| Name |
Subject |
Comments |
| John |
Oppose the Game Council Amendment
Bill - Don't Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Hunting in national parks is a
recipe for fatal accidents to happen and supporters of this
bill will surely be blamed for that.Please keep our national
parks safe for native animals and visitors alike. |
| Elizabeth |
Oppose the Game Council Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| George |
The Game Council Amendment Bill
must not be allowed to pass -- please oppose it |
As a biologist who has spent his
entire working life involved in conservation biology, I urge
you to oppose the Game and Feral Animal Control Amendment Bill
2009. This bill would take control of the conservation of wildlife
in NSW out of the hands of the professionals in DECC and DPI
who have dedicated their working lives to ethical, scientifically
based, professional wildlife management and give enormous and
frightening powers to untrained amateurs. |
| Graeme |
Oppose the Game Council Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a frequent user of National
Parks I am horrified to think that we would allow recreational
shooting in a part of our world that provides a welcome return
to nature. PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT THIS LEGISLATION. |
| Philip |
Oppose the Game Council Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Christine |
Oppose the Game Council Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
allowing more use of weapons where
people walk is just outrageous. Where are the principles of
the labor party?????? there are many ways of controlling feral
animals, and this should never be one of them |
| Andrew G. |
Oppose the Game Council Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Joanne |
Oppose the Game Council Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
The Australian Environment is seriously
under threat from bushfires and floods with the present effects
of Global Warming. When the environment comes under pressure,
so do Native fauna species; hundreds of thousands of native
animals were killed and displaced during the recent Victorian
bushfires. This is not a time to put even more strain on our
native wildlife. |
| Terry |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Anne |
Game Council Amendment Bill - Please
oppose hunting in National Parks |
Are we in the 21st century or still
stuck in Victorian England? Can any civilised government condone
the hazardous shooting of animals by amateurs in our national
parks? Can you not remember the fighting and raised emotions
that preceded the banning of duck shooting in this state? Surely
in this day and age, as civilised beings, we must not support
cruel and bloodthirsty pursuits. |
| Barry |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am writing as President of STEP
Inc, which, with over 400 members, is the largest community
environmental group in the northern Sydney region. |
| Barry |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Eedra |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Bad legislation will not resolve
a bad problem. The Game Amendment Bill is bad legislation. Do
something for the majority of voters - the pet owners, such
as make sure public transport is accessible for responsible
people with their PETS. |
| Susan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is a disgrace, I hate guns
and I vote! Suzi |
| Ann |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please protect our precious native
animals. |
| Vivien |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Emmanuelle |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jennifer |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| sally |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please don't jeopardise our National
Parks for the sake of a couple of dodgy votes. It will be remembered
always as your lasting legacy - not one to be proud of. |
| Stephen |
The Game Amendment Bill is a Private
Deal for a Well-Connected Minority Group |
The existing 'sweetheart' arrangement
that allows NSW hunters to roam and hunt in state forests is
bad enough, as clearly their long term interest is access to
a viable hunting stock, and not the elimination of that stock.
It is only a matter of time before a non-hunter is killed. |
| Patricia |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I have already heard of an instance
of people being fired at, the shooters not even knowing that
anyone was there, Natonal Parks and SCA's areas are for quiet
relaxation, it is too dangerous to allow shooting in these areas,
children will be at risk. |
| Christel |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Australia needs to be proud and
aware that it still has an environment to save, and culling
needs to be done in a sustainable way that does not ruin the
environment |
| Jeff |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I have voted Labor all my life
but every year it becomes harder, and issues like this are what
will eventually tip the balance for me. |
| Janet |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please respect the integrity and
intrinsic value of NSW native fauna, especially in NSW National
Parks. There must ba complete ban from hunting and shooting
in all National Parks. |
| David |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Pam |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am appalled and beside myself
with anger at this Bill. I cannot believe it would be even considered.
Anyone who supports its passing completely loses credibility
and better be ready for the community backlash. |
| Ann |
PLEASE -Oppose the Game Amendment
Bill -Do NOT Allow Hunting in National Parks |
We can't believe that our Government
would contemplate taking such a backward step as to allow hunting
in our National Parks. PLEASE, protect our parks and native
animals and keep these magnificent areas for the enjoyment of
the majority of people who want to enjoy them in safety. |
| Julie |
Oppose the Game Council Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As I see it, this Bill is very
backward step for wildlife conservation. Of course we should
be controlling feral animals but in National Parks, recreational
hunting is not the way to go. Private game reserves are also
an extremely unwise idea where pandering to the recreational
"needs' of a few could have drastic consequences in the long
term if exotic birds escape into the wild as they inevitably
will. This is how so many of our feral animal populations began
- with the introduction of exotic species for recreational hunting
in the 19th century. Surely we have learned a lot since those
days! |
| Margaret |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Recreational shooters in National
Parks is both dangerous and contrary to the conservation values
important in protecting our native species. |
| Kel |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I respectfully ask that you and
your cabinet change your minds, and not proceed with the legislation
that will permit recreational hunting of native animals in our
National Parks by shooters groups. The only shooting that should
be permitted in our national parks is the culling of feral animals,
and that should only be carried out by national Parks officers
as part of scientific programs. Please read the remainder of
this email. |
| Gary |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a community Representative on
the Royal National Park Intergovernmental/Community Deer Working
Party, the Committee has rigorously avoided overtures by Hunters
to be allowed to cull deer from Royal National Park, preferring
to use shooters from Rural Lands Protection Board in order to
guarantee safety and correct ecological approaches to pest control.
An opening up of this to amateur hunters will, I believe, be
a retrograde step, and from experience, I strongly encourage
you to oppose the Bill before Parliament. |
| Linda |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Christina |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Sue |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I live on the Central Coast, in
an area with many National Parks. I am deeply disturbed by the
suggestion that some of the parks be opened to recreational
shooters. Apart from the obvious dangers associated with non-professionals
being let loose in places where members of the public want to
spend their hard-earned recreational time bushwalking, etc,
I understand there is no evidence that this sort of policy has
made any impression on the populations of non-native animals
and birds. In fact, it seems to have the reverse effect. |
| Susan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Barry |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Tony |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Recreational shooting does not
control feral animal populations, and the evidence shows that
hobby shooters disrupt proper pest control programmes. |
| Mary |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Hunting as a sport should be prohibited
as KILLING FOR FUN is a bizarre form of RECREATION that should
NEVER be allowed or encouraged; it is inhumane and impossible
to control or monitor. We do not want trigger happy hunters
ANYWHERE, particularly not in our National Parks and public
land. As to releasing exotic species - have we learnt nothing?
STOP THIS. |
| Win |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Les |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in NSW National Parks |
Also I am very concerned about
the potential of private game reserves as most of such of these
have had a history eventually of poor to negligent management. |
| Tony |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
On behalf of Orange Field Naturalist
and Conservation Society |
| Colleen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Helen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Betty |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am concerned about the use of
National Parks for purposes that seem to me to be alien to the
protection and conservation of environment and habitat for native
species. I fear that people who are interested in hunting will
not have the interests of protection of native flora and fauna
at heart |
| Kathe |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks Danger:Feral Humans
loose in National Parks |
To allow this bill to go ahead
will create even seriousfurther problems given the fact that
there is a gun culture which is not always able to control who
shoots and what is shot. Many shooters would not have proper
knowledge about native birds and animals, and as we've seen,
for example, firefighting organisations can't always vet who
joins; arsonists find them good cover. Further, people visit
national parks– there could be serious accidents causing death
or injury; if govts. allow this very badly thought out proposition
to go ahead they will certainly be liable for any costs incurred
when this happens, as it inevitably will. What is also not properly
thought out is the psychology connected to shooting with its
connection to 'masculinity', aggression and violence.We've got
enough of this globally without imposing it on our Parks. There
are better ways to deal with what's happening regarding ferals
besides supporting armament industries and by extension, shooters. |
| David |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This would appear to be absolutely
the worst piece of legislation that has been brought to my notice
in many years. It appears to contravene the whole purpose of
national parks and, if enacted, would take NSW back several
decades in attitudes relating humans and their environment.
It is a step diametrically opposed to the direction in which
we should be travelling. I feel so strongly about this matter
that, if this legislation is enacted, I will never, ever vote
again for a Labor government - though I have done so for over
30 years. |
| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Edna |
Please vote for me on this matter. |
Why kill any native animal? Certainly
take the non native animals out. But to let receational shooters
in is very irresponsible as there will be the 'trigger happy'
element shooting at anything that moves. We all know what damage
in many ways is caused by non indigenous animals and plants.
I don't need to tell you that I am sure. Plese vote againt this
proposed legislation on my behalf, regards Edna. |
| Evelyn |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
any culling of feral animals should
be done by National Parks themselves so that it is controlled,
humane and organised. |
| Sue |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Noels |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I and my fellow bushwalking friends
are very very concerned and in need your immediate attention
to the above Bill. |
| Les |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Just one accident / death of a
bushwalker is not what you want on your conscience. |
| Judy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Frances |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Kurt |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Sir we have been lobbying for so
long to allow Mountain bikes to be allowed into Nation parks
that it seems ridiculous. walkers and bird watchers continually
complain about us. Yet you will allow hunters into the parks
?? come on Sir be real Kurt Lees address Supplied for your correspondence |
| Lisa |
lisa@chamsoft.com.au |
I would urge you to not consider
passing legislation to allow hunters into our National Parks.
i have had experiences in Europe of bushwalking with hunters
in the park. It is very frigthening and people have been known
to be accidently shot. As well the peace and calm that our National
Parks provide, they are a national treasure and firearms have
no place. In Europe I noted the lack of wildlife, particularly
birds. Shooters represent such a small minority of the population
it is criminal that the government is held to ransom by a minority
group who currently hold the balance of power. The Labor party
needs to oppose this legislation and demonstrate to the electorate
that it can hold true to at least some core party values and
maintain some integrity. |
| Alan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am saddened to see action being
planned which will undo years of work in the way we have established
and cared for our national parks and their inhabitants.The concept
of hunting game reserves absolutely appals me. |
| Julie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Georgia |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is the craziest thing I ever
heard of. You can't be serious! |
| Stephen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please do not pass this BILL. |
| Vivian |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please allow our national parks
to be left alone so that mu grandchildren can enjoy them with
native animals from only Austrlaia being in them. |
| christopher |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
this is the most ridiculous thing
I have ever heard - if red neck need to kill, let them kill
each other. |
| Margaret |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
We need a safer way to eradicate
feral animals, if that is indeed the prime purpose of this bill. |
| Cassandra |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Australia's National Parks are
the jewels in her crown. |
| Andrew |
Please Don't Allow Hunting in National
Parks |
You must not do a deal with the
Shooters Party and support the Game Bill. |
| Peter |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Hunting in National Parks is certain
to lead to the accidental shooting of many native animals also. |
| Sam |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
The Game and Feral Animal Control
Amendment Bill 2009 represents a fundamental assault on the
New South Wales environment. |
| Mary |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Hubert |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a member of NPA and fond user
of our beautiful national parks, I cannot undestand even the
consideration of allowing hunters in National parks. |
| Daniel |
Game and Feral Animal Control Amendment
Bill 2009 |
As a regular visitor to the many
spectacular and beautiful National Parks in NSW, I am shocked
at this proposal which will allow these important public spaces
to be used as recreational hunting grounds. |
| Debra |
Re. Game Amendment Bill |
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| Patrick |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
There is no need for this Bill.Australians
unlike the American do not have a culture of senseless killing
of animals for " sport " .If people wish to shoot they are able
to utilise the facilities of gun clubs ie, target shooting .I
repeat do not support this Bill just to secure support for Labor
legislation from THE Shooters Party .Gun laws have alreay been
relaxed by your government in response to The Shooters Party
support for Labor Party policy. |
| Martin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Elisabeth and Kenneth |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
There is enough destructive activity
sanctioned in our National Parks and people with 4-wheel drives
and mountain bikes think they are enjoying nature by bashing
it up. By granting lincences to shoot animals we are allowing
an even wider variety of people to follow their odd ideas of
"enjoying nature". |
| Rod |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Anabel |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Howard |
National Parks for Natural Diversity!! |
National Parks protect our natural
heritage. Allowing hunters in to shoot will disrupt the natural
balance. The science demonstrates that hunters will not effectively
reduce feral species in national parks but will greatly disturb
our natural heritage. For the sake of our unique environment
and for the benefit of future generations I urge you not to
support this legislation. |
| Russell |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
You've got to be kidding!!! |
| Denis |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I vehemently oppose the draft legislation
- on environmental grounds and from a safety point of view.
Your Government will be a laughing stock in the eyes of environmentalists
if you pass this legislation. Kindly do not shame yourselves
any further. Denis, Voter Robertson NSW (Kiama Electorate). |
| Joan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Graham |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Sue |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Julie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
No shooters in National Parks.
This is only the start. Do not allow guns in NP's |
| Kathrin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Frances |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Robyne |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
You are meant to represent all
residents of this State, both young and old. Our Society is
beseiged with the growth of violence in its midst. We must do
all possible to reverse this trend for the sake of those who
follow us and whose young voices cannot yet be heard. Do not
accede to the demands of those who must fire guns at living
creatures, whether human or animal. Rather, return us to the
santuary of nature free from human predators .....this is our
birthright and the common property of all New South Wales residents. |
| Rodney |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Margaret |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
It is imperative that we protect
our native fauna by not introducing feral animals and ensuring
their safe breeding grounds. The number of native fauna that
has become endangered or threatened each year is growing with
loss of hapitat. We need to ensure that they have adequate protection
and this bill threatens their existence. |
| Elizabeth |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I urge you to oppose this bill,
for us, and for the generations to come! |
| Alan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am a keen bushwalker and spend
many hours each week enjoying the peace and serenity of our
National Parks. This Bill is abhorant and if passed will not
only threaten my safety but also the safety of all living creatures
in our parks. Passing this Bill may not only result in many
native animals being killed it may also cause the death of the
NSW Labour Party. Enjoying our National Parks is the right of
all citizens, allowing recreational hunting in our parks would
result in handing this enjoyment over to a minority group at
the expense of everybody and everything. |
| jan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
we have already experienced the
cruelty of shooting of Heritage Brumby horses recently in the
McPherson's range area of NSW. This is a prime example of random
thrill seeking shooters out for a weekend of sport regardless
of the pain and suffering they inflict on all aminals, exotic
and native. Please do not allow such a destructive bill to be
passed. |
| Peggy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
We live beside the Oaks National
Park Track and this issue is a serious one for us. |
| Beverley |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am astounded that the idea of
shooters being allowed in a National Park has even been considered.
Apart from being dangerous for all bushwalkers using the tracks(of
which I am a regular user) how can it be guaranteed that native
animals will not be at risk. After all the dedication and hard
work put in by NPWS personnel to save these animals from extinction,
I can only protest vigourously about this matter.For all to
be put at risk for a minority group is ludicrous and votes will
surely be lost next election. Why should shooters be let out
into the open anyway, we are already in danger in State Forests,
now this. Please rethink this idea for the good of all. |
| Julie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I have worked with children and
teachers in environmental education for many years, often taking
my students into National Parks. Hunting by individuals in our
national parks is not a solution to the problem of feral animals.
The notion of hunting of animals is absolutely incompatible
with the ethic of care that we work so hard to establish in
our young people |
| melanie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Margaret |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Robert |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This bill is a retrograde step
for NSW biodiversity conservation and public safety. I have
first hand experience in conservation and vertebrate pest control
in a number of jurisdictions and countries. From my experience
and research, recreational hunting is not a practical or viable
pest species tool and can exacerbate pest problems in protected
areas due to hunters releasing animals into new areas to expand
hunting oportunities. |
| Judy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
If feel very strongly that National
Parks should be sanctuaries for all creatures. They are not
places that should be used for slaughter by enthusiastic gun-toting
people who may not have the skills to distinguish between threatened
native animals and feral animals. Along with State forests,
they should be places of peace and relaxation, one must not
be constantly looking out for shooters! |
| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
If firearms are ever permitted
in National Parks, it will certainly scare off all other visiters.
This will copst the state dearly. |
| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Wendy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I can't believe this Bill is even
being considered! |
| Tammy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks definitely do!!!! |
I certainly in no way support this
bill - as a wildlife carer I feel that all native animals will
suffer to the point where most WILL BE EXINCT BECAUSE OF THIS
BILL. I also wonder whether the licenced hunters will be taught
properly how to id the animals/birds or whether they will just
shoot for the sake of shooting. Secondly I am worried about
the national parks who allow campers in, will they get shot
accidently? lastly, I feel that the government has opened up
a very large hornets nest with this bill as everyone in Australia
does love their native wildlife to some degree, it is because
of this that I do very much, with all my heart oppose this bill.
