Regional Victorians

Recreational duck shooting is banned in QLD, NSW and WA. It was never allowed in ACT. Independent polls of city and country people continue to show the majority of Victorians want it banned here too. So why hasn’t it been? Read on. The matter was debated in parliament on August 28 and reading through the Hansard notes felt like like witnessing a “Yes Minister” sitcom. Comments from Coalition MPs reflected close ties to the minority number of duck shooters, rather than the bro

Watch this short clip to learn why progressive states and territories know duck shooting is no walk in the park. The Victorian government is not living up to our commitment to animal welfare. #ANIMALWELFARE #cruelty #shooters #rspca #wildlife #victoriangovernment

Dear Friends, Sadly, Labor has failed our desperately low numbers of native waterbirds - many unique to our country - as well as our financially struggling Victorian rural communities (SGS Economics 2018 ), in allowing a further native waterbird shooting season in 2019. Our pitifully low numbers of birds include those that fled from QLD and NSW seeking refuge from crippling drought conditions. On Victorian waterways (those still with some water), these birds will be sitting

To Get It Done for Rural Victoria. Countering perhaps his only party member with vision, Michael O'Brien - new Liberal leader - recently dismissed James Newbury's call to ban duck shooting, saying the activity is "regulated". While it may be "regulated" in theory, duck shooting is not monitored at thousands of public waterways, often in close proximity to residents, posing unacceptable risk to the public and our struggling native waterbirds. Perhaps Mr O'Brien might care to j

The Andrew's government yesterday announced a welcome new plan to protect our animals and modernise Victoria, "recognising the sentience of animals" and "reflecting strong evidence that animals experience pleasure, comfort, fear and pain." The Minister says it is important "the welfare of all animals is protected". The plan's Vision and Purpose are admirable. The test of our Ministers' commitment however, will be in what happens now. For Victoria to have a "good reputation fo

Our children should not have to grow up with gunfire, violence and cruelty. PLEASE, CLICK ON THIS POST to ADD YOUR VOICE. We sincerely apologise to those who may find this disturbingly graphic. Sadly, this is not the worst of what our children find, whilst innocently walking around the otherwise beautiful public waterways which rural Victoria is blessed with. In a modern caring society, these waterways should be utilised in a more ethical, sustainable, safe and humane way. Pl

Click the post to see both pictures. Which is more popular? Which is safer, more ethical, humane and sustainable? If you answered the picture on the left, you passed the intelligence test and you are one of 99.96% of Victorians. Less than half of a percent of the population shoot waterbirds, an activity which has been proven to be inhumane and unable to be policed or controlled at the multitudes of waterways around our state. Many of these waterways are not only home to a gro

Whatever your political persuasion, if you love our charismatic feathered friends, the week-end's Northcote by-election result was positive. This long term Labor seat have voiced their values. High on the list; animal welfare and protection of nature assets, with The Greens seen as the solution. Labor ought take heed. Despite public commitments to animal welfare as well as rural jobs and growth, the Victorian Labor government have still not followed other states leads in ban

Watch this short video and have your say. With 98 percent of Victorians metro and rural telling our state government that animal welfare is important, it's pleasing to see the Minister for Agriculture recently announcing new animal welfare measures. We need her to be true to her word for the sake of our precious native waterbirds, hundreds of thousands of whom are brutally killed and maimed at waterways around Victoria each Autumn. Other states have long banned the practise f

Victorians are calling on the Andrews government to clean up the Act. In a second media release in less than a month, the Andrews government is trying hard to portray a care for animal welfare as well as rural economies, issues important to all of us. Recently they "set tails wagging" with circa $300,000 funding for dogs and cats. Now the Victorian government is promoting a care for wildlife, stating wildlife trafficking is "cruel and inhumane" and has "the potential to destr

Thanks to the NSW forward thinking government, ARMIES of wealthy Chinese are heading to regional NSW - swapping their smog for our grog — after the state government launched a major new advertising blitz to get more cashed-up Asian holiday-makers into the bush. (Daily telegraph May 2017) A whopping 1.2 million Chinese flocked to Australia last year with the Chinese tourism market worth around $13 billion to Australia by 2020. But many of those holiday-makers have not thought

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We believe many people will be asking themselves if our Ministers - who took an oath to serve ALL Victorians - are negligent, at the detriment of our desperately struggling ecosystems, rural economies and public health and safety. We have written to the Ministers to ask them why they have not yet banned duck shooting like other states, and have instead allowed another three month one sided massacre of our Native Waterbirds despite the following facts; Less than 0.004% Victori