In this debate it is worth remembering that there are two upper house and
now also - for deity's sake - a lower house member of the NSW Government
from the Shooters and Fishers Party. So politicians' fears of losing their
seats to gun enthusiasts are not simply paranoia.
Martin Butterfield
http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/
On 20 March 2017 at 14:38, Peter Shute <> wrote:
> In recent years we came very close to having someone from the Country
> Alliance Party elected to the upper house in Victoria -a gun shop owner. I
> think it is about votes.
>
> Peter Shute
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Birding-Aus On Behalf
> > Of Chris Lloyd
> > Sent: Monday, 20 March 2017 10:06 AM
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> > Subject: [Birding-Aus] Victoria's duck shooting- why?
> >
> > There would be few people subscribing to this service who would have much
> > truck with duck shooting or any other shooting of native animals for that
> > matter. What interests me is why an otherwise relatively progressive
> > government backs a such a pursuit in the first place. The cohort involved
> > would seem, at face value, to be unlikely to vote for a Labor government.
> > While the regionalism of Victoria has similarities with Queensland in
> that
> > there is a working class vote in larger centres like Ballarat and
> Bendigo this
> > would seem somewhat outweighed by the drift of votes from the ALP left to
> > the Greens in both the aforementioned and the Melbourne metropolitan
> > area. So if the actual electoral gain/pain is arguably ceteris paribus
> the next
> > 'usual suspect' is the power of a lobby group. Now, once again, the
> > individualists and 'preppers' of the huntin', fishin' and shootin' crew
> are not
> > usually natural allies of the party of, allegedly or at least professed,
> > collectivist socialist progressives. So who is pulling the strings on
> this one and
> > how much leverage do they have with Danny Boy and the fun team in Spring
> > Street?
> >
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