Why do we have to let our wildlife go down the gurgler just
to support another political party? This is wrong do not, I
say do not go ahead with this bill. For it will be the end for
our wildlife!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Alexa |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a regular user of national parks
and state forests for peaceful recreation I am totally appalled
by the content of the Game and Feral Animal Control Amendment
Bill. I also believe that the Shooters Party do not have widespead
support in this state and should not be appeased for short term
political reasons. |
| Nehama |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Roy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Caroline |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Craig |
Game Amendment Bill - Do Not Allow
Hunting in National Parks |
As a regular user of national parks
throughout NSW, I would like to express my strong opposition
to proposals within the Game Ammendment Bill. As both a regular
walker and mountain biker, I and my family am shocked that such
a bill would even be considered, never mind look likely to succeed.
With many other National Park users, I have been involved in
the long and at times frustrating process of expanding access
for mountain biking. Some progress has been made through the
efforts of all involved to ensure that due process is followed
and a mature, responsible attitude is brought to bear in reaching
a suitable compromise which allows meaningfull access for all
of the different user groups while maintaining the highest level
of environmental protection. I am frankly flabbergasted that
I am not allowed to take a mountain bike into certain parts
of National Parks but I could quite legally go there if I had
a hunting rifle ( and presumably the 4wd vehicle that goes with
it...). Perhaps I should simply shed my morals and strap a rifle
to my back when I go for a bike ride. This bill is surely beyond
reason |
| Ralf |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Violette |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Rinaldo |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Beatriz |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Ronald |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jenny |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am extremely concerned about
the proposal to allow recreational hunting in National Parks.
My family has a National Parks permit and regularly spend time
in National Parks throughout NSW to enjoy the peaceful environments.
I am concerned that such a proposal will negatively impact on
the safety of not only humans visiting National Parks but the
native animals and the environment itself. |
| Frederico |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Catherine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Diana |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am extremely concerned that the
NSW Government would consider such an amendment to undermine
the intent of conservation in NSW. National Parks are for enjoying
the biodiversity of our native animals not as targets for an
out of touch group of people who have an unusual idea of their
role in the of control of feral animals. Follow the lead of
other countries, show leadership in the protection of our unique
fauna ,do not allow short sighted groups to influence and undermine
the advances that have been made in this state in the conservation
of our wildlife.REJECT THIS GAME AND FERAL ANIMAL CONTROL AMENDMENT
BILL 2009. |
| Jan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I was outraged when I saw the advertisement
in the local paper for shooting goats for sport. This is a retrograde
step - get rid of gun lobbies and respect defenceless animals
please!!! |
| Robert |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please save our National Parks
for future generations! |
| Robyn |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks . |
Surely National Parks are for protecting
and preserving our native animals. This would not be in the
best interest of the parks, the native animals and the majority
of people who want to use them for recreational purposes. |
| Edward |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
National Parks are established
for conservation and enjoyment of the greater population. Firing
Ranges are for shooters. Gaming on private reserves may be alright.
Any culling and reduction of overstock of any species should
be done by licensed shooters under contract in specific localities
with the area's affected closed temporarily to public usage. |
| Anita |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please consider the repercussions
if you support this bill. |
| Wendy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Janja |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| David |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a member of the Labor Party,
I strongly oppose the Game and Feral Animal control Amendment
Bill. |
| Jane |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Alan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Robert |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
It's time for this government to
stop being the state's most destructive force. Say "NO" to this
rediculous proposed legislation. |
| Judy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Peter |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am the Meeeeembership Secretary
of the WEA Illawarra Ramblers Bushwalking club and wish to advise
that our whole committee and club strongly oppse shooting in
National Parks. The club has 220 members at the moment and word
of mouth will spread the message far and wide. |
| Peter |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am the Membership Secretary of
the WEA Illawarra Ramblers Bushwalking club and wish to advise
that our whole committee and club strongly oppse shooting in
National Parks. The club has 220 members at the moment and word
of mouth will spread the message far and wide. |
| Ute |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Surely our National Parks and wildlife
are facing enough threats today without this latest plan from
recreational shooters. They are a minority and have no right
to destroy the poor remnants that have been preserved for the
nation at great cost over the last hundred years. |
| Peter |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I agree that feral animals need
to be and should be culled. I also agree some native animals
can usefully culled and used as a food resource. However I am
dead against hunting just for sport, or game reserves and the
release of game animals. This seems to hark back to the earlier
unenlightened days of the colony. Sport hunting is just downright
cruel and introducing game animals carries unacceptable risks
to our fragile and struggling Australian ecosystems. |
| David |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks 2009 |
No Form of hunting should be allowed
in National Parks. No hunting of native animals should be allowed
in national parks. Only National Parks managers should cull
feral animals . I totally oppose hunters having access to the
most important conservation reserves in Australia. If the Labor
Party supports this legislation allied to shooting lobby groups
I will oppose and lobby against the NSW Party at the next NSW
election |
| Graeme |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jim |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I have downloaded and read the
proposed changes to the Game and Feral Animal Control Act and
I am horified. Allowing recreational shooters into our National
Parks will lead to a disaster. In the Lower Hunter region feral
pigs have suddenly appeared in places in state forests where
they had hitherto been absent. Locals say they were deliberately
released by the shooters. Allowing shooters into public forests
has been a serious mistake. Allowing them into National Parks
would be a great disaster. National parks exist to preserve
our native flora and fauna for future generations. Please keep
it that way. |
| Rosemary |
Strong objection to the Game Amendment
Bill - keep National Parks safe for animals and people |
I strongly oppose the opening of
National Parks for recreational shooting and having any native
animals on a shooting list. I regularly visit National Parks
with my family to enjoy the wonders of nature, particularly
the birds and plants. If this Bill is passed we will no longer
feel safe in them. I will be constantly on edge and so my relaxation,
enjoyment and peace of mind will be removed. National Parks
are one of the only places in our busy world where I can feel
this sense freedom. I also strongly object to this freedom being
removed from the native animals. Surely National Parks are there
for their protection too! Please do not remove it by voting
for this Bill. I am also greatly concerned about the speed of
the presentation of this Bill and the lack of opportunity for
wide public debate. I suspect it is because the proposers of
the Bill are concerned that they are in the minority. |
| Carole |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Australia is a very fragile continent,
and I am appalled that the Labour Party would even consider
supporting this. |
| Elizabeth |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| June |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Margaret |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Coleta |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Angela |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Stephanie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
We do not need to assist or promote
the use of dangerous fire arms. Any approval for the use of
guns especially in the public domain ie National Parks will
result in disaster. I do not support the inexpert slaugter of
our native animals or any animal by any novice shooter who can
manage to obtain a gun licence or tag-along with someone who
has a licence. This is only a hobby or pass time and should
never be allowed. there are safer more humane ways of dealing
with feral pests. Please hear the voice of reason on this issue. |
| Noelene |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I strongly disagree with the proposal
to permit recreational hunting in National Parks and the creation
of private game reserves. There are already too many feral animals
in the Australian bush and we do not want opportunities created
for these numbers to be increased. National Parks staff do not
seem equipped to control feral species in our National Parks
and I believe this should be done in a coordinated way by professional
shooters as part of the Management Plan not on an ad hoc basis
by members of the public who happen to have a firearms licence. |
| John |
Do Not Allow Hunting in National
Parks - Reject the Game Amendment Bill |
I believe that this is an extremely
dangerous and ill-considered piece of legislation. |
| Michael |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Basrbara |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Ian |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Despite the arguments of those
who support this Bill, it is difficult not to see its core purpose
as being that of allowing a Davy Crockett mentality to play
a disturbing, and potentially damaging, role in the complex
issues of environmental protection. People who see any kind
of weapon as a valid means of problem solving are dangerously
irrelevant, and should be regarded as such. |
| Judith |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As an active,longterm bushwalker
and frequent visitor to National Parks, I fully endorse the
content of this email.Please give it your most serious and urgent
consideration. |
| michael and boo |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| fiona |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Anthony |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks or further encourage
feral animals |
As a professional biologist with
more than 30 years service with a leading national research
organisation I am deeply concerned that there is now before
the NSW Parliament proposed legislation that would enable a
significant change in the control of hunting in National Parks
in NSW. Australian Governments over the past decade or two have
spent significant sums of public money in developing a network
of national parks and conservation area across Australia. This
has been with the support of the Australian public for the benefit
of conservation of the Australian fauna and flora. The proposed
Game and Feral Animal Control Amendment Bill 2009 currently
before the NSW Parliament will under much of the work that has
been achieved over this period. In addition the proposed establishment
of game parks that could be stocked with feral animals can only
increase the risks of the further spread of feral animals across
the State. As a society we should be encouraging the eradication
of feral species. Where eradication is not achievable then we
should be taking steps that limit the further spread of such
species not legislate to facilitate the spread of such species.
I urge you to oppose this legislation in its entirety. |
| Maggie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am appalled by the possibility
of this legislation being passed. The Labour Govts have, over
the years, done some pretty stupid things. This is up there
with the worst ! |
| Lynne |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
No comment could adequately express
my outrage at this proposal. Governemnt policy is to limit gun
ownership - it seems logical to limit opportunities to use them,
but to suggest that there is a possibilty that these people
with the guns should be allowed to shoot native animals in national
parks is so outrageous, I cannot believe any politician would
risk their career by even entertaining the notion. |
| Graeme |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am a print worker, have pride
in being a unionist, and have many work mates who enjoy their
hunting and fishing trips. Although over the years I have become
an avid birdwatcher and prefer to observe rather than kill,
I must say that I have no great objection to regulated hunting
and fishing, but on hearing of this proposed legislation I thought
I should let my feelings be noted. Support for this bill would,
I believe,reflect very badly on an already troubled ALP government
in NSW. |
| Mark |
Game Amendment Bill - PLEASE DO
NOT ALLOW Hunting in OUR NATIONAL Parks |
Our National Parks are for the
people. With the permission of hunters the parks suddenly become
unsafe for tourism, overseas visitors and the general public.
This is likely to increases the number of guns in Australia.
I thought we were a gun free society! Many of our wildlife are
protected and disappearing. The shooters will more than likely
help decrease numbers even further. |
| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Iain |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Dick |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Premier, these are bad ill-conceived
policies and if enacted will cost you my vote at least |
| Bren |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
We have personally experienced
the danger presented by the use of firearms in nearby state
forests. There is no bulletproof fence that will keep us safe.
recreational hunters are a threat to our safety and have not
reduced feral threat to native animals in our experience. |
| Reece |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I find it hard to believe that
relatively low-impact activities such as mountain biking are
prohibited in national parks, but you are considering allowing
game hunting in these preserves. |
| Emma |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Dani |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Action like this will only lead
to the further degredation of our wilderness areas. I cannot
believe that this is even being considered, even the safety
basis it should not occur. |
| (Mrs) Dale |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I oppose the ownership of personal
firearms (within club confines tolerated). The permission of
hunters to shoot in national parks is abhorrent. Please oppose
this legislation. |
| Pauline |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is an absolutely unbelievable
and abominable piece of legislation which has only come to my
knowledge today. Why it has not been well publicised and open
to public opinion is beyond my comprehension. |
| Hester |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| John |
No Hunting In National Parks |
Dear Premier. Please.....no hunting
in National Parks. |
| judy |
I oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Narelle |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am opposed to any game hunting
especially in forestry areas some neighbour the Wattagans Nat.
Pk. and am appalled that consideration is being given to extend
this practice. |
| Suzanne |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- No guns in National Parks |
Broken promises have become the
norm for all aspiring and incumbent politicans across Australia.
The proposed legisaltion provides the NSW Government with a
window of opportunity to show promises made can be ket. How
can I, my family or my friends ever a national (?) park in NSW
again? I know of a number of national parks where illegal shooting
takes place and it will only be a matter of time before a person
who is entering a national parks for one of the purposes for
which it was created, is injured or killed? I say NO to recreational
hunting in national parks, NO to recreational hunting of native
animals, No to private game reserves and No to any legislation
which undermines feral animal control efforts across NSW. Australia
stands condemned for loss of species by human action and if
the NSW Labor Government passes the Game Council Amendment Bill
2009, then it will further sully our appalling record in this
matter. |
| Robin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a keen mountain bike rider and
some time bush walker I frequent National Parks very regularly.
I simply cannot believe that anyone could think allowing hunting
within our National Parks is acceptable. Nor that anyone could
think introducing new species anywhere would be acceptable -
have we learned nothing from rabbit, the cane toad, feral cats
and dog, etc, etc. |
| Michael and Jenny |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is madness; I expect anything
that moves will be shot, possibly even human beings. |
| Kevin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am deeply concerned that such
a culture of firearms is gaining accptance in our society for
the sake of political expediency. The proposed amendments are
not based on the ecology of Australias fauna, which undergo
boom and bust cycles, yet will have significant effects on populations
in the few remaing refuges that are the state reserve system.
Allowing hunting in State Forests is alrady affecting tourism
and is not reducing overall populations of feral animals. Hunters
will tell you off the record that they always leave a breeding
group so there will be game for next time. If hunters are true
conservationists why are they not killing cane toads and indian
mynas which are on the increase. |
| Sandra |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Keith |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I can imagine what the majority
of the overseas visitors I take out into the parks to birdwatch
will say when they hear a gun blast as they were peacefuly sat
watching birds.I can not think of one positive aspect to endorse
such a plan, it should never have got as far as it has. |
| Robert |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Nathan, The release of exotic animals
has proved disastrous for Australia. Rabbits and foxes are just
the most obvious and economically destructive. Private game
reserves stocked with exotic species could see more harmful
pests and diseases introduced. For the sake of our environment
and agriculture please do not support this bill. Cheers, Robert
McKinlay |
| Roger |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Doreen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am a keen bushwalker and also
volunteer my time to lead walks in the various National Parks.
To share these parks with people who enjoy shooting animals
borders on the insanity I have come to expect from a NSW Labour
government. Come on Barry O'Farrell - we need you. On the other
hand, perhaps we could get the current NSW government to walk
through the parks whilst the shooters are there while we all
watch. What sport that would be!! |
| Ariel |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is an absolutely ludicrous,
dangerous and unnecessary idea. It is only happening because
NSW government owes the Shooters Party for the support they've
given to other bad bills rushed through parliament by your government
to the detriment of our state and its inhabitants. |
| Alan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a longtime Labor supporter,
I cannot accept that your Government would allow recreational
hunters to operate in our people's parks. We must not only protect
nature but also provide sacred areas free from danger and killing
fields. If feral animals need controlling let it be done for
the protection of nature not for the thrill of those who enjoy
killing and hunting |
| Andrew |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Kay |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Native animals and birds have the
right to be safe in National parks. Their entire habitat has
been dwindling through peoples disregard of their importance.
People need to be safe in these areas as well. Shooters let
loose will start a mammoth series of ecological disasters. If
shooters wish to "target" use authorised gun clubs at their
expense. Member of WIRES. conserving nature |
| Merilyn |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Merilyn |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Sandra |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
The shooting of native birds &
animals in National Parks is cruel, inhumane & totally unacceptable
to wildlife carers who struggle to save & protect our precious
wildlife. |
| Ingeborg |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a regular visitor to our National
Parks I am horrified at this proposal!!! |
| David |
My Personal Comments on the Game
Amendment Bill |
My personal comments: I urge you
to consider the following points regarding this Bill: > This
Bill will completely destroy your Party’s environmental credibility
with a large sector of the public. You cannot declare a wilderness
area one week and then hand it over to the Shooters the next
week. > If your intention is to increase visitation to National
Parks, then this Bill in counterproductive. Families will not
visit National Parks when they perceive that their family members
are in danger of being shot at. Tour operators will not take
their clients to Parks for the same reason. The activities of
Shooters will be impossible to police. > The concept of allowing
private game reserves and importing exotic birds should have
been rejected outright … does your Party want to forever bear
the stigma of allowing the import of cane toads with wings?
In Conclusion: |
| Jeremy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Raymond |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am very concerned that Labour
will support this Bill, not on the merits of the case, but simply
to secure the votes of the red-neck Shooters Party (this is
NOT Texas). I & my friends regularly cycle, bush walk, bird
watch,& camp in National Parks & State Forests. Only last W/E
we enquired re walking in East Cookeys Plains SF and, whilst
given the OK, were told that 9 permits for "conservation shooting"
had been granted for that forest alone since January (the thin
edge of the wedge). Whilst I support the control of feral animals
in NPs, this should be carried out by present techniques. Where
shooting is required the parks should be closed & shooting carried
out either by NP&WS staff or by supervised contracted professional
shooters NOT sporting shooters. I predict that it is only a
matter of time before someone is shot dead in SFs and, if the
new legislation is passed, in a National Park. That will be
most inconvenient if it happens close to the next election. |
| Claire |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Nola |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Julia |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Wendy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
While this proposed Bill is totally
unnecessary and dangerous it will also have a big impact on
the recreational use of National Parks by families. At present
an enjoyable outing I would not consider taking the family into
an area where there are possibly recreational shooters on the
loose! This Bill is against all that National Parks stand for. |
| Jan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Karen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
In recent years, it seems the importance
of our natural environment has been under increasing attack
from people who do not appreciate the value or need for conservation,
and in particular, our national parks. It seems certain lobby
groups see national parks as a resource to be exploited rather
than as an essential measure for the conservation of our wildlife.
