Thanks Martin.
I’m checking with my friends re the other criterion you mentioned.
Denise
On 10 Nov 2016, at 12:30 pm, Martin Butterfield <> wrote:
> At the risk of getting too political for this list, a comment from Crikey
> this morning is interesting.
>
>> The only possible upside for Australia is that a relatively large pool of
>> educated, skilled progressive workers from the United States might now be
>> looking for a wealthy, Anglophone democracy to move to. For an agile,
>> innovative economy like Australia, it’s a no-brainer that we should be
>> trying to encourage them to move here, starting now.
>
>
> Martin Butterfield
> http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/
>
> On 10 November 2016 at 11:08, Dave Torr <> wrote:
>
>> Guess there could be a few. But to quote from Denise's signature "With
>> every introduction of a plant or animal that goes feral this continent
>> becomes a little less unique, a little less Australian"! Hopefully they
>> won't go feral!
>>
>> On 10 November 2016 at 11:04, Bill Stent <> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, if they're going to show up, just don't do it by boat.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Denise Goodfellow <
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> An American birder has asked what steps she should take to migrate to
>>>> Australia. Do any Birding Aussers know?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
>>>> PO Box 71
>>>> Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
>>>> 043 8650 835
>>>>
>>>> PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
>>>>
>>>> Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia
>>>> Nominated by Earthfoot for Condé Nast’s International Ecotourism
>> Award,
>>>> 2004.
>>>> Liaison Officer, NT Field Naturalists’ Club
>>>>
>>>> With every introduction of a plant or animal that goes feral this
>>>> continent becomes a little less unique, a little less Australian.
>>>>
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>>>> On 10 Nov 2016, at 8:31 am, Chris Lloyd <> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My suspicion is that the Glen's stream of conscious monologue,
>> whatever
>>>> its
>>>>> intrinsic merits and pedantic linguistic failings, is now a
>> relatively
>>>> minor
>>>>> concern. The worldwide rise of populist proto-Fascism, and the
>>>> concomitant
>>>>> decline of the organised left that usually checks this, will throw
>> more
>>>>> immediate and threatening challenges to birds than specific taxonomy.
>>> It
>>>> is
>>>>> worth wandering the corridors of Breitbart et al to get a flavour for
>>> the
>>>>> emerging paradigm's view of the natural world. Suddenly Senator
>>> Roberts,
>>>>> from Pauline Trump's Brown Shirts, looks mainstream. We may need to
>>> start
>>>>> worrying at the genus or ordinal level under their policies. Ciao
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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