Looks like we might get a few more Aussie hunters over here next year
https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/30/victorian-inquiry-to-recommend-state-ban-on-duck-hunting-amid-union-backlash
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Looks like we might get a few more Aussie hunters over here next year
https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/30/victorian-inquiry-to-recommend-state-ban-on-duck-hunting-amid-union-backlash
Not if you are Aboriginal.
Say YES!Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
And apparently some of the top end union reps are keen duckshooters. And they have told government inspector types to keep their reps the f.... off all work sites until the duckshooting rules are reversed. According to a interview I heard on the radio last week.
Laurie Levy and a bunch of his bellend anti-duck hunting groupies have been trying this annually for the past 25 years or more in Victoria.
This latest media beat-up comes as no real surprise under the current Labor government, but given about 24,000 people hold hunting licences in Victoria, I can imagine it will turn pretty messy.
Still, we may get a few jump-the-ditch to go duck hunting.
They must be quackers to be considering banning duck hunting.
Am I the only one that thinks this is a logical first step toward banning shot guns altogether?
Absolutely. Happens all the time - remove legitimate use then ask why you need it because you can't legally use it for anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brad S
While i agree that the answer is likely correct, unfortunately I cannot 'like' it.Quote:
Originally Posted by canross
Clay bird shooting, I need it/them for clay bird shooting!Quote:
Originally Posted by canross
(Even if I can’t hit them and the ones I do hit taste like shit!)
What's the best state in Australia to live in for shooting, including pistol?
New ZealandQuote:
Originally Posted by jackson21
Fuck me dead. Stop the world, I want to get off.
There are plenty of other legitimate uses for Shotguns.
Rabbits, foxes, pigs
Victoria is the most authoritarian state in Oz
Gun ownership, ease of hunting access, social acceptance - all slowly being eroded and has been for the last 30 years that I can remember. Major reason I defected from Oz. Grass ain't always greener boys and girls... I can happily put up without the big mining dollars and paying through the nose for fuel, NZ is bloody heaven as far as guns and hunting is concerned.
Do they like duck shit over there? Or are there enough predators to keep the population in check?
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The commitee that wrote the report recommending the ban was made up of 2 labour members 1 animal justice party 1 greens 1 liberal and 1 shooters and fishers so the outcome was never in doubt
When I read that I wondered if we'd learned a lesson from the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon.
In the early eighteen hundreds in America, the Passenger Pigeon was probably the most numerous bird on Earth - numbers were between 3 to 5 Billion.
In 1857 a Bill was brought to the Ohio State Legislature seeking protection for the bird - it failed.
By the mid 1890's they'd all but disappeared, the last one (Martha) dying in captivity in 1914.
Billions to zero in fifty years.
Commercial exploitation of pigeon meat and loss of habitat was responsible, plus the hundreds of thousands of hunters waiting all along the migratory passage ways.
Not saying that's what's happening to the duck - I actually don't know what's happening to the duck - and I wouldn't mind betting the duck doesn't know either.
WA got the shitest strictest gun laws thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Three O'Three
Some of the aussie states (going from a distant memory here so could be mistaken), had some very bad years where the duck population crashed from weather and disease. Hunting was banned so that wasn't it. Nature wiped out way more than shootersQuote:
Originally Posted by SF90