Tourism is one such lobby group, the Shooters Party another.
I am appalled that the Government would contemplate listening
to these anti-conservation lobby groups at a time when the natural
environment is under increasing pressure from climate change
and population growth. |
| Fiona |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Do not allow a vocal and cashed-up
minority to override the wishes of the majority and the interests
of our environment. |
| Mark |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Steven |
Opposition to the Game Amendment
Bill and the consequent Hunting in National Parks |
The proposed Game and Feral Animal
Control Amendment Bill 2009 is not much more than a sop to the
Shooters' Party and to other vested interests (i.e. the fur
trade, "recreational" shooters and the gun lobby) as a return
of the favour the Shooters' Party did the Iemma government by
lending its support to the latest round of amendments to the
EP+A Act. At a time when biological diversity is under increasing
threat from unabated land clearing, and will be at the mercy
of increasing stresses from the vicissitudes of climate change,
the proposed Bill is unconscionable. There is no justification,
either moral or scientific, for the measures proposed in the
execrable Bill, nor are any of the so-called "safeguards" within
the Bill anything other than an attempt to fool the voters into
thinking that the correct checks and balances are in place to
control the shooting of native wildlife. |
| Beverley |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am a bushwalker, and already
we cannot walk safely in State Forests for threats of hunting
=- what will happen if National Parks become hunting grounds?
We go to enjoy the tranquillity of the bush, and enjoy the the
wildlife. Hunting will limit the lives of all fauna and humans
in National Parks. |
| John and Jennifer |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As nature lovers, bird watchers,
bushwalkers and campers we have a right and an expectation to
be able to safely pursue these activities in National Parks
without fear of being shot!!! Any feral animal control should
only be done by trained National Park Rangers not by recreational
shooters and absolutely no further exotic species and game animals
should be introduced to either public or private lands for hunting
purposes. This is not AMERICA ! Recreational hunters with guns
do not belong in National Parks and we will never vote for any
party or individual again who supports this legislation by the
Shooters Party. National Parks and Nature reserves should be
havens of peace and tranquility for both humans and nature.
Don't let rednecks with guns run loose in them !!! |
| Nick |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Maureen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Having spent many years as a conservation
volunteer (NPWS Advisory Committees, Landcare activities at
State, regional and local level) I am appalled that all the
efforts of volunteers in the community to protect biodiversity
values across the landscape have been so readily cast aside
for the benefit of a few hunters. |
| Rolf |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks Nature has no votes |
With rednecks like shooters and
politicians who need their vote how can nature survive? Please
think beyond vote buying and save our heritage areas for our
kids. Yopu and I will be forgotten by the time our criminal
damage is acknowledged |
| Yuri |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is an appalling and irresponsible
legislation |
| Ian |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Peter |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Peter |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Quite simply this Bill is a unacceptable
threat to the safety of the people of NSW and to the natural
environment of NSW. I am still upset by the fact that I have
to pay to go to a national park and now you are thinking about
compromising my safety for the privilege. |
| Patricia |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Ian |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As an environmental consultant
with a background in park management, I know that recreational
shooting is completely ineffective in controlling feral animal
populations. The claimed justifications for this ridiculous
legislation are quite simply false. On the other hand, the risks
are enormous. These include further introductions of new feral
species and spread of existing species, and disruption of professional
control programs. One example: feral deer have now invaded southern
Kosciuszko National Park from Victoria, where they are hunted
both inside and outside national parks. Any politician that
votes for any part of this legislation will demonstrate their
complete ignorance of conservation and disregard for the urgent
need to properly control all feral animals - a major threat
to our remaining biodiversity. |
| Lyndal |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Hunting should NEVER be allowed
in National parks |
| Valerie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Merran |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Our walking group is already finding
that having hunters in State Forests is a safety concern. We
do not want to see hunters allowed into our National Parks. |
| Beth |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
The Invasive Species Council (Victoria)
has reviewed evidence from all around the world and it is clear
that recreational hunters rarely, if ever, contribute usefully
or economically to effective control programs for feral or native
animals. Claims to the contrary are false and misleading. It
is outrageous that the Game Council should be seeking further
advantage for a private organisation already subsidised by your
Government - at likely further cost, NOT SAVINGS, to NSW taxpayers. |
| William |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Sue |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I can't believe that the government
is really proposing this legislation. Don't you care about our
native animals that are already under threat from other man-made
causes ? I used to be a Labour voter, but more and more I am
finding that I don't agree with your policies and find you couldn't
care less about the environment. The Greens certainly get my
vote now. This is the last straw for me. |
| David |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Anna |
I oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Please do not allow hunting in National Parks |
Only the NPWS should have rights
to remove feral animals from our National Parks. I contend that
"hunting" is a gross and cruel expression of blood lust and
should not be encouraged or condoned in any form by the government. |
| Wiliam |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jane |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Such legislation is a backward
step. Feral animals must be controlled but only by experts under
strictly controlled contracts administered by scientists with
experience in feral species control. Hunters are sportsmen and
will pose a risk to native species and humans using national
parks. |
| jonathan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Lorna |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| carol |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Liz |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
We are keen walkers and enjoy the
peace and tranquility of OUR national parks. Clearly, this Bill
will put those that use the parks at risk. It is crucial that
OUR national parks remain free of hunting of any description. |
| Richard |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Ian |
I Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
When news of this Bill reaches
the public, any politcal advantage you may have gained in supporting
it will be overwhelmingly offset by adverse public sentiment.
Don't shoot yourself in the foot. |
| Joanna |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
this is short sighted, unethical
legislation - our children have a right to protection of national
parkes fragile ecosystems free of game hunting and the introduction
of more feral species. Labour will definately lose my vote if
this legislation is passed |
| Micheal |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am absolutely disgusted at this
legislation particularly because of the disgusting collaboration
of the Labor Party & Fred Nile just for political reasons -I
will remember this ! |
| Lesley & Ian |
VEHEMENTLY Oppose the Game Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Australian Native wildlife is under
significant pressure just by our existence... it is unthinkable
that we should allow further opportunities for native wildlife
to be anihilated. Does this Labor Govt. want to be known as
the govt. which further facilitated the demise of our native
wildlife. PLEASE DO NOT GO AHEAD WITH THIS BILL!! |
| Roxana |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Karen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a former member of the South
Coast Regional Advisory Committee of the National Parks and
Wildlife Service, I am very concerned about the proposed legislation. |
| Fiona |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a wildlife artist of over 30
years experience I am acutely aware of the intricacy and diversity
of the Australian bush and the complex interdepence of its many
species. Interference with this delicate balance can have wide
repercussions. We have recently bought a bush block out west
and already we have felt threatened by passing roo-shooters
spotlighting from the road in our direction whilst we are camping
or birdwatching at night. I wouldn't want visitors to National
Parks to feel that anxiety as well. |
| Chris |
Do Not Allow Hunting in National
Parks |
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| Peter |
I Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Please Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please don't allow any shooting
in our national parks. Our native animals are having enough
trouble surviving with out the risk of being shot even accidentally.
There is also the bigger risk of humans being shot accidentally.
If there are no guns in our National parks we will all be better
off. |
| Rosamund |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Bryan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Robin and Warwick |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
We and our families are regular
users of the Blue Mountains National Park, and other national
parks in the state. We are appalled at the suggestion that shooting
might be legalised within the park system. |
| Paul |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Andrew |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Hunting of native animals in National
Parks must surely be an idea from the Chaser's War on Everything,
it is so daft. Native animals have their backs to the wall everywhere
through loss of habitat and now people want to kill them in
the only safe habitat left! The passage of this law would make
NSW a global laughing stock - the laugh being tragic - and likely
to reduce tourism, and end the current NSW government |
| Moxon |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As I am sure you can now see, running
the State by political expediency is a downward spiral. The
wild areas and National Parks of this State and nation and their
flora and fauna must be proactively and properly protected for
the sake of our environment and the education and enjoyment
of our children and their children's children. Previous efforts
of feral species and particularly weed control have been grossly
inadequate. Dont let a group of narrow focused self-interested
armed dilettantes apply political pressure to have their say
in the management of the wild areas and National Parks of our
State. |
| Caitlin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I can't believe this would even
be considered. As someone who was a WIRES volunteer for a few
years I've rescued native animals and birds that have suffered
from us in all sorts of ways - our housing development, our
cars that run them over, our pets that kill and wound them.
But this?? Are you serious??? Bloody hell let's just napalm
them and get it over with if this is the sort of thing we'd
consider. Please, do the sensible thing, vote against the bill,
against the silly people with guns, and in favour of the poor
long suffering native animal population. |
| Nicky |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Tyrrell |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Roanna |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jim |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am a member of a bushwalking
club, a heavy national park user and a long time committed Labor
voter. I simply can't see many positives in the Game Amendment
Bill, but many negatives, which are set out below. Further,
I feel that this Bill will be unpopular with many who tend to
align themselves with Labour and green issues generally. |
| Katrina |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Geoffrey |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
The concept of this bill is so
antediluvian that it beggars belief.If the governemnt supports
it then it will cause itself further irreparable damage. I would
have thought it would try to portray itself as a contemporary
party which is in touch with the 21st century. |
| Liz |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please protect our wildlife and
native habitat......keep shooters out of our National Parks......and
keep firearms out of their sadistic hands. |
| Kerry |
Game Amendment Bill - Do Not Allow
Hunting in National Parks |
I bushwalk. I belong to a bushwalking
club. There are many bushwalking clubs in NSW. Ever since your
government passed legislation allowing hunting and shooting
shooting in State Forests, I can no longer bushwalk in NSW State
Forests because I'm likely to be shot. If you pass this legislation
to allow hunting and shooting in NSW National Parks, I will
no longer be able to bushwalk at all. and thousands of bushwalkers
will be similarly affected. I demand that this proposed legislation
be rejected. |
| Alison |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please do not allow hunting in
national parks |
| david |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Robert |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As someone who has been a long
time Labor supporter and a keen walker who has gained many years
of enjoyment from our National Parks, I find it abhorrent that
Labor would side with the Shooters Party on this appalling Bill.
I take this so seriously that I will vote against Labor in every
election if you support this Bill. Given NSW Labor's poor opinion
polling in recent times I think it would be ill advised that
you further erode your support base by siding with the Shooters
Party. |
| Bernice |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Please Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks. |
I have been in the Forests in America
in 'Hunting season' and it is truly frightening -warnings over
the radio for hikers to wear bright clothes - as a hunters reaction
may be to shoot anything that moves. It would be a truly sad
day for Australia if this was to be allowed to happen. Guns
are made to kill. |
| Graham |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Arwen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I cannot believe that this proposal
could even be contemplated, it seems so ludicrously dangerous
both to native wildlife and to any people who wish to enjoy
the bush. I certainly will not be at ease taking my little kids
walking or camping if there could be someone out there taking
pot shots at small things rustling in the bushes! |
| chris |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Paul |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I believe National Parks should
continue to be protected for all time from recreational hunting.
Our natural environment is being constantly eroded, National
Parks are one of the only ways of protecting such environments.
Human beings need a place to connect with nature to remain human,
and National Parks have become more and more important with
increasing population and urbanisation. To allow shooting in
such places is madness. Please protect the original ideals of
these areas. |
| Eduardo |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Michael |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Pat |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I strongly oppose any hunting of
game or feral animals in national parks. |
| Paul |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
It is a step backwards to encourage
peole to 'hunt' for feral animals inf our forests at the possible
and very likely expense of native species, even if by accident.
To faicilate further use of guns is counterproductive to our
society anyway, regardless of where and for what purpose. Be
it on your record for the future if this becomes law. |
| Stefanie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Aina |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
The Game and Feral Animal Control
Amendment Bill 2009, which has been introduced by the Shooters
Party, is bad legislation. The proposed legislation will further
threaten native species, many of which are already threatened
by habitat destruction. |
| Jeffrey |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I and my family are traditional
Labor supporters, please do not support this Bill because it
is NOT LABOR to do so. Don't let us down. |
| Santana |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This legislation will tell the
world that we are NOT serious about halting or even slowing
the rate of extinction of our native wildlife - Please don't
let this happen. |
| Kathy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am most oppposed to our native
animals being slaughtered for the pleasure of shooters - a barbaric
sport. |
| ZITA |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
If this bill is passed you will
lose my vote in the next election!!! |
| Evan |
Please no hunting in National Parks |
I am profoundly upset by this proposed
change to legislation. I don't want to take my children to National
Parks and know that there might be hunting there. It is dangerous,
it upsets the peace of a park and most importantly how can I
teach my children that nature is to be treated with care and
respect if we allow hunting even in National Parks. Why as humans
are we incapable of accepting that animals have as much right
to life as we do? Why do we have to dominate and destroy all
nature for our short term pleasure/gain? Lastly if someone gets
injured by a hunter ( as inevitably they will) then the government
will be liable for allowing this. How will that sit on our conscience? |
| jason |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Letting hunters into our National
Parks is nothing short of insane, not only is it completely
irresponsible but rediculous, imagine letting someone hunt native
animals inside parks that are used by local, interstate and
international visitors. Do not pass this bill unless you want
to turn OUR parks into a cross between America's obsession with
hunting and a rancid game park in South Africa. |
| Rhonda |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I sincerely hope that our native
wildlife will have your full support instead of a small number
of people who are not concerned with native wildlife or the
environment. Please protect our innocent Australians. |
| Kate |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Lauren |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am a post graduate student who
has always been proud of Australia's extensive National Parks
and the effort put into preserving our delicate ecosystem. I
am also a long time Labor voter. |
| Greg |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This has to be the most ill-conceived
plan for the on going management of national parks in NSW. Will
your government seriously consider allowing hunting, especially
for native animals, in national parks? I have voted ALP for
nearly 40 yrs, Rusted on? This might be a rust remover! I haven't
forgotten the Olympic Park V8's.Now a World Rally in Far North
Coast forests. I really doubt that this govt. wants to be re-elected. |
| Merrilee |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Renee |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Please Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks! |
I am extremely concerned about
the upcoming bill allowing hunting in National Parks. |
| Gay |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Members of Willoughby Environmental
Protection Association (WEPA) Inc cannot believe that a government
wishing to be regarded as the greenest government ever could
even contemplate supporting such a Bill. |
| Natasha |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Every 2 secs a native animal is
killed on NSW roads, and add to that tally another is killed
or injured by our pets, feral animals, poison and land clearing.
As a WIRES rescuer and carer for over 15 years and living on
the edge of the Royal National Park, Sydney I'm very much aware
of the already huge impact urbanisation has had on our native
wildlife and biodiversity. And yet this proposed BILL wants
to remove native wildlife's last sanctuary by permitting hunters
into our national parks ? And its extremely likely that highly
endangered animals would fall victim to rifle shots too. Even
the Australian white ibis is on the hit list. Its just recently
that facts have emerged that because the birds live to over
30 years of age, are migratory and subject to climate change,
there is no true indication of their national population. In
their natural homeland of the Murray Darling, the Ibis has failed
to breed in over a decade. So the mass destruction of their
eggs, when Sydney thought them to be a 'pest' may well have
jeopardised the specie's future. And it could well be classified
endangered in the next ten-twenty years. And yet it too is on
the list. Bounties were once placed on wedge tailed eagles and
the Tasmanian Tiger, allow Hunters into the National Parks and
you will open the door to similar and new environmental disasters
and species extinction. Is this really the epoch, the NSW Ministry
for the Environment and Climate changes wants to be remembered
for? Providing shooting licences for trophy hunters of what
is supposed to be protected native wildlife in protected and
conserved national parks? Imagine all the yahoos and trophy
hunters too that would be lining up for a licence, and waiting
to bag their first black swan? No matter what controls or bag
limits placed, once an animal is dead, its dead. So when the
threatened BlueBill Duck is shot dead & discovered too late
by a Park ranger, 'Oops sorry mate, it looked just like a Pacifc
Black duck from over here' or an endangered Yellow-Footed Rock
Wallaby is killed. Do you think the hunters will care or own
up to speeding up the rate of extinction? |
| Lyndal |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Timothy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Rachel |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
We have destroyed enough of our
country. Please put a stop to this bill. |
| Marion |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
PROTECT OUR WILDLIFE ! |
| Mike |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
National Parks are for the protection
of wildlife, not for "game parks". These weekend warriors are
likely to "shoot everything that moves" especially in an area
free from feral animals. The possibility of the intentional
introduction of feral animals into Parks so far free of them
is real. The "Acclimatisation Society" could easily be reborn.
