In recent years we came very close to having someone from the Country Alliance
Party elected to the upper house in Victoria -a gun shop owner. I think it is
about votes.
Peter Shute
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Victoria's duck shooting- why?
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> There would be few people subscribing to this service who would have much
> truck with duck shooting or any other shooting of native animals for that
> matter. What interests me is why an otherwise relatively progressive
> government backs a such a pursuit in the first place. The cohort involved
> would seem, at face value, to be unlikely to vote for a Labor government.
> While the regionalism of Victoria has similarities with Queensland in that
> there is a working class vote in larger centres like Ballarat and Bendigo this
> would seem somewhat outweighed by the drift of votes from the ALP left to
> the Greens in both the aforementioned and the Melbourne metropolitan
> area. So if the actual electoral gain/pain is arguably ceteris paribus the
> next
> 'usual suspect' is the power of a lobby group. Now, once again, the
> individualists and 'preppers' of the huntin', fishin' and shootin' crew are
> not
> usually natural allies of the party of, allegedly or at least professed,
> collectivist socialist progressives. So who is pulling the strings on this
> one and
> how much leverage do they have with Danny Boy and the fun team in Spring
> Street?
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