How I got my gun licence and joined the duck hunters — in protest
02 Apr 2013 |
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Crikey.
Writer and environmental activist Debbie Lustig wasn't allowed to join the Victorian duck hunt without a gun licence and licence to hunt waterfowl. So she got both, and headed off with the hunters -- in protest.
APR 02, 2013
In December last year 24 men and four women, including me, assembled for the compulsory test of the V...
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Out for a duck- The Australian Institute
12 Sep 2012 |
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Game on: relaxed rules to allow teenage shooters a free licence to kill
17 Aug 2012 |
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The Age
August 17, 2012
Opinion - Jo Wilkinson
The state is introducing new hunting laws by stealth, rewarding its supporters.
SOMETIMES you can just be very lucky with politics. Take the gun industry, for example. After a devastating blow from John Howard's gun controls following the Port Arthur massacre, the...
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Bush remedies keep failing basic test of policy
07 Mar 2012 |
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The Age
editorial March 7, 2012.
The Nationals' influence has a high environmental cost
NEW governments routinely intone that they will govern for all and act in the public interest. In Australia, this is, firstly, a pragmatic acknowledgement that voters tend to be fairly evenly divided between government and o...
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2011 Rescuer Shot at Lake Buloke
18 May 2011 |
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At Lake Buloke, near Donald, in 2011, a rescuer was shot in the face and hands. She was extremely lucky not to have been killed or blinded.
This segment is a tribute to her courage and acts as a warning to all rescuers, whether experienced or not, who face serious dangers from duck shooters while on the wetlands.
Insurance companies regard CADS...
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