Beside this, I do not want to risk my life every time I go into
a Park by being shot at by some bunch of shooters. These people
are not professional shooters, even feral animals are likely
to suffer agonising deaths at their hands. |
| Ruth |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| bill |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Robert |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This proposal is crazy, takes the
national parks environment back 100 years and makes NSW a laughingstock.
My family and I don't want to be shot at while out bushwalking.
You were elected to be a leader. How about showing some leadership
by standing up to the shooter's party! |
| Ian |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Carol |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| judy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Georgie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is a national disgrace. National
Parks are suppose to be a sanctuary for our native animals -
a place where they can be protected from hunters. The Shooters
Party already has 2 million hectares set aside for their 'questionable'
recreational needs. National Parks is also a place where all
Australians are able to enjoy pristine wilderness and see animals
in their natural habitats - this is quite clearly a vote grabbing
stunt to have other legislation passed in the future for the
labour party. Dirty politics seems to be endemic no matter what
side of politics you are on. It would be a pleasant surprise
to see a politician act with integrity every once in a while
especially when it really counts! |
| Di |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
No place for hunting in national
parks. |
| Ross |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This goes directly against the
legislated requirements of the plans of management for a national
park for which they have been gazetted and are managed as such. |
| vivien |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| alexandra |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Alec |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Open Hunting in National Parks |
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| Amy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Sue |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Our native wildlife have suffered
enough changes to their habitat & I see no need for them to
be hunted in our national parks. |
| Gregory |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
National Parks are for the protection
of our (the people's and the planet's) natural heritage. They
are not shoot-em-up galleries for the amusement of a few red-necks.
Rather than acceeding to their requests based on short term
political expediancy, I encourage you to fund education campaigns
to assist such people to understand that they are themselves
a part of nature, just like the rest of us. Do not contemplate
the releasing of any additional species into Australia, no matter
how well contained you think they may be. We have enough already
! Do you want to be known as the person who let in the next
cane toad? Our environment deserves to be treated better, not
worse. |
| Felicity |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am appaled at the idea of guns
being used in National Parks and cannot believe that we have
not learnt that the introduction of exotic animals and insects
have merely created more problems over the decades. |
| Jann |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Donald |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I have just become aware of this
bill and am shocked that it is being considered at all. It makes
no sense at all. The introductory speech praises the efforts
of "volunteer conservation hunters" for their efforts to remove
foxes from state forests and sites foxes as an agricultural
problem that costs the state hundreds of millions of dollars.
This shows clearly how stupid it is to introduce game for hunting,
as was done in the 19th century with foxes. This bill explicitly
allows the introduction of further exotic game to forests for
the purpose of hunting. It brings us back to the sort of stupidity
European settlers showed in 1850. |
| Joanne |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Meredith |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Recreational hunting in National
Parks can only be dangerous, for wildlife and humans. |
| Joel |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Rowan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please consider the NSW that we
will leave to future generations. In the short time since Federation
we have destroyed parts of this country that have taken millenia
to form. We have damaged the fragile ecosystem and have wreaked
havoc with non-native species of flora and fauna. |
| Jeff |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
In years gone by governments have
discourage firearms in this country by doing buy back schemes.
Supporting any sort of firearm activity is just opening up avenues
for aggresion and violence. |
| Allan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
If this is supported by the government
it will be thew last time I ever vote labor on a state level. |
| Vivian |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Disgusting. |
| Leigh |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Adam |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Melanie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Gavin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
this is beyond a joke, how the
government can allow this is just not right |
| Christina |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Martin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Hi My Dad goes bushwalking in National
Parks and I would hate to think that he may be put in danger
a stray bullet or some misplaced shooter who has wandered into
the wrong area. Firearms are deadly restrict there use! |
| Ken |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
How can I allow myself, my family
or any other friends to use the National Parks if hunting in
National Parks is legalised? You would be stealing their safe
use from us for the benefit of a community questionable small
group of people. |
| Domenica |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am astounded and horrified that
it is even being considered, in this day and age. I have always
been a labor supporter, but this Amendment WILL alter my voting
in the future. |
| Kerinne |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Peter |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Helen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I strongly oppose this Bill. The
NSW conservation estate has been reserved primarily by successive
labor governments with a strong stated commitment to biodiversity
conservation and nature based outdoor activities. Allowing recreational
shooting in National Parks under the guise of feral animal control
is a retrograde step that undermines the original purpose for
which these lands were protected. |
| Judy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I was horrified to hear of the
proposal to allow hunting in National Parks. This is a negation
of all that National Parks stand for, and would surely destroy
any appeal such places hold for tourists. |
| Julie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a resident of the Blue Mountains,
a wilderness area already feeling the effects of human intervention
in the form of weeds and waste escaping from gardens into the
bush and waterways, I can't believe shooters could be allowed
to tramp around this and other wilderness areas damaging plants
and native animals along with the feral ones. |
| Elizabeth |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Michelle |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| James |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Patricia |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Nicholas |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Kevin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Andrew |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Rachel |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This Bill undermines the fundamental
purpose of National Parks; to conserve and protect the native
biota within them. |
| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This proposed legislation has the
potential to undermine many years of hard work to secure a world
class national park system for all people in NSW and satisfies
only a minority of people. Our Parks need protection for future
generations and this Bill will not achieve that end |
| Spencer |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Tim |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I find it very hard to believe
that this could even be contemplated. This is the worst example
of environmental backsliding I have ever heard of. The hunting
of native animals in national parks mean that nowhere can our
native wildlife be safe from exploitation. Even the hunting
of feral animals in national parks cannot be considered due
to the safety concerns involved. Do you want to death of a person
innocently bushwalking a then shot by some 'hunter' who really
could be anyone on your conscience? I urge ALL parliamentarians
to oppose this outrageous proposal from a small party who seem
drunk with their own importance. If this goes through, there
will be an absolutely huge backlash from not just 'greenies'
but the wider public. Don't even think about it. |
| margaret |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
we have been involved in landcare
activities all our lives as volunteers, and have supported the
labor party for as long.......we part company with both if this
bill is passed. |
| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This proposal is an archaic step
backward. I live on a 5 acre property and have a battle as it
is to control feral weeds and animals. Please do not pass this
legislation. |
| Lorraine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Bill |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
There is no place for hunting of
any kind in the National Parkes, State Conservation Areas or
Nature Reserves in NSW. These areas are set aside for Biodiversity
management and need to be managed accordingly. National Parks
are by definition places for people to go to enjoy the Nature
of Australia, they cannot be subject to Hunters using the same
areas. |
| Charlotte |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| christine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Our species are already struggling
and many are extinct or threatened with extinction. Allowing
shooting will only bring many species closer to extinction.
How can you let this happen? National Parks are the only hope
they have of surviving. Use of guns in National Parks will also
see an increase use in society as more people will want to own
guns. Over time this will create a gun culture in society. Guns
are for killing. Is this what we want? The implications of the
bill need to be considered seriously. Anything that encourages
killing behaviour needs to be avoided. |
| Noel |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Delia |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jenny |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Tony |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| David |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| William |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Nancy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Martin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Edward |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is not the way to go. |
| William |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
To even consider passing this appalling
bill would be akin to political suicide and if you don't personally
care about the animals, you should at least think about your
own political future. |
| Dinamara |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Holly |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
It is astounding that Australia
would even considering legislation of this nature. We have a
pristine environment and are a culture that respects its wildlife. |
| Don |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Bradley |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Trish |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This Bill must not be allowed to
be passed,it will allow indiscriminate shooting by recreational
hunters who obviously take joy in killing our wonderful birds
& native animals. If it is to be allowed in our National Parks
it will not only be the wildlife that is in danger but also
the many people that take great joy in visiting these wonderful
places. |
| Jeanette |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I have just this morning been made
aware of this Game Amendment Bill being discussed this week
in parliament. I am absolutely against the proposal of the Shooters
Party to allow hunting in National Parks. This is totally opposed
to the good and appropriate work being done to save our endangered
species and to set aside parks and other areas for providing
and securing safe and natural habitat for all our native fauna! |
| Lisa |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Hunting is a horrible sport. I
dont want an American mentality to guns in Australia, which
is what game hunting will bring. I do not want guns & killing
in Australian national parks - they are supposed to be there
to protect our flora & fauna. We should be protecting all our
native animals & iliminating any risks from more ferals . I
cant beleive this is even being considered! It is outrageous. |
| Michael |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| fran |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
To even consider introducing this
legislation is a step back into a barbaric era. So mnay native
species (Birds, mammals and insects) are currently endnagered
that this proposal if to come tofruition would put all animals
(including humans) in danger. The threat of this proposal cannot
be over emphasised. It is odious, inappropriate and completely
out of sync with current efforts to ensure our native populations
are cherished and allowed to live and prosper. |
| Laura |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Marion |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Bill |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Dear Mr Premier. It would be regrettable
were this Bill to be passed without full and searching understanding
of its implications for not only future environmental impacts
but impacts upon public use of, and perceptions of, National
Parks. Fundamentally, National Parks exist to provide amenity
for the Nation in that people of all persuasions know that part
of their Country is devoted to conservation of the natural world.
There should be no compromise of the basic tenets of National
Park establishment and perpetuation... as much as possible free
from human interference and ill-conceived development. I object
in the strongest terms. |
| Susan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Julie |
The Game Amendment Bill will make
us a laughing stock around the world |
I am gobsmacked that the NSW government
would even consider such a bill. If it was to be passed, it
woud be the death knell for NSW Labor. The shooting of animals
is the ideal vehicle for all opposition to unite under one banner
that will be ably supported by animal rights groups and animal
lovers across the state - and there are literally millions of
them. The suggestion of this Bill is political suicide for NSW
Labor. |
| Bev |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
The people of NSW would prefer
professional contractors employed by NPWS to control feral animals
in National Parks. The introduction of exotic species for hunting
will cause the next version of the rabbit or cane toad plague
in NSW. If the ALP supports this legislation, you can be assured
of losing the next state election. |
| Josie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Keep shooters out of National Parks.
National Parks are a protected area for our native species.
They are a place where Australians can experience unique flora
and fauna, if they do so in ways with minimal environmental
impact. Shooting will not protect the environment, and it will
make Parks unsafe for other visitors. Release of exotic species
into our National Parks places our unique flora and fauna at
huge risk. We can't afford to damage it further than it has
been already damaged with previous introductions of exotic species. |
| Roger |
I am opposed to hunting in National
Parks |
National Parks should be reserved
as places of wilderness for the enjoyment of current and future
generations. Allowing recreational hunting is not the answer
to controlling feral animals. Fire arms in public places, especially
in places meant for quiet enjoyment can only lead to the degradation
of that environment. |
| Gerardine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Geoff |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Kevin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This country has an appalling reputation
in keeping endangered species existant....the highest extinction
rate in the world...which is really something to ponder when
you look at the populations of other countries. To offset this
it was necessary to establish areas where endangered wildlife
could reside in relative safety...areas that became known as
National Parks. I do accept that it is necessary for hunting
to occur in these areas....if this is allowed it will be the
single most retrograde step this or any other Government has
taken in conservation of the Natural Heritage of this State.
Please consider all the aspects of this action from a broad
perspective and not merely a political one. This is a moral
and ethical question as well as a practical one.....the future
of Australian wildlife....endangered and not is at stake with
this precedent if it comes to pass. |
| Joy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I fully support the judicious culling
of feral animals in many parts of the country but allowing shooters
to fulfil this task would not work at all. Our very precious
native wildlife would be subjected to even more decimation. |
| Trevor |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Stephen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jamie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Sue |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Barbara |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am absolutely sickened by this
proposal. |
| Kevin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I have recently heard about the
introduction of this Bill into Parliament, and I find it hard
to believe that the NSW Labour Party is considering supporting
it. As set out below, it would not merely allow some recreational
hunting of existing feral animals, but would surely encourage
those irresponsible elements to introduce more animals into
our National Parks to boost their hunting pleasure. And surely,
a National Park is the last place we should allow the use of
firearms. |
| Kirsty |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Dear Premier, We have lost so many
unique flora and fauna in this country in the short 200 or so
years of colonisation. With feral animals still on the increase
it is vital that the government fund research and action to
remove these threats, however, to provide legislation that enshrines
access into national parks for sports hunting would sound the
death knell for many native species that are only just managing
to hang on. It is so very important that you oppose this Bill
on behalf of the majority of existing and future Australians. |
| Karen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Get rid of the foxes and deer but
don't touch our native animals. |
| Ashleigh |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I thought this was a bill being
passed in the USA and not in Australia. I just can't believe
that something like this could be considered in Australia. It
is some sort of weird joke? |
| Simone |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Pamela |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Matthew |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
The ridiculous content of this
Bill indicates it should never be seriously considered. It would
completely undermine conservation efforts and paint NSW as a
redneck backwater. |
| David |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| George |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am very disappointed to hear
the proposal for recreational hunting in national parks in New
South Wales. Hunting is difficult to reconcile with the large
number of other uses of these parks - they are already subject
to a reasonable number of "multiple uses" that appeal to a large
sector of the community. There is a sufficient area of private
land with numbers of feral animals to keep recreational hunters
usefully occupied. Professional, full time hunters and integrated
pest management using other methods than shooting should be
used for pest animal management in national parks and other
public land. |
| Veronica |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
If this is supported by the government
then I will be votong green in future with no preferences. |
| Joy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Danny |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Ronnie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
How low can our legislators get? |
| Graeme |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Allowing access to National Parks
for shooting is a disgrace and shamefull exercise. To allow
the shooting of native anaimals is appaling beyond understanding.
The excuse of feral animal control is pathetic. I live a where
I live because of the adjacent National Park. |
| Edward |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Allowing so called "hunting" of
native or any animals in our National Parks would be a disgrace. |
| Jocelyn |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I stronlgy oppose shooting in National
Parks. Shooters kill for pleasure and thus become a danger to
the peace of the country. They will also kill native birds,
koalas etc and in doing so destroy the very being of our national
parks which were set up to conserve native flora and fauna.
Fund the National Parks and Wildlife Service to adequately cope
with feral animals. |
| Andrew |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I visit many National Parks in
my local area for relaxation and bushwalking. I consider that
any culling of feral animals should only be carried under the
direct control of a governnment department. |
| Thomas |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Hunting in National Parks, Never,
Never, Never. There is no place for guns in this country, Full
Stop. |
| Mark |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please don't allow gun-toting bogans
to threaten public safety and harm our native wildlife. National
Parks should be for the preservation of native plants and animals
not a barrel for recreational hunters to shoot fish in. |
| Nicky |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Stephen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| James Earl |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Cameron |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Lynne |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Janet |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am alarmed by the scope of the
proposed amendments to the Game and Feral Animal Control Act,
particularly the opening up of national parks to recreational
shooting, allowing native wildlife to be targeted and allowing
exotic birds to be released. This bill again ignores the role
of Livestock Health and Pest Authorities as the lead agency
responsible for the control of pest species and the need for
integrated and professional approaches to pest management. |
| Belinda |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Christina |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Sally |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Hunting in National Parks will
make them unsafe for other users, and also breaks a Labor pre-selection
promise. I think allowing the killing of 10 native duck species
and numerous other bird species is deplorable. Feral animal
control in National Parks should be left to the NPA & not recreational
hunters. |
| marie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This would be a completely retrograde
step for the benefit of very few. We strongly oppose this legislation. |
| Rosy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I oppse the Game Amendment Bill
because I don't think it considers the long term well being
of our natural environment. If this Bill is passed than the
Government will be neglecting this well being and encrouaging
disturbance to the National Parks. Personally this will impact
on my decision when it comes to voting next election. |
| Christine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am truly shocked at such a move.
I believe this is not only a backward step; it is a criminal
step. Only a government acting from greed and a thwarted power
base would consider such a step. If this information travelled
overseas, it would also be very bad for the tourist industry. |
| Jonathan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Patrick |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Any national park in which people
have an excuse for being armed will be definitely off limits
to peaceful users, especially off limits to children, accompanied
or not. There is no basis for a belief that shooting can reduce
numbers of foxes, cats, pigs or any introduced species. Don't
encourage these Shooters Party People. Remember their behaviour
after the Port Arthur shooting. |
| Kim |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Margaret |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is terrible leglislation to
appease a sporting lobby group and has wide repercussions. I
am a part-owner of a property adjoing Kosciuszko National park
and we are terrorised by shooters and their hunting dogs, they
cut up the access roads with their $WDs and come through at
4 or 5 in the morning at will, cutting fences and bullets don't
neccessarily land within the designated area. A modern form
of bush-ranging. |
| AINSLIE |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
National parks are for native fauna
and flora, not just for people's pleasures, such as shooting.
