Should be sent to Afghanistan.
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 14:55, Ross Macfarlane (TPG) <>
wrote:
> There has actually been a fair bit of publicity about it, e.g. on the ABC,
> Weekly Times and local papers, and various opinion pieces as well it:
>
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-07/wedge-tailed-eagles-suspected-poisoned
> -in-east-gippsland/9845124
> <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-07/wedge-tailed-eagles-suspected-poisoned-in-east-gippsland/9845124>
>
> https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/victoria/news-story/40c7b8d80f32ebc79
> deaef0b6db1a0f0?nk=f33c876b60bcf8a5b645918eda0f4c3d-1537852780
> <https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/victoria/news-story/40c7b8d80f32ebc79deaef0b6db1a0f0?nk=f33c876b60bcf8a5b645918eda0f4c3d-1537852780>
>
> https://theconversation.com/mass-slaughter-of-wedge-tailed-eagles-could-have
> -australia-wide-consequences-98011
> <https://theconversation.com/mass-slaughter-of-wedge-tailed-eagles-could-have-australia-wide-consequences-98011>
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/07/more-than-100-wedge-tail
> ed-eagles-found-dead-on-victorian-farm
> <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/07/more-than-100-wedge-tailed-eagles-found-dead-on-victorian-farm>
> etc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus <> On Behalf Of
> michael
> hunter
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 September 2018 1:39 PM
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] wedgetail jail and fine
>
> The Sale magistrate is to be very highly commended for jailing Murray James
> Silvester for slaughtering Wedge-tailed Eagles. It is unlikely that
> Silvester will kill native birds again.
>
> As a criminal could he now be deported?
>
> How much publicity did the magistrates decision attract ? Apart from
> Birding-aus I neither saw nor heard anything about it in the National media
> or elsewhere. From the Conservation view the jailing decision ought to be
> broadcast far and wide. Much more so than the prolonged outcry over
> culling
> six sharks in the Whitsundays. Wedgies are a much more visible and iconic
> native than Tiger Sharks.
>
> Like genital mutilation and other unsavoury practices a small number of
> immigrants bring to Australia, shooting or otherwise killing our native
> fauna warrants zero tolerance, in Public Opinion and the Courts. Not that
> Australian born fauna killers are guiltless. Publicising the penalties
> would
> help a lot to minimise the killing.
>
> Very Sincerely
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
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