Let's be clear about this and stop pussyfooting around, please: anyone who
shoots a swan or an avocet - an avocet, for God's sake! - in or out of duck
shooting season doesn't need more stringent ID testing; they need to be in the
clink. Now, that might sound like an over-reaction - OK, it is an overreaction-
but if half of what is supposed to have happened at Boort is true, the
apologist rhetoric about birders and hunters working together for conservation
doesn't sit terribly well with me. Stop kidding yourselves folks; we're not
talking about a group that cares one whit about wildlife, we're talking about a
bunch of rednecks, plain and simple. I acknowledge that not all hunters are so
indiscriminate, but the fact is if this had happened under the Bracks or even
the Brumby governments a scandal such as this (and it is a scandal) would have
probably been the tipping point that would have seen duck hunting finally
banned in Victoria. As it is, the fact that it's happened under
a conservative regime at a time when the print media is either unwilling or
unable to commit the required investigative resources to tell the full story
will probably save it for a decade longer. More's the pity.
Andrew
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