To allow shooting will not help to control invasive feral animals.
It will lower the value of national parks as a tourist attraction
on the South Coast of NSW. |
| Margaret |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This bill has the potential to
undo years of protection of Threatened Species in National Parks
throughout NSW. |
| Sue |
NO to Recreational Shooters in
National Parks |
I am disturbed to hear that the
NSW government is considering a change to the Bill that will
allow recreational hunters to shoot in National Parks. The use
of recreational shooters as amateur feral animal controllers
is unproved. The literature supporting the success of this program
in State Forests is not referenced to multiple scientific studies
and seems to falsely champion the environmental pluses of this
practice. The possibility that maverick shooters are in fact
spreading feral animals for their enjoyment of their sport is
a concern. The huge amounts of funding given to the Game Council
have not proven effective. The government should apply funding
to professional efforts by the NPWS; use of recreational shooters
is NOT a sensible option. |
| Lynette |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
National Parks are for everyone
to use and for protection of native animals - hunters should
certainly not be allowed in them. |
| Danie |
Please Oppose the Game Amendment
Bill - Please Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This Bill is very unlikely to assist
in the control of feral animals in our National Parks. It may
contribute to the spread of existing feral animals and the establishment
of new feral species. It appears to undermine existing animal
welfare legislation and policy and will have adverse conservation
outcomes. Much of the bill appears to be at odds with the rationale
for National Parks, their management and biodiversity conservation. |
| Barry |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- No Hunting in National Parks! |
The Bill will not assist in the
control of feral animals in national parks, and is likely to
foster the spread of existing feral animals and the establishment
of new feral bird species. It undermines existing animal welfare
legislation and policy and will have adverse conservation outcomes.
Many of the provisions represent a radical change in the ethos
of national park management and biodiversity conservation. |
| david |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
National Parks should be for everyone
except hunters. |
| Susan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I wish to oppose the Game and Feral
Animal Control Amendment Bill 2009. I am a constant National
Park user and I do not wish to be endangered by hunting in National
Parks. I also strongly believe that recreational hunting is
not an appropriate or scientifically supported method for removing
feral animals from our ecosystems. There are very careful and
controlled methods needed to achieve this end. Do not open National
Parks to recreational shooters just to appease the Shooters
Party, you will be selling out a large number of your voter
base if you contemplate this. |
| Chris |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Living within shooting distance
of the Royal National Park I am concerned that some shooters
will not shoot responsibly, resulting in native animals being
shot and adjoining National Parks being less safe. |
| Stewart |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| marjorie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
In my opinion The Bill will not
assist in the control of feral animals in national parks. It
undermines existing animal welfare legislation and policy and
will have adverse conservation outcomes. Many of the provisions
represent a radical change in the ethos of national park management
and biodiversity conservation. I agree that pests such as rats
and rabbits etc need to be controled but we must learn how to
do this in as "environmentally friendly manner" as possible.
Shooting as a means of control will not work and many of our
native species will be shot. |
| susannah |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am writing to communicate my
concern regarding the threat to our precious and endemic wildlife. |
| Lorraine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I strongly oppose the Game Amendment
Bill, we are struggling to keep our native birds alive and in
good numbers if exoctic birds are allowed into game reserves
they will escape and cause more negative impact on our species.
National Parks are for people to enjoy our native flora and
fauna. As we have seen in the past people who have a disregard
for animals and birds also have a disregard for the enviroment,
this will have a high cost impact on roads and maybe peopls
lives. Guns should only be in organised clubs not in National
Parks. |
| Nancy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Recreational hunting will lead
to more guns in our community; more feral animals - not fewer
and would take away from most people their right to safely enjoy
national parks. I strongly oppose this bill. |
| Rebecca |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Christine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Adrian |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is a joke, wanton killing
of kangaroos, birdlife including galah's and cockatoo's in our
National Parks. If you want to kill animals nominate introduced
species such as Deer and Pigs. |
| Geoff |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jo |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Elizabeth |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This bill is not acceptable and
I urge you all to reject it. |
| lisa |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
End Native Forest logging |
| Eileen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Alison |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Passing this bill would achive
no environmental objectives - please leave our national parks
to fulfil the environmental benefits they are designed to, and
do not allow hunting in national parks. |
| tony |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This legislation must not be passed,
I live across the road from the Deua NP and feel it would be
very unsafe for my kids to be playing outside if this was allowed
to happen. |
| scott |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This legislation is not only archaic
but would run in complete opposition to the National Parks Bill
- its ridiculous |
| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Australia's unique natural environment,
its flora and fauna are too precious to suffer such a devastating
potential loss of protection. Future generations will blame
us all for such dmage and loss. |
| Wendy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Tracy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
If you are seriously considering
it, consider it the end of any relationship we have with our
land |
| Rose |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Erica |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Dreadful to allow recreational
shooters into NationalParks with their guns. There are other
ways to control feral animals that should be considered first.
Lord Howe Island has successfully eradicated feral goats and
they didn't use recreational shooters. Please do not pass this
bill. |
| Cheryl |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I live next to a national park
and already have to put up with illegal trail bike riders because
they cant be caught, whose going to keep the shooters honest.
I also horse ride in the park (legally), shooting will make
that impossible for me. I think there should be less guns licenses
issued, let them shoot targets not live creatures. |
| Sam |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Megan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a conservationist and animal
carer with WIRES for 9 years I find the Game Amendment Bill
as proposed by your Government ill considered and a threat to
our unique native wildlife |
| Steve |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill |
As a wildlife rehabilitator, former
president of the Native Animal Network and a founding member
of the NSW Wildlife Council I oppose the propose Game and Feral
Animal Control Amendment Bill 2009. I have witnessed first-hand
the many and varied problems associated with legal culls on
private property. The issues I am aware of are in a relatively
prescribed environment, involving a relatively small number
of (allegedly) professional shooters. The provisions proposed
in this new Bill will most likely create far more problems for
wildlife (incidental kills) and threats for visitors than is
currently the case. Further, the degree of discretionary power
intended for the Minister and Game Council means that what little
protection currently exists can be eroded without further legislative
safeguards. It is accepted fact that the existing situation
is not monitored due to a lack of resources, and there is nothing
in the proposed bill which addresses this issue. Therefore,
it is reasonable to assume that there would be minimal oversight
given to compliance with the intended safeguards. While all
sorts of well-intentioned platitudes are offered in support
of this Bill. I submit that this is nothing but a bid to loosen
control of hunting, including the use of firearms and hunting
dogs in areas reserved for wildlife and the enjoyment of nature. |
| deborah |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jill |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Theo |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I do not support recreational hunting
in NSW National Parks and Reserves. The most effective feral
animal controll is by baiting and trapping. Allowing recreational
shooters on National Parks land will only disrupt this important
feral animal controll. |
| Stuart |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Kenneth |
edgark@optusnet.com.au |
I have read a number of documents
on this issue. I believe that the proposed legislation is most
unwise & should not be passed. Recreational shooting should
not be extended to National Parks. Nor should private game reserves
be allowed. Recreational shooting is only effective in very
few situations & in most cases is ineffective or likely to exacerbate
the problem of feral animals. The current opportunities for
recreational hunting are quite adequate & shoul not be extended. |
| Mara |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
NO HUNTING IN NATIONAL PARKS! |
| Carmel |
No Hunting in National Parks |
This Bill should be opposed in
its entirety. It is an outrageous, unprecedented step backwards
in the protection afforded to National Parks and the native
wildlife which reside in them. It will forever undermine the
integrity of the National Parks system and tarnish the credibility
of the NSW Government. It should be thoroughly rejected. |
| Helen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am shocked that recreational
hunting would even be under consideration, national parks i
thought were for the public to enjoy our environment without
risking accidental injury, noise pollution and finding native
animals killed by hunters. Not to mention the numbers of accidental
gunshot injuries per year in the USA, some fatal. |
| Claire |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks!! |
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| Bernie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Christine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please honour your promise made
in 2007 that there would be no recreational hunting allowed
in NSW National Parks. |
| Nicole |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please do not consider this proposed
bill. The primary mandate of National Parks is to preserve our
ever dwingling natural ecosystems and any proposed hunting other
than the eradication of damaging feral animals is in complete
contrast to this. |
| Chris |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I have experienced first-hand nearly
been shot by recreational hunters in Blackfellows Hand Reserve
near Lithgow on 26 March 2009. Many people visit this area in
the belief it is part of the Wollemi National Park. However,
professional hunters seem to be oblivious to land boundaries
and other recreational users of an area. |
| Natasha |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| christopher |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting or car racing in National Parks |
First car races and now hunting
in our national parks. What next - nuclear test perhaps. Is
this merely short sightedness on the government's part, or is
it some kind of plot to destroy our eco tourism industry? |
| Julie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I support the control of feral
animals in National Parks, but certainly not any of our native
birds and animals. |
| Margaret |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks or the establishment
of private Game reserves, the shooting of more native species
and song-birds, and the weakening of laws governing shooting. |
Our family strongly opposes this
Bill, which would threaten the safety of those who enjoy National
Parks and wilderness areas, encourage the destruction of native
species as "game" (some of the birds and animals listed for
inclusion on the "game" list I have never had the privilege
to see) as well as introduced song-birds which give everyone
pleasure and do no harm. It will encourage the introduction
of non-indgenous species, to threaten the ecology, as well as
weakening laws which protect the public and prevent cruelty
to animals. It will foster a whole culture of violent and destructive
behaviour and lack of respect for the general public and our
natural heritage. Our native fauna does not belong to the hunters
for shooting, but to all Australians for their peaceful enjoyment.
PLEASE STOP THIS BILL |
| Richard |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Inger |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
The hunting of native animals in
areas set aside for protection and conservation is an outrageous
proposal. That shooters will be able to restrain themselves
to selected species, in a safe and sustainable way, is a very
doubtful proposition. And to consider setting up game parks
stocked with living creatures for the sole purpose of bringing
about their violent death and injury for a small group of people
who find this 'enjoyable' is totally inhumane. |
| Maggie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Go out there and look for yourselves
what impact this may have! |
| Max |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I find it absolutely reprehensible
of the State Labor Government to consider such an outrageous
proposal and object most veheremently to it being considered
as a possibility for our National Parks in NSW. |
| Judith |
Game and Feral. Animal Control
Amendment Bill 2009 |
I absolutely oppose the introduction
of recreational hunting in National Parks. There are ample,
more appropriate opportunities for the hunting of feral animals
to be carried out beyond the borders of NP's. National Parks
have been specifically set up for the protection, research and
preservation of natural ecosystems and the environment, and
also for the education and enjoyment of ALL members of the general
public. WE MUST KEEP THEM THAT WAY. |
| Robyn |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Roland |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Sandra |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Joseph |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Ireni |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Dodie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Robert |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I sugest that this activity will
be occurring on the friges of parks where many diverse groups,
including families, already use the facilities and will be put
in danger. I dont believe ifs and buts and restraints will be
successful in limiting dangerous gun useage. Or are we going
to encourage these people to jump into off road vehicles to
reach remote and supposedly safe sites. Yet another notch in
the framework of protection for our natural places just like
the proposals for more tourism which willbe costly because of
restraints and thus only available to those who can afford it. |
| My |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Susan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Penelope |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Please Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
We aren't Americans, we don't want
to start pandering to the gun lobby. |
| Sarah |
Please Oppose the Game Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am deeply disappointed to hear
that this bill is being seriously considered. |
| alan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jane |
NO Hunting in National Parks |
Movement corridoors and safe havens
for indigenous fauna are essential. Moreover, human visitors
to National Parks need to feel safe. The barbarous butchery
of roos grazing agricultural land continues elsewhere. This
is about all that Parks stand for. It is about standing up to
the shooters' and fishing lobbies in order to protect some small
areas of Australia from further degradation. |
| Bruce |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please, PLEASE. This time listen
to the constituents of NSW and not give into the gun lobby.
Shooting is not sport unless the other side is shooting back,
then we have another name for it. |
| Margaret |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please do not allow this Amendment
to pass. It is unconscionable that such a Bill is even being
discussed. National Parks should NEVER become hunting grounds.
Surely our society has learned from the past. |
| Joy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a member of an organisation
which is dedicated to the welfare of our native animals and
protected species, I find these proposals to be totally unacceptable |
| Ian |
Opposition to the Game Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| jeanie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks. |
How dare you? National Parks are
no place for the indiscriminate (or any other kind) of killing
OUR native animals! It WILL NOT be allowed to happen. You will
all be OUT on your ear! You had better do a VERY quick rethink! |
| sharron |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Patrick |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Denise |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am an ordinary retired Australian
citizen who cannot believe that such a bill would even be considered.
I do understand the damage caused by feral animals but can't
see that such a radical move as to introduce shooting in national
parks is necessary. Surely there must be another way to control
the pests. I will never never never support the shooting of
native game animals of any sort. I thought national parks were
for the animals to be safe!!! We have some of the most unique
birds and animals in the world. This is an archaic practice
that must not happen especially in our national parks. |
| Brad |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Tanya |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Stop death for fun! |
| Judi |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
National Parks are refuges for
native animals, many of them vulnerable to extinction. Their
integrity as places of refuge may be crucial to species survival
and the maintenance of biodiversity. As such, they are not a
place for recreation that takes the form of killing by people
of dubious skill and motivation. Necessary feral control can
and should be done by trained DECC personnel ONLY. Keep recreational
firearms, picnicking families and vulnerable animals SEPARATE. |
| Judy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This bill goes against all public
expectations of what a national park should be. |
| Heather |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Even though this is a form letter,
it adequately covers my views on this issue. Our national parks
and reserves are the last place some of our critically endangered
wildlife still survive. I have seen the results of indiscrimate
'recreational' hunting so I doubt that endangered wildlife would
be safe if these changes go ahead. I urge you to keep National
parks and reserves as havens for out wildlife. |
| strett |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Lorraine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Kerry |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Nick |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Carol |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Janina |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Vulnerable, Threatened, Endangered
& then there's Extinct..How many of Australia's Unique Native
Wildlife have to suffer for these people. Shooting is not a
sport it is a killing machine, there is no sport in killing |
| Mary Lois and Daniel Andrew |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is really unthinkable!!!!
Many people work hard to ensure that our native wildlife can
be protected. Endangering these defenceless animals, not to
mention non-hunting people using the national parks, is not
only morally wrong, but economically wrong, when tourism suffers
as a result. To pass this legislation would be both morally
evil and politically unsound. |
| Barbara |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Our National Parks are beautiful
and should be protected at all costs. I regard shooters as a
dangerous breed of people, this could encourage a Martin Bryant
type of person. |
| Juliana |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Francois |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Yuki |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Mark |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Angela |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Craig |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Shelley |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am totally opposed to this Bill-
it is destructive in the extreme, both environmentally and socially. |
| Simone |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
The small amount of faith I have
in our Government will be lost if this Bill is passed |
| Ruth |
PLEASE oppose the Game Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
How can we teach our young people
not to use violence if they and their elders are encouraged
to use it for entertainment, against native and other animals.
This is the height of hipocracy. |
| Donald |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I do not nor do I expect my parlimentry
represenatives to support recreational shooting or trophy shooting
in National Parks or Nature Reserves. |
| Sue |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This legislation looks like something
from the 19th or early 20th century! It harks back to a different
era when we had little knowledge of conservation and the best
methods of and feral animal control. I urge you to reject it. |
| Sandrine & Arlan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
My husband and I are absolutely
shocked to read that a Bill autorising hunting in National parks
is to be voted without prior public debate. We believe that
most Australian citizens would oppose that law if only they
were aware that such Bill was being considered. Shouldn't this
be in the front news rather than this ridiculous "Utegate" ?!
