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Duck Hunting in Victoria

To: "'Paul Dodd'" <>, <>
Subject: Duck Hunting in Victoria
From: "Paul Dodd" <>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:15:31 +1100
And for those that want the SSAA position on the matter:

http://www.ssaa.org.au/fact-sheet/2009-06-23_duck-hunting-sustainable-harvest-LR.pdf

Paul Dodd
Docklands, Victoria


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Here is the Media Release from the Coalition Against Duck Shooting regarding 
the 2010 Victorian Duck Hunting Season. Contact CADS at www.duck.org.au for 
further information.

Paul Dodd
Docklands, Victoria
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COALITION AGAINST DUCK SHOOTING
Media Release
Wednesday 30 December 2009
 
No reprieve for Native Waterbirds
Premier John Brumby – just another climate change sceptic
 
The Coalition Against Duck Shooting today slammed the Victorian Brumby 
Government for selling out Australia’s native waterbirds by calling a 
recreational duck shooting season for political reasons.
The Coalition Against Duck Shooting’s Campaign Director, Laurie Levy, today 
said: "The Brumby Government’s decision to allow a duck shooting season in 2010 
is totally irresponsible and a betrayal of the 87% of Victorians who want the 
recreational shooting of native waterbirds banned.

"At a time when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been in Copenhagen seeking an 
agreement on serious climate change issues, Premier Brumby seems oblivious to 
the potential crisis and has irresponsibly called another duck shooting season 
when native waterbirds are under extreme stress."
"With wetlands drying and waterbird numbers down by 82% since 1983, Premier 
Brumby is acting like a climate change sceptic who lacks the vision to 
understand the serious plight native waterbirds face," said Levy.

"It is difficult to understand how a modern Victorian Labor Government in the 
21st century can still have the same destructive policies towards Australia’s 
native waterbirds as the Bolte Liberal Government of the 1950s and 60s. Times 
have changed, with the recreational shooting of native waterbirds banned by 
three State Labor Premiers in WA, NSW and Queensland," Levy said.

"As the Brumby Government has again made a political decision to look after 
their duck shooting mates, the Coalition Against Duck Shooting fully supports 
Ted Baillieu’s call for an independent Crime Commission to be established in 
Victoria.

"Calling another season simply for political reasons to accommodate a small 
number of duck shooters is corruption and must be investigated by a Crime 
Commission. It defies all the scientific evidence that indicates waterbird 
numbers have seriously declined, and the fact that most Victorians want native 
waterbirds protected (87% according to a recent Morgan Research Poll).

"Once again the Coalition Against Duck Shooting’s rescue team will return to 
the wetlands to protect Australia’s native waterbirds from recreational 
shooters," Levy concluded.




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