IN OCTOBER the QPRC council majority, team Overall plus Councillors Hicks and Schweikert, appointed a consultancy to again look at the E4 zone approved by Palerang and the NSW state. Singled out for review are two rural residential localities that have long been the lobbying focus of a group of
Author: Maria Taylor
Virtual Kangaroo Hordes, questions asked …
... of NSW Department of Primary Industries and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service — still awaiting answers What measures do you at National Parks (NP) as the state guardians of the wildlife/protected native species employ to: Determine actual need to shoot kangaroos. What needs to be specified and what species are targeted? Can
Virtual kangaroo hordes
How do they get those numbers? “ This could be the greatest wildlife swindle in scientific history… In 2011, I reviewed government data finding that kangaroos are in serious long-term decline in New South Wales. I submitted exhaustive scientific evidence detailing critical errors in government population surveys; flaws in the harvest
NSW government bid for rural support with community-wide baiting, shooting
IN NSW, UNDER the umbrella of the National Party portfolio of Primary Industries (Niall Blair, Minister) the Local Land Services agency — which reaches out to all landholders — is the primary promoter of lethal management of animals considered pests by farmers. Besides targeting (undifferentiated) wild dogs that include dingoes as
Pork Baril-aro — misleading Parliament and handouts to National Party mates?
DEPUTY PREMIER AND National Party Member for Monaro, John Barilaro, has again been answering questions about government funding handouts to Coalition mates, days after being accused of misleading parliament on a similar case. With a reputation for campaigning via photo opportunities as he hands government checks to some organisations, it did not
Why do we let them do it?
Tail wags the policy dog on environment THE “DERANGED CIRCUS of wreckers” and climate change deniers in federal politics described by the Guardian’s Katherine Murphy after Turnbull was booted out, and the reactionary wreckers of native species and ecosystems that we endure in NSW from the National Party and their Liberal
War on wildlife ramps up in NSW
WHAT IS IT with killing kangaroos to pay for the misfortunes of Australian graziers and croppers? My colleague suggests it is a control thing, as in ‘can’t control the weather and drought but can control something larger and more visible than weeds’. That something, being a native grazer, has the impertinence