We are lucky to live in a country that protects its wildlife
within these amazing natural sanctuaries that are National Park,
please let's keep it this way... We would really like to be
able to keep bushwalking and birdwatching safely in a National
Park without being worried to come across a group of armed recreational
hunters... |
| Su Li |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Martha |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
It would be a travesty if shooters
would be allowed into our National Parks. I beg you to forbid
it. |
| Revd Clive H |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Sooner or later a child or adult
will be injured or killer by shooters if allowed in National
Parks; one accident is not worth this Amendment or having it
on your conscience. We do not want to go down the America path
of subservience to the "gun lobby", even John Howard recognised
that. |
| Leanne |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Helen |
Allowing Hunting in National Parks
in Disgraceful |
Premier, recently, the attacks
on our wildlife and environment, given the okay by your government,
have appalled me. Is it not enough that you are forcing the
people of the Tweed and Kyogle to have a destructive car rally
run through some of their most wonderful, unspoilt areas which
abound with wildlife. No, you now support the killing of animals
in our National Parks. I implore you to reconsider your support
for this bill. |
| Judy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am horrified that you are even
giving any consideration to this. |
| Dennis |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Dear Premier, my family and I including
children and our grandparents ,use the state forests and national
parks regularly for recreational walking and sometimes camping
overnight. We are very concerned about any risk from hunting
in these public spaces. I am a licenced gun owner and a target
club shooter but I would never support extending hunting to
national parks and native species. Dennis Ismay |
| Paul |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I think that this proposal is a
barbaric act of the cruellest dimensions. It is inappropriate
in this day and age that such a thing could even be considered! |
| Kathy |
Game Amendment Bill - Please Do
Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
One of the most magical things
about this country is the diversity of its wildlife. |
| paul |
I Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
i am absolutely horrified over
this proposed legislation and if passed i will never again support
the labour party with my vote. |
| Sally |
I Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
and Hunting in National Parks |
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| Myra & Phillip |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Being Wildlife people who have
devoted most of our lives caring for animals/birds, it would
be a great step backwards for Australia should this Bill be
permitted to even consider what is being offered by the Game
& Feral Animal Amendment Bill - whether people like animals
or not - we are sharing this world with them and we personally
will always try to be there for them - not destory them. No-one
has that right!! We have been always been involved with animals
making sure that endangered species are protected and help with
the breeding process necessary to ensure this - we devote part
of our every day lives caring for animals so there is no need
to elaborate the extent of how we feel about this drastic for
of maiming and killing - for no sane reason and for sport. It
disgusts me to think about how any Law under these circumstances
can be passed. God help Australia and the native animals. |
| Cara |
Strong Opposition to the Game Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Amanda |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Vanessa |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I have been enjoying NSW National
Parks for a number of years and was horrified to hear about
this proposed Bill. National Parks are a place for rest, a place
to connect with our beautiful environment and, if you're lucky,
catch a glimpse of some live native wildlife. To allow the shooting
of native wildlife in protected areas would be barbaric. There
are so many issues arising from this Bill that i am finding
it difficult to fathom why your government would consider such
a proposal. What about the safety of people enjoying time in
the park? what about the threatened species that could be mistaken
for non-threatened ones on your list of what to shoot? what
about the fact that people travel to national parks to see native
wildlife alive? |
| Gregory |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Dear Premier, please consider a
full rejection of the proposal from The Shooters Party known
as the Game and Feral Animal Control Ammendment Bill 2009. This
is a regressive proposal that needs to be rejected. Native animals
in New South Wales do it tough enough with inadequate protection
from development and the rural community causing habitat reduction
and destruction. We need to act now. Be proactive and deny shooters
the recreational pleasure of destroying native animals. The
Public is aware of the inadequacies of the Game Council and
the bias of the NPWS in the shooting of macropods for commercial
and damage mitigation. Be known as the Man who stood for the
people, flora and fauna of NSW and deny the political pressure
from a minority who are most vocal when they can use leaverage
to get what they want. Now is the time to make a statement to
NSW constituents and the whole of Australia...please lead the
way Premier. I believe that it will be not do you or the Labour
Party any favours to support this Bill. I will be making it
my business to appeal by voicing my opinions in any arena in
protest of those who support this Bill.Regards, Gregory Keightley. |
| Gregory |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Dear Premier, please consider a
full rejection of the proposal from The Shooters Party known
as the Game and Feral Animal Control Ammendment Bill 2009. This
is a regressive proposal that needs to be rejected. Native animals
in New South Wales do it tough enough with inadequate protection
from development and the rural community causing habitat reduction
and destruction. We need to act now. Be proactive and deny shooters
the recreational pleasure of destroying native animals. The
Public is aware of the inadequacies of the Game Council and
the bias of the NPWS in the shooting of macropods for commercial
and damage mitigation. Be known as the Man who stood for the
people, flora and fauna of NSW and deny the political pressure
from a minority who are most vocal when they can use leaverage
to get what they want. Now is the time to make a statement to
NSW constituents and the whole of Australia...please lead the
way Premier. I believe that it will be not do you or the Labour
Party any favours to support this Bill. I will be making it
my business to appeal by voicing my opinions in any arena in
protest of those who support this Bill.Regards, Gregory Keightley. |
| Wendy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please reconsider the true impacts
of the introduction of this Bill. The repercussions for our
native fauna will be devastating. It leaves the door wide open
for the introduction of further feral pests, and also endangers
the lives of bushwalkers in the near vicinity of shooters. |
| Simone |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| charles |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| John David |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a landowner living adjacent
to a State Forest who is living in fear, as a result of some
14 invasions of my property by hunters, which to the best of
my knowledge no action has been taken by either the police or
Game Council, I can only see disaster coming from this legisalation.
police or the Game Council. |
| Sergio |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is an eburrising step backwards,
please dont pass the amendement bill |
| Pam |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am appalled that such a bill
could even be considered. Our national parks should definitely
not be used for licensed shooters to decimate even more of the
wildlife than they are currently doing. National Parks should
be a safe haven for animals, birds and people. What kind of
message are we giving our children - our native animals and
birds are unique. I protest very strongly against this bill
and the ramifications of such a proposal. |
| Ingrid |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| DAVID |
The Game Amendment Bill--A Betrayal
of Conservation |
I have been a landholder for 60
years and like many primary producers do not have a shoot and
kill mentality. This Bill is a smoke screen for boys with guns
and cowboy suits. |
| Christine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
The list of animals that is proposed
as targets by the shooters is long - it is highly unlikely that
in the heat of the moment the shooter will rush to the list,
check that the animal or bird is one of the allowed targets,
and then shoot. They most likely will shoot indiscrimately,
thus probably affecting our protected, endangered or much-loved
native species. There are so many reasons why this bill should
NOT be allowed, please consider this country, the animals which
are so much part of our culture, and resist all pressure to
pass this bill, for the future of Australia, its peoples and
fauna. |
| Frances |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jacky |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Janet |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please, this change would ignore
all the accumulated evidence. |
| Doug |
Please Oppose the Game Amendment
Bill - Hunting in National Parks is totally outrageous |
The Parks and Playgrounds Movement
is a community organisation established in the early 1930s.
Its secretary was the C E W Bean, the historian, lawyer and
journalist. It was brought to Newcastle in 1952 by R.E. Farrell,
and continues the work to safeguard our Natural and Cultural
Heritage. The Movement is totally opposed to the passage of
this Game and Feral Animal Control Amendment Bill 2009 |
| neil |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Haven't we learnt anything from
our past mistakes? This seems like another huge mistake. |
| Rod |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
My family and I live very close
to the Border Ranges NP.We often go walking there to enjoy the
scenery and especialy the amazing diversity of our native animals.
Our friends often take their overseas visitors for walks up
there too. Some of these people come from countries that have
experienced warfare and civil unrest. They always comment about
the sense of peace they feel here. Please do not jeopardise
the safety of the people who visit, or the animals who live
in our NP`s just to cater to a small number of recreational
shooters. |
| Pamela |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
National Parks are to protect not
to let shooters go kill everything in sight. |
| Joan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Christopher |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Elizabeth |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a member of several animal welfare
organizations I strongly object to the shooting of our native
animals and the additional threat this will be to threatened
species. Should this outrageous law be passed it will undoubtedly
increase the workload of volunteer native animal rehabilitators. |
| Christine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am just appalled that in this
enlightened day and age this is even being considered. |
| Peter |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Martin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Lurline& Lance |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is the most retrograde step
I have heard of for a long time. Have you people not heard of
conservation, global warming, species extinction? LEAVE OUR
NATIONAL PARKS ALONE!!!!!!!! |
| wayne |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This labor government have gone
bloody insane |
| David |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Marie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
i am alarmed and depressed with
the idea of shooting so many native species especially in our
national parks. This is at odds with the need to protect other
species who will also be at risk if hunting is allowed. When
are you going to listen to ordinary concerned citizens rather
than moneyed right wing groups??? |
| Peter |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Sarah |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This legislative "development"
is likely to be catastrophic in relation to the preservation
of Australian wildlife and the sanctity of national parks. |
| Val |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
John Howard brought in strict gun
laws after the massacre at Port Arthur, now we can expect another
on our native animals. But hey they dont pay taxes so why not
shoot them. I'm a member of a native animal rescue group and
spend a lot of my time and hard earned to rehabilitate animals
for release into the wild, so now someone can go shoot them,
GREAT! John Howard should have brought in laws about stupidity. |
| Sandra |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Morna |
Hunting is a primative blood sport
and should be illegal |
It is quite transparent that the
Labour Party supports the Shooters Party for purely political
purposes. To encourage shooting (in National parks etc!) and
therefore gun ownership is unethical. Violence brought to our
suburbs and environs courtesy of the ALP. Not a vote winner. |
| Jasmin |
URGENT! Oppose the Game Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a long-term Labor supporter
and conservation ecologist, I was ecstatic with the 2007 promise
that recreational hunting would not be permitted in NSW national
parks. Thus I am shocked to hear this decision may be overturned
this week to accomodate game hunters. This is not the purpose
of national parks, whose intentions are to provide a safe-haven
for our unique and fragile flora and fauna. It is important
to maintain these ecosystems as pristine environments as much
as physically and politically possible. |
| john |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Premier, I will support you next
election, hand out material all day, however National parks
are for the preservation of diversity of our wildlife, not hunting
or game reserves. Please let it stay the way it is. |
| Rhonda |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
To allow Hunting in our National
Parks is a huge concern,our National Parks are refvered around
the whole. To even consider to allow hunting in them is absurd.
What would be left for future generations. |
| Katherine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is utterly stupid. It MUST
NOT go ahead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Peter |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
National Parks are of Icon Value,
not to be played with, PLEASE |
| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Anne |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a keen bushwalker and member
of a local bushwalking group I have already experienced walkers
being effectively shut out of State Forests on the Far South
Coast by the possible presence of hunters in the forests. If
this were to be extended to the National Park estate this would
effectively shut up virtually all public forest land on the
Far South Coast and over a huge area of NSW for the sole use
of hunters. This is a massive abuse of power by a tiny lobby
group in the community who does not have the welfare of the
environment, our native animals or the community at heart. I
urge you to oppose the Game Amendment Bill. |
| david |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
my wife and I are utterly opposed
to hunting in national parks |
| Di |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As long term wildlife carers, we
are absolutely against shooting of our wildlife which is a vital
part of our environment. It takes carers approximately 12 months
to rescue and rehabilitate one orphaned joey, and you are giving
licence to unscrupulous people to shoot them! |
| Scott |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Kick backs and back scratches will
be the demise of all that is good in this world, leaving all
that is bad. |
| Lesley |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
To allow recreational shooters(
the term recreational is a bit rich) into the National Parks
is unacceptable. Without a doubt, if it is allowed, some shooters
will simply shoot anything in sight. We saw this happening a
few years ago during the duck season in Victoria, where even
Black Swans were killed as were other protected species. During
the hunting season in the USA, scores of people are wounded
or killed by shooters who fire at any movement in the bushes.
Clearly this is not something we want in NSW. I ask you to oppose
the proposal and resist the attempts by a one issue party like
the Shooters Party, to force their opinion on the majority.
Yours sincerely, Lesley Gersen |
| Elizabeth |
Vote against the Game Amendment
Bill |
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| Ellen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am astounded that in 2009, these
topics are even being discussed. I am not against hunting entirely,
but National Parks are NOT the place for such an activity. I
am a keen bushwalker, canyoner, and climber, and regularly spend
my weekends out in various NSW National Parks. There are not
many of these special places left, and to allow hunting would
place NP (and the people in them) in great danger. We should
be doing whatever we can to protect our NP and our unique native
ecology. Whatever happened to take only photographs, leave only
footprints...? |
| John |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Rhonda |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Glenn |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Grace |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is totally ludicrous, even
to contemplate such an idea. |
| Suzanne |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
All animals have a right to life |
| ROBYN |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Malle |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a licenced gun owner myself
I know how dangerous guns are. My serious concern is for the
health and safety of bushwalkers and other users. Also who is
going to police shooters who may kill wildlife indiscriminately.
Dont believe anyone who says gun owners are all responsible
people - they are not!!! |
| Malle |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a licenced gun owner myself
I know how dangerous guns are. My serious concern is for the
health and safety of bushwalkers and other users. Also who is
going to police shooters who may kill wildlife indiscriminately.
Dont believe anyone who says gun owners are all responsible
people - they are not!!! |
| MICHAEL |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am appalled that an amendment
like this would even be considered.I live in close proximity
to a national park and I could think of nothing worse then to
share our beautiful native forests with people armed with guns
that have nothing but the killing of our wildlife in mind.I
know several licensed shooters and there is no way that you
will be able to police bag limits or what species is shot,a
perfect example is the limit on how many flying foxes (a threatened
species )can be culled by the orchadists and we know how unsuccesfully
that is policed due to lack of resources.Is this a push to gain
votes by pandering to the wishes of a small minority.What about
the rights and priviledges of the majority?I appeal to you to
seriously reconsider this change to the act,if it is succesfull
you will lose more votes than gained.As for the creation of
game parks stocked with feral animals,what are you thinking?Don't
we learn from our mistakes.Wasn't the fox introduced to be hunted?Feral
animals destroy a huge amount of our native wildlife,now you
wan't to introduce more and allow shooters to decimate an already
stressed and threatened native animal population.If our native
wildlife can't be safe in our National Parks what hope have
they got. |
| Thomas |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
How can the government allow the
killing of our native species in the name of controlling feral
animals? This Bill will only benefit a few trigger-happy shooters
and will have an adverse effect on the natural environment and
our native animals. Other methods of controlling feral animals
should be implemented which have less environmental impact. |
| Wendy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Carol |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a birding tour guide I see every
day the value of National Parks as safe, sacred and peaceful
places where visitors and locals come to enjoy the bush and
learn about our flora and fauna. Birdwatching tourism is one
of the fastest growing industries today and will inevitably
be threatened by such a backward move as allowing hunting in
National Parks. |
| Helen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| sylvia |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is taking our society backwards.
It is disgusting |
| Lin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please think clearly about this
amendment. Shooting is a destructive sport. |
| Margaret |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Lyn |
Oppose the Game Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Dear Premier, I am
horrified that the labor party could even contemplate supporting
an agenda of the shooters party, a party, which to many labor
votors would consider promotes the views of right extremists.
How desperate is the labor party to be involved in this? As
you are probably aware, many labor supporters in the inner west
are now looking to the Greens to support their principles and
the support by labor of this extraordinary proposal would only
worsen the situation. I hope that the party realises that supporting
this Bill would be contrary to its policies., particularly those
in relation to the environment. As a labor supporter, a life
member of the RSPCA and a member of Wires, I respectfully ask
that you seriously consider the ramifications of supporting
this Bill and vote against it. |
| Vera |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Hunting is not a recreation. |
| Levente |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Remy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
The above text more than adequately
covers my objections to this proposed bill |
| Diane |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I find it almost impossible to
believe that such a bill could even be considered in our National
Parks |
| Edith |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
The use of firearms in what is
supposed to only have the sounds of the bush is abhorrent to
myself and all living animals. Animals have learnt their enemies
are their only natural predators in these areas. The introduction
of fire arms will destroy this and make them fearful of humans.
As a consequence our opportunity to see them will be reduced
which is a major reason for going there. |
| Hugh |
Submission opposing the Game Amendment
Bill to allow hunting in National Parks |
It was with horror that I was informed
of this Bill and it's provisions that will allow hunting in
National Parks. The Bill is flawed in concept and if passed,
execution, as it will endanger both the natural conservation
objectives of National Parks and other forms of recreation that
do not endanger those objectives and National Park values. |
| Vivien |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Arjan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| julia |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am shocked at the concept of
allowing recreational shooters into National Parks. A further
subversion and undermining of our Australian culture and identity
by a succession of Governments that sell our culture off to
the highest bidder. I am a wildlife carer and a shooter and
I find the concept abhorent and inconcievable. You have the
power to stop this insanity, please use it to protect our precious
and irreplacable wildlife and National Parks. |
| Catherine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a veterinary surgeon I can;t
believe such a bill is being proposed. Hunting in national Parks???
