top of you.
Doline, you also remind us of the magnificence of presence
for animals and birds.
Surviving and thriving, above and below,
the surface of the Nullarbor Plain.
With gratitude for the Nullarbor and you all,
Bronwen Eberhard