Playing God with threatened species

To:	Denise Goodfellow <>
Subject:	Playing God with threatened species
From:	Dave Torr <>
Date:	Tue, 9 Sep 2014 07:54:55 +1000

An analysis of what voters claimed influenced them in the last Fed election

http://www.theguardian.com/world/victorian-election-the-countdown/2014/aug/27/law-and-order-issues-key-for-victorias-swing-voters

I guess if you bundled environment, global warming and carbon tax together
it would make it into 5th place - but of course this dos not say if the
carbon tax issue was for or against!

Anyway - time to go birding on King Island for a few days with probably no
internet access

On 9 September 2014 07:50, Dave Torr <> wrote:

> Depressing!
>
> On 9 September 2014 07:45, Denise Goodfellow <>
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>> According to my research on US birders, the keenest are often least
>> likely to be particularly conservation-minded.
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>> Denise Lawungkurr  Goodfellow
>> PO Box 71
>> Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
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>> PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
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>> Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia
>> Founding Member: Australian Federation of Graduate Women Northern
>> Territory
>> 043 8650 835
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>> On 9 Sep 2014, at 6:15 am, Dave Torr <> wrote:
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>> When questioned most people say they are willing to support "good causes".
>> They even say they will vote for politicians who will support such things.
>> But in practice relatively few do - if the figures quoted in the article
>> were actually representative of reality then BirdLife Australia - surely
>> one of the major "bird conservation" bodies in the country - would have a
>> much larger income and supporter base than it actually has. And perhaps
>> the
>> makeup of our parliaments would be a little different.
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>> On 9 September 2014 04:14, Julian Bielewicz <>
>> wrote:
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>> Greetings All
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>> I suspect that Dave is sadly on the right track; to give one has to care
>> first.
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>> Cheers
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>> Julian
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