What century are we living in? |
| Diane |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Maria and Bill |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
We are aware of the support promised
by Fred Niall and the Shooters Party for more coal mines and
other NSW government initiatives in return for this highly unethical
and retrograde step of allowing hunting in National Parks and
killing of animals in private game reserves. All aspects of
these deals are bad and would make us work hard to see that
Labor is not re-elected in NSW (as having lost the plot entirely!)
if they go ahead. Please do not put us and many citizens who
care about wildlife (and about better climate change solutions
now!) in this position of seeing no choice but to put Labor
last. |
| William |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Dear Premier Rees As a Labour voter
I implore you not to proceed with this legislation. Regards
Bill Thompson |
| Bronwyn |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Tanya |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I do beleve we need to eradicate
feral animals, but I am strongly against game parks of any kind.
They are horrendous and serve no other purpose but to prmote
violence against animals in the most horrific way. Which ever
way you look at it.Shooting for a purpose not just for the fun
of trophies. |
| Rod |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Greg |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Please Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I think it is appalling that our
National Parks could be turned into shooting galleries. I have
seen the effects of irresponsible shooters in NZ. Please prevent
it happening here as well. |
| Jacob |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Major parts of this bill are beneficial
updates to current legislation, however some disconserting elements
are mixed in there. While the creation of game reserves may
increase immediate government revenue, the immense potential
for ecological damage and consequencial environmental protection
necessary would be hugely detrimental and expensive to the (currently
fictional) budget surplus. Schedule 1 [5] and [6] sets up national
parks to become a potentially dangerous place during certain
seasons, and prevents them from being perminantly a safe, serene
place to enjoy and observe nature. Game hunting by nature is
not supportive for the enjoyment and preservation of nature,
and is also usable only by a very select few, contradicting
the name "national park", and making it into a "licenced shooter's
park". Also, this provides the proverbial "thin end of the wedge"
when it comes to stringent restrictions on firearms usage, transport
and ownership. It also promotes the ownership and of firarms
and the act of hunting. The United States of America has fairly
loose gun laws when compared to Australia, and the number of
firearm related offences is far higher. The less effective weapons
killers are provided with, the less effective they are at killing.
Schedule 1 [20], enabling the leasing of land to be used as
a private game reserve is extremely dangerous, because it has
been shown time and time again that animals can never be completely
imprisioned within a given area, and given the amount of damage
that introduced species have done, it would be highly irresponsible
to allow potential pests to be kept soley for recreational hunting.
Rabbits were introduced for hunting, and now, despite many control
measures, they are out of control again, case in point. Schedule
2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 are all particulaly concerning. The wording
of Schedule 2.2 leaves the reader wondering about exactly how
animals will cease to be protected by the "Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals Act 1979" when in the proposed private game reserves.
Provided that controlling pests is an important part of preserving
the environment, it would seem illogical to exempt certain properties
from restrictions on controlling populations of known pests. |
| Fiona |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This bill presents a danger to
all park users of being shot. Note the deaths that occur in
NZ with deer hunting |
| Anne |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is an unsustainable and environmentally
inexcusable activity, which threatens both our natural environment,
not to mention inter-generational equity. Weapons are not appropriate
in national parks or civil society. Deliberate damage to wildlife,
and the risks associated with having weapons in National Parks
is a cost we should not be asked to consider. |
| rebecca |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
what a completely outrageous proposition,
i can not fathom how such an idea as hunting our precious native
wildlife could even warrant thought. As if our native animals
do not have enough difficulties facing them, loss of habitat,
climate change and now this. Surely someone will have some sense
and dismiss this bill as the rubbish it is! |
| Thomas |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
We run tourism cabins at Newnes
in Wollemi National Park. We treasure the nature and the wildlife
which surrounds us here. So do local and international visitors.
The thought of shooters coming down here and shooting the wildlife
is totally incomprehendable. |
| Judy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Gary |
Opposition to the Game Amendment
Bill - I strongly reject allowing hunting in our National Parks |
National Parks in NSW, and indeed
throughout Australia, have always been dedicated to the protection
of flora and fauna within the boudaries to the park or reserve.
If any culling of any species is required it should be the NPWS
who undertake this exercise, not recreational hunters. I strongly
oppose the Bill in any form. |
| Anne |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Thank-you for considering the public's
opinion on this matter. Our national estate should be conserved,
not attacked. Similarly National and State Parks are a public
asset, and should be a safe place for families to visit, rather
than a place taken over by groups without concern for the greater
good. Please consider this in your decision making. The natural
environment cannot be re-created. |
| Mike |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| JOHN |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do not Allow Our Lungs-National Parks to Contaminate With
a Gun Powder. |
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| Peter |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Myself, wife and kids are recreational
hikers and campers within National Parks. It would appear that
our enjoyment of same will now need to cease due to the very
real prospect of being killed or injured by uncontrolled recreational
shooters. I vehemently oppose the Rees government allowing the
indiscriminate killing of wild animals with the sanctuary (a
human sanctuary to myself and family!) of national parks. Not
only do I care for animals but I want to use national parks
in peace and safety and I fear that will no longer be possible.
If this bill is passed my vote will reflect my feelings at the
next election. |
| Pam |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jennifer |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Is there going to be no safe haven
for our wildlife? If killings in the National Parks begin than
Australia's heritage will be wiped out! |
| Louise |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Alan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Allan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jack |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Leon |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Hi, hunting in National Parks is
appalling, I will no longer feel safe camping, bushwalking and
sight-seeing knowing that there could be people with guns stalking
native wildlife. It is bad enough that many State Forests now
allow shooting and my family and I avoid them. Please save NSW's
National Parks. |
| Bronwen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| John & Jenny |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
We would like you to know that
we are opposed to this bill. Where we live in Tapitallee we
have a considerable problem with damage to flowers and trees
from feral deer (that where escapees from a local deer farm
10+ years ago) and we allow licensed shooters onto our property
who are paid by the National Parks. However the prospect of
having recreational shooting in National Parks appals us. We
also enjoy bushwalking in remote areas of the Morton National
Park and cannot conceive of safe shooting mixed with walking
access. |
| David |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Judy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
The primary purpose of national
parks is for conservation and to protect biodiversity. It is
also for people to escape the pressures of modern life and to
enjoy nature without the sound of gunshots. With drought impacting
on bird and wildlife habitat, the last thing needed is recreational
hunters who will be very difficult if not impossible to monitor
or control. |
| Vera |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Trish |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I voted for a Government that would
end a primitive and outdated reign in regard to environmental
management, and work to improve Australia's natural biodiversity.
Thus far all I am seeing is less expenditure on NRM issues and
archaic knee-jerk proposals like this being made! |
| Janine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am totally opposed, distressed
and horrified that the Government would stoop so low to consider
this abominable legislation. |
| David |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I do not want to dodge hunters'
bullets when I walk in NSW national parks. |
| Peter |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a rural geographer I am saddened
by the appearance of this bill which threatens the peaceful
enjoyment of the heritage of national parks created by people
of wisdom and foresight for the benefit of all residents of
and visitors to our State. |
| Danielle |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Hunting Native wildlife is absolutely
appalling and could be potentially devastating to most vulnerable
species. Hunting should be banned altogether and hunting our
native animals is totally unacceptable. |
| Lachlan |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Colin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This proposed bill represents an
outrageous sellout of sound conservation practice and of the
voting public. The blatant grab for influence by the Shooters
Party should in no way be entertained by the NSW Labour Government
and if caved into, will cost Labour dearly at the ballot box
in terms of conservation minded traditionally Labour voters
deserting Labour. I for one have never voted Liberal, but on
this one mate, I sure will. |
| Gary |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please recognise the obvious folly
in the introduction of this bill. For the gratification of twisted
individuals that delight in killing things as sport? this is
nothing short of sickening and ludicrous. Where is your compassion?
What can possibly be gained from passing this cruel bill. Realise
that we are not far removed from the wild kingdom in geological
time, let us protect these animals not persecute them. |
| Peter |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Labor governments, both state and
federal, are increasingly showing themselves to be little better,
environmentally, than the white shoe brigade that characterises
the political right wing in Australia. Your attacks on national
parks, via your push for the incursion of tourist facilities
within their borders, is now being taken to a new level. What
do you really stand for? |
| Sarah |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- No Hunting in National Parks!!!! |
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| Edwin |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This legislation disregards basic
principles of the National Parks systems . With it will be the
allowing of (hunting)dogs to run through disturbing if not killing
all forms of wildlife . Interference with habitats i.e. hollows
, logs and rock displacement. Native fauna are stressed enough
with human presence without this added involvement. Since so
much biota is forced to exist on private land the need for protection
should be the priority not the reverse as this bill will allow.
Not in my wildest dreams could I have imagined such a proposal
would ever be considered . |
| Vanessa |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Daryl |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please don't pass this bill, these
Animals have a right to safety within these parks not to have
their homes turned into a target range. |
| Natalie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Please prove me wrong in thinking
that Labour may support this horrendous Bill just to gain the
support of the Shooters Party in passing future contentious
legislation. I prefer to think that our politicians have some
degree of conscience and would never stoop to such low, immoral
tactics at the expense of our precious wildlife and national
parks. |
| Ursula |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
People can't ride their horses
through National Parks but hunters will drive their 4wheel drives
in, both will cause damage to the fragile land. Bushwalkers
are not allowed to bring their dogs into National Parks, but
hunters will go hunting with their hunting dogs. The more humans
interfere with nature the more and the quicker we upset the
natural balance. Please keep National Parks free from hunters,
hunting dogs, firearms, stray bullets |
| Max |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Robbie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Mr Premier, as a WIRES rescuer
and foster carer, I am appalled that you would even contemplate
allowing this to occur. Our National Parks, which are supposed
to be havens for our beleaguered native animals, will become
slaughterhouses. And people like me will be expected to pick
up the pieces ... literally. My disgust is bottomless. As an
ALP member, I am deeply ashamed that a state Labor government
has gotten into bed with the Game Council. I promise you, Mr
Premier, that my shame will be transformed into direct action
at the ballot box, if you support this Bill. |
| Pascale |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I stronly oppose the use of firarms
in our national park..it should be a place for peace for all
including the animals that inhabit these areas. |
| Lynda |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Dear Premier Rees, Please consider
all the animals that have been released by hard working wildlife
carers, in the hope that the animals they saved were safe in
the National Parks. So many of us have considered National Parks
to be safe havens for our unique wildlife species, and for the
solitude and peaceful environment that National Parks provide.
How will our future National Parks be viewed when shooters can
use these areas for shooting! Men with guns will soon destroy
our beautiful sanctuaries, both for the fauna and for those
who appreciate nature's beauty. It would only be a matter of
time before a human fatality were to occur if this legislation
goes through. PLEASE allow these areas to be free of people
with guns!!! Yours Sincerely Lynda Staker Macropod Husbandry
Specialist |
| Tony |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
In no way can I support the Game
and Feral Animal Control Amendment Bill, which if passed, would
surely make NSW a laughing stock in the rest of Australia and
overseas. |
| Robert |
Please Oppose the Game Amendment
Bill - Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
A lot of tourists come to spot
native animals in their natural habitat and enjoy bushwalking
through our famous National Parks. Hunting native animals in
National Parks won't be much appreciated by tourists and bushwalking
will become a dangerous activity, just wait for the first stray
bullet to kill a person. Also, birdwatching will become a thing
of the past, as it will become just as dangerous, if hunters
are allowed to shoot birds. With tourism already in decline,
the knowledge of hunters being on the roam won't help bring
the numbers up. Please oppose this Game Amendment Bill. |
| Linda |
I absolutely oppose the Game Amendment
Bill and Hunting in National Parks |
Animals surely deserve to live
their lives free from suffering and exploitation. The capacity
for suffering is the vital characteristic that gives a being
the right to equal consideration. All animals have the ability
to suffer in the same way and to the same degree that humans
do. They feel pain, pleasure, fear, frustration, loneliness,
and motherly love. Whenever we consider doing something that
would interfere with their needs, we are morally obligated to
take them into account. Animals have an inherent worth—a value
completely separate from their usefulness to humans. Every creature
with a will to live has a right to live free from pain and suffering.
Only prejudice allows us to deny others the rights that we expect
to have for ourselves. Whether it’s based on race, gender, sexual
orientation, or species, prejudice is morally unacceptable.
Animals have no voices to protest, but that doesn't mean their
suffering is less. It is just less visible. It is silent. We
find it hard to relate to them because they are alien to us.
All suffering is equal, in animal, in human. Lest we forget.
Please protect our native wildlife from exploitation and fear.
Do we want our tourists to see our national wildlife having
to fight for its life? Do we want our tourists hearing native
animals scream? Is that really the image we want tourists to
take away with them? Please oppose the vigorous campaign being
waged against our national wildlife for the sake of a few gun-toting
rednecks who still think we live in the dark ages. We should
be encouraging people to interact with the environment and native
animals in a natural and sustainable way, such as guided bush
walks, early bird watching tours that our local tourism industry
provides. Video and photos can be used as a medium to show pictures
of local native wildlife. The Blue Mountains prides itself on
eco tourism. The murder of native wildlife isn't in keeping
with that image. Animals are our neighbours, our friends, and
our fellow Earthlings. They are not ours to use for food, clothing,
entertainment, experimentation, or any other purpose. Animals
deserve our consideration whether or not they are cute, useful
to humans, or endangered and whether or not anyone else cares
about them at all. The long-term trend in this country, and
elsewhere, is to move away from the horrible old exploitative,
uncaring and cruel exploitation of animals. The move is towards
treating animals with dignity - not treating them cruelly. The
move in zoos, wildlife parks, fauna and marine parks and reserves
is towards protecting animals, turning those places into refuges,
and breeding spaces for endangered species, and away from crass,
commercial, for-profit exploitation. Australia should be promoting
eco-friendly tourism, not abuse of native wildlife. Only criminals
who have committed crimes should be shot. Native wildlife have
committed no crime. So why are they being denied their lives?
This is not a good image for Australia and will in the long
term cause a serious downturn in visitors who will look elsewhere
for attractions that do not involve abuse and exploitation of
native wildlife. Recently, Former High Court judge, the Hon
Michael Kirby AC CMG, launched Australia’s first animal law
textbook at Sydney Law School ‘Animal Law in Australasia’, edited
by Peter Sankoff and Steven White. Justice Kirby stated that
the book was an upsetting book, particularly as it describes
the legal treatment of farm animals. However he said "We should
all be upset, because it was when we got upset about slaves
that something happened about slaves. It was when we got upset
about Aboriginal rights that something happened about Aboriginal
rights. Being upset is the beginning of the journey to solutions."
We need to start thinking if someone other than us deserves
some protection. Animals are treated as commodities. They are
treated as pieces of meat. They are treated as products we are
going to use. They are not considered to be sentient beings,
but they are. We need to start thinking about our native wildlife.
We need to be upset. Anyone claiming to be a decent human being,
and claiming to care about animal welfare, must be upset by
what this Bill will do to our native wildlife. All humans should
care about animal protection because we have a moral and ethical
obligation to those who are innocent and vulnerable, as they
are our wards in this world we live in. Cruelty to animals and
mistreatment of animals in any way at all diminishes our own
role as human beings and reduces our own capacity to live ethically
and sustainably. Given the quantity of animal suffering, the
extent to which they are suffering and the stupid and glutinous
reasons why they are intentionally made to suffer so horribly,
helping animals is the moral imperative of our time. The 18th
century saw the beginnings of our democratic system. The 19th
century abolished slavery in the developed world. The 20th century
abolished child labour, criminalised child abuse, gave women
the vote and gave African Americans wider rights. The 21st century
will be the one for animal liberation. You have a voice and
you are influential. One day you will look back and say to your
grandchildren - I knew about what was happening to animals and
I did nothing. Or I knew about it and I acted. The choice is
yours to make. Please do not pass this Bill. Please speak up
for the voiceless. |
| Lesley |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| C. |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Annie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Nathan, This is would be a crazy
idea. Please leave the National Parks alone. It would be very
dangerous if people were shooting feral animals in national
parks as they could kill native animals or people by mistake.
Also if someone was going to shoot feral animals anywhere I
would want them to be professional shooters, not people who
shoot animals for fun. |
| Linda |
I totally oppose the Game Amendment
Bill and Hunting in National Parks |
In the days of slavery not so many
decades ago people in the US honestly believed that African
men do not feel pain as white men do, that African women do
not experience maternal love as white women do, and so it was
quite acceptable to brand men’s faces with a hot iron, and to
auction off slaves’ children and send them vast distances away
from their mothers. All evidence was to the contrary of course,
yet highly educated people defied their own eyes and ears and
common sense and their own ability to deduce by denying the
facts before them, simply because society accepted the exploitation
of these races and it takes a commitment to break away from
the norm, even when the norm is ugly and wrong. Today we have
abolished human slavery, at least in theory, at least we know
it is wrong. But we continue to enslave all the other animal
species, who if we are honest with ourselves show us clearly
that they experience maternal love as we do, that if you burn
them they scream as we do, that they desire freedom from shackles
as we do. Examining our treatment of animals, these odd-looking
others, is vital to our own personal development as moral agents.
