Following all this, some might to join or support the
Invasive Species Council:
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~invasive/home.htm
One of the committee members is Tim Low ('Feral Future'
etc.) who recently sent the Enviroweeds mailing list an
email on "Australia's Quarantine Farce".
Tim wrote we "...have a permitted (white) list of species
that may be imported without weed risk assessment [WRA].
This list is not publicly available ...[but a knowledgeable
person]...says the permitted list contains more than 3,000
genera - a number so enormous it makes a mockery of WRA.
Included are most genera of garden plants, crop plants and
large grass genera, many of which include weedy species, for
example Paspalum, Brassica and Portulaca."
Michael Norris
Birding-Aus is on the Web at
www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index.html
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