If we feel it is asking too much of us to open our hearts and
minds to animals needs and their obvious inescapable desire
to be free of pain, too much to ask that they be treated as
if they feel, which they do, then perhaps it is too much for
us to ask others to understand us. It is time for all moral,
decent and compassionate people to express kindness to the animal
nations. The ultimate kindness being to leave them in peace
and refrain from exploiting them. Something we do only because
somehow without thinking, suspend our dearly held belief that
might does not make right. Moral and decent and compassionate
people cannot stand silent while animals are forced to flee
for their lives, to creep and run in a world they have an equal
right to share. Moral and decent and compassionate people cannot
be complicit in the slaughter of our native wildlife. Moral
and decent and compassionate people cannot stand idly by while
animals who have committed no crime are murdered. Moral and
decent and compassionate people cannot support frightening animals
and stealing their lives. I call upon all moral and decent and
compassionate people to stand up for the voiceless animals.
People need to open their hearts and minds to the possibility
that the way we treat animals is an issue that goes to the very
heart of who we are as individuals and as a society - a lack
of empathy for others who are not exactly like us. It is an
interesting exercise that challenges our most ingrained prejudices
just as we challenge others to confront theirs. Faced with disinterest,
disdain or even outright hostility to the idea of embracing
those who we are conditioned to dislike or not care about. We
see human capacity for compassion and callousness all around
us, not just in our treatment of animals, but in our treatment
of other humans. Animals are treated as inanimate objects these
days. Whole lives kept in cages as nothing more than living
toys or ornaments. AS objects to be hunted. How thoughtless
we can be when we do violent things to others who we happen
not to relate to or who in many cases we simply dismiss as too
unimportant to consider at all. The question is why don’t enough
good people care? It’s not as if reaching out to one group takes
away from reaching out to another. Please show you care. Please
help the animals escape the fate red-neck gun-toting louts think
they deserve because these people lack empathy for others that
are not like us and are in fact speciesist. It doesn’t matter
who needs help it only matters that they do need help. War is
a frightening thing to all living beings. Every day millions
of animals which have pledged allegiance to no flag and who
have done nothing to provoke aggression, are the victims of
the longest running undeclared war in human history. The war
on the animal nations. They are killed just because someone
is powerful enough to steal their land, run them out of their
homes, take their young from them, cut them up and eat them,
experiment on them, use their skins, treat them as amusements
for some human fleeting pleasure. They never can feel secure,
they must creep and run. People who try to justify mistreatment
of animals by saying by saying that they are stupid and they
are dirty are using arguments that have been used historically
against those that are marginalised and dismissed. Even if we
believe ourselves to be superior, we are not entitled to be
bullies. It’s true, that we don’t comprehend the other animals’
languages. It doesn’t mean they don’t have them. It is true
that most humans are ignorant of other animals’ cultures. It
doesn’t mean they don’t have them. Animal behaviours and needs
are quite often misunderstood or just downright dismissed. Mistreatment
isn’t right for them any more than it is right for us. Embrace
justice for all, no matter their race, or their creed, or their
colour, or their gender, or their species. Ghandi asserted that
the most significant moral characteristics of a nation are its
capacity for charity and that one can measure a nation’s greatness
not by its achievements, its scientific advances, or its contribution
to arts and literature, or by its power and influence in the
world, but by its treatment of animals. Why? Because animals
are so alien to us. They are so dissimilar in their appearance
that it is hardest for us to relate to them. That is our test.
After hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans superdome, which is
a giant football stadium, was used to temporarily house tens
of thousands of mostly poor people who were left homeless by
the floods. Conditions inside quickly deteriorated and emergency
food and water rations weren’t delivered. One man appeared and
said on television, “They are leaving us here to die like dogs.”
We hear that expression and the implication of it that somehow
it is an appropriate fate for a dog to be abandoned without
food and water but not an acceptable fate for humans. Ironically,
most animals aren’t treated like animals. Their miserable existences
as meat on the hoof, beasts of burden forced to carry heavy
loads, almost to the breaking point and sometimes to the breaking
point, the way they are warehoused together like boxes on a
shelf, their lives in cages and irons, denies them everything
natural about their lives. Treated like animals is the wrong
metaphor. These animals are not treated like animals, they are
treated like things, like commodities, machines, like objects.
They are treated like everything but as animals. Please claw
back some pride as humans and put some worth into the meaning
of the word - humane. Animals are not “what”. Their very name
animal comes from the Latin word anima which means life. There
are thousands of examples of animals clearly demonstrating high
degrees of abstract thinking, complex communication, emotions,
individuality, unique transmission of culture, and all the other
characteristics, talents and abilities, that some think are
exclusively human. The average dog it has been discovered painstakingly
masters 200 words of his family’s language without being taught.
A mouse hears the door opening and in sheer anticipation of
bad things to come, his heart starts to pound, his adrenalin
levels rise and his pulse races. All these things have been
measured, witnessed, studied, published. We are sometimes afraid
to be compared to the other animals, and that is a matter of
vanity. Frightened people speak of the danger of anthropomorphism,
attributing what they call human nature to animals. But it isn’t
human nature. It’s shared nature. All animals experience emotions.
To say they do not is anthropo denial. Denial that we have erected
these false barriers to keep these others out. No one has to
choose between animals and humans. We are obviously all important.
Similarly, the news that many elderly citizens in New Orleans
were left to drown in their nursing home beds is a tragedy in
itself without having to have their lives ranked against the
youth or the able bodied. All are important. Our compassion
is not some mean thing like a cake with only a few slices you
can take from it. Since we all inhabit the Earth, we are all
earthlings. There is no sexism, no racism, no speciesism in
the term earthling. It encompasses each and every one of us,
warm or cold blooded, mammal, vertebrate or invertebrate, bird,
reptile, amphibian, fish, and human alike. Humans, therefore,
being not the only species on the planet, share this world with
millions of other living creatures, as we all evolve here together.
However, it is the human earthling who tends to dominate the
earth, often times treating other fellow earthlings and living
beings as mere objects. This is what is meant by speciesism.
By analogy with racism and sexism, the term “speciesism” is
a prejudice or attitude of bias in favour of the interests of
members of one’s own species and against those of other species.
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing
to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the
nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that
one’s suffering can be counted equally with the like suffering
of any other being. Racists violate the principle of equality
by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their
own race when there is a clash between their interests and the
interests of those of another race. Sexists violate the principle
of equality by favouring the interests of their own sex. Similarly,
speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override
the greater interests of members of other species. In each case,
the pattern is identical. Though among the members of the human
family we recognise the moral imperative of respect (every human
is a somebody, not a something), morally disrespectful treatment
occurs when those that stand at the power end of a power relationship
treat the less powerful as though they were mere objects. The
rapist does this to the victim of rape, the child molester to
the child molested, the master to the slave. In each and all
such cases, humans who have power exploit those who lack it.
Might the same be true of how humans treat other animals, or
other earthlings? Undoubtedly there are differences, since humans
and animals are not the same in all respects. But the question
of sameness wears another face. Granted, these animals may not
have all the desires we humans have; granted, they do not comprehend
everything we humans comprehend; nevertheless we and they do
have some of the same desires and do comprehend some of the
same things. The desires for food and water, shelter and companionship,
freedom of movement and the avoidance of pain. These desires
are shared by non human animals and human beings. As for comprehension,
like humans, many non human animals understand the world in
which they live and move. Otherwise they could not survive.
So beneath the many differences, there is sameness. Like us,
these animals embody the mystery and wonder of consciousness.
Like us, they are not only in the world, they are aware of it.
Like us they are the psychological centres of a life that is
uniquely there own. In these fundamental respects, humans stand
“on all fours” so to speak, with hogs and cows, chickens and
turkeys, koalas and reptiles. What these animals are due from
us, how we morally out to treat them, are questions whose answer
begins with the recognition of our psychological kinship with
them. In his book “The Outermost House” author Henry Beston
wrote “We need another and a wider and perhaps more mystical
concept of animals.” “Remote from universal nature, and living
by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creatures
through the glass of his knowledge and sees therefore a feather
magnified, and the whole image in distortion. We patronise them
for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken
form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly
err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world
older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete,
gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained,
living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren;
they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with
ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners in the
splendour and travail of the earth.” It is time to stop imprisoning
them. To stop exploiting them. To stop abusing them. To stop
treating them as objects. Take a stand now. Please care enough
to act. Today most animals are invisible. They are non-beings
because people are too self important and too ignorant to see
them, except perhaps as accessories to their own greedy desires,
as things. All animals feel hungry and thirsty just as we do.
When they are delighted they skip with joy just as we do. They
value their family, they love their friends. They hurt like
we do. Animals may come in different packages, but inside, they
like us are just emotional beings. They are full of thoughts
and full of feelings. Animals are individuals like us. They
may not look like us, but they are like us in all the important
ways. And I wonder how many of us realise, as the British philosopher
Henry Baston once said, “That they are actually other nations.”
That’s how we can think of them. Other nations who have their
own cultures, their own languages, their own interests just
as people from other countries that we meet who may be remote
to us have theirs. Mahatma Ghandi said that Indians were invisible
to the British during British rule because colonialists thought
that they were so important themselves they were too ignorant
to see Indians as actual people. They were non-people. What
a hideous state of affairs. If they have previously been invisible
to you now start to see them because they are sharing the very
same world as you and they share the very same needs and wants,
they are just not as lucky as you. It requires so little of
us to respect animals enough to simply say no to using them
and abusing them. We have to be careful not to rob them of their
joy, of their lives, just for our own interests. It only takes
an understanding of who animals are. The realisation that they
are living, feeing individuals who like us want to live free
from misery and pain, and who should enjoy life and have love
and be understood. So once you know who animals are it must
be out of the question to let others hurt them. Once we make
that decision to respect the animal nations and leave them in
peace a world of kind choices opens up to us. Make the choice.
Vote against the Game and Feral Animal Control Amendment Bill
2009. |
| Graham |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is a most important issue
for me. Conservation demands the effective eradication of feral
animals, not maintaining populations of them for the the amusement
of hunters. Hunting native animals is always wrong. |
| Erik |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Whose idea was this??? The concept
of "recreational hunting" providing feral animals control is
a fallacy. I am surprised the government is even getting involved
in thinking about giving arms bearing citizens of limited mental
capacity even the opportunity to engage in target practice on
defenceless animals. As evolution inevitably progresses we can
only hope that one day the animals will find a way of shooting
back, accurately, and always purely for recreation, of course. |
| David |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
We need to get more intelligent
than going back to killing animals for sport Whats wrong with
these people that have to hunt just to have the pleasure of
seeing something killed where culling is necessary I agree it
is more humane to put animals that let them starve to death |
| Robyn |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Greg |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| David |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
In particular, I object to Schedule
1 [5] and [6] amend the definition of public land so that it
includes, . . . national park estate land, and Schedule 1 [8]
provides for a member of the Game Council to be nominated by
the Minister . . . rather than by the New South Wales Aboriginal
Land Council. No I am not an indigenous person, but one who
believes the Aboriginal Land Council is in a better position
to make such decisions |
| Sophia |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Meera |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| greg |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
If you need the shooters party
to survive in politics.Then you dont have the blessing of the
majority of voters in this state You will lose many more votes
than you will gain. You have already upset most of us anyway.You
need to change your whole approach to us. |
| Sandra |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Dear Premier I am appalled but
not surprised that you intend to allow this to go forward. You
have an appalling environmental record. I just wish you could
have seen the distress on a dieing neighbours face when his
favoured clydesdale was shot by ILLEGAL shooters in the adjacent
national park - his horse was enclosed on his property what
will happen to our precious wildlife which is already due to
be decimated by the decision to introduce commercial harvesting
into MSW. I have voted labour all my life I am 49 amd NEVER
will again I hate the liberals but you MR Rees are NOT an alternative. |
| Linda |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
It's time promises were kept and
our governement take care of our native lands and wildlife.
National parks should be a safe haven for people and animals
not a place where shooters can satisfy there lust for blood
. Stop this senseless amendment from going through and start
showing you are a Government worth having. At present you are
a disgrace. |
| orit |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Boris |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| President |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks. The Bill is against
all principles of conservation and feral animal controlland
will make our parks areas unsafe for visitors |
This bill if passed will make the
most fundamental change in National Parks since Royal National
park was established over 200 years ago. It is against all the
principles of conservation and feral animal; control and the
principle of encouraging safe public access to our magnificent
parks systems |
| Desiree |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Feral animal control needs to be
humanely targetted to the specific animal type and professional
practitioners held accountable for conduct and consequences.
Regulating, monitoring and ensuring compliance is likely to
make the whole excercise expensive and another burden on underresourced
governemnt envioronmental officers. The sharing of public space
by members of the public and shooters is fraught with with both
physical and legislative danger. |
| Elizabeth |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
My family implore you to not allow
this to happen. White man has done enough damage to the wildlife
of this country, feral animal control can be achieved in other
ways. |
| Francoise |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a bird watcher and a bushwalker
I am distressed to know that hunting of animals, including birds
in our National Parks may happen. As a Labor supporter, I will
vote Liberal at the next election if this goes ahead. |
| hilary |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Helen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I was apalled to learn about many
of these poposed changes to legislation in NSW. In particular,
any argument that recreational hunting can help reduce pest
animal populations is seriously flawed and involves a serious
conflict of interest. Recreational hunters in general do not
want to wipe out their quarry - rather they want to maintain
populations for their continued enjoyment. This would be like
putting the wolf in to guard the chicken coop. Furthermore,
many hunters use dogs - would these now be allowed into our
National Parks to chase and harass anything that moves? I am
also concerned by the likely restrictions of access by the public
and bona-fide field researchers into areas declared for hunting. |
| Nella |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jason |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| bronwyn |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Barbara |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
Should this bill be passed, this
is one less vote that your party will receive in the next election. |
| Judy |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
National Parks are declared to
protect and preserve flora and flora. We must conserve this
principle and provide an not opening for shooters to erode the
sanctity of our National Park areas. We are entrusted as stewards
of nature. |
| Amanda |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is disgusting!Senseless killing
of animals is NOT a past-time. |
| ariel |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This appears to be a retrograde
step and I cannot see how such things as occupational health
and safety can be adhered to. Feral animals are already in huge
numbers, many of them released by hunters for their own enjoyment.
I am not against removing feral animals but it needs to be done
in a controlled manner. I see the proposed new legislation as
creating more problems than it solves both to the shooters and
especially to native animals which I believe will be shot indiscriminately.
Passing this legislation will create chaos and lawlessness. |
| Trina |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Valerie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Margarita |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Bill |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Insist on Well Controlled Hunting in National Parks |
Feral animals are the greatest
danger to our natural habitat (not counting ourselves...) and
have caused huge damage, so their control/eradication is an
important and highly desirable outcome. But Australian history
is littered with examples of intended 'good' actions with unintended
consequneces (the rabbit, the fox,the cane toad, the camel,
lantana etc etc) - we must not invite another disaster. Really
clearly stated intentions with tight limits and effective controls
are imperative and based on an eco/conservationist perspective.
No hunting of natives. Never ever. No dogs. never ever. Bill
Tibben |
| Rod |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Ann |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
We have come a long way towards
peaceful living and family canping..let's not go backward |
| marie |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Tor |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Barry |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
This is lunacy to allow shooting
in national parks as no one will be silly enough to visit without
the fear of being shot by these gun carring killers. |
| Jane |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a family we wish to extend oyur
avid opposition to this bill. As a rural member of wires I often
am presented with the animals subjected to the outcomes of illegal
shooting. The Wollaro (Euro) species in particular. Please for
the sake of my family and those families who hold our native
forests as precious, do not vote this bill in. We want to be
able to see species such as the wollaro in the future. This
is solitary animal that is by no means is feral and in extreme
numbers. We want to be able to walk in our National Parks in
safety and do not want the breeding of feral animals for someone
to shoot. |
| Ray |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jillian |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Catherine |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
As a resident close to a National
Park, I would love to see Hunting banned from National Parks
Nationwide. Lets keep the National Parks as Natural as possible! |
| Kristen |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Julia |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
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| Jocelyn |
Oppose the Game Amendment Bill
- Do Not Allow Hunting in National Parks |
I am someone who uses our wonderful
national parks regularly. I use them to go walking to admire
our beautiful natural wonders, and this includes the flora and
fauna. |
