Stop The Sale of Zoo Animals to Shooters
In August 2009 Lee exposed a scandalous deal where a Shooters Party member was purchasing endangered Blackbuck Antelope from Dubbo's Western Plains Zoo to breed on his game reserve. The purchaser, Bob McComb is also the head of the Adventure and Safari Council and plans to turn his game reserve into a commercial safari hunting business, where people would pay to shoot the Blackbuck antelope. Both the Zoo and the Environment Minister Carmel Tebbutt defended the deal.
Send an email to voice your opposition:
Western Plains Zoo - wpz@zoo.nsw.gov.au
Environment Minister Carmel Tebbutt: dp.office@tebbutt.minister.nsw.gov.au
Ban hunting in NSW National Parks and State Forests
In June 2009 the Game and Feral Animal Control Amendment Bill was introduced into the NSW Upper House by Shooters Party MP Robert Brown, that would pave the way for hunting in national parks, private game reserves, the hunting of native species and the growth of recreational shooting on public and private lands (Sydney Morning Herald, page 6, 12 June 2009). Lee called on the Environment Minister Carmel Tebbutt to reject outright a new bill from the Shooters Party. The Government has withdrawn its support for the bill but it is still before parliament.
The Greens have been campaigning against so called conservation hunting since the Shooters were first successful in amending the Game and Feral Animal Control Bill in 2006 to open up state forests to hunting of feral animals by recreational shooters.
Re-introduction of Duck Season in NSW?
In May 2009 Lee questioned Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald in Parliament over the NSW Game Council's apparent resumption of the native duck shooting season in NSW. The Game Council has advertised its intention to run a Game Bird Education Program for recreational hunters who want to begin shooting native ducks.
The Shooters Party ties with NSW Labor
In NSW the gains of the Shooters Party have been won with strong support from NSW Labor. In return, the Shooters Party vote with the government on unpopular legislation.
Shooters MPs have voted to pass crucial government legislation that the Greens and other cross benchers did not support, e.g.:
- Law and order bills - Crimes Act, various amendments
- Workers Compensation Legislation
- Planning laws - Environmental Planning and Assessment Act amendments (Part 3A) and Environmental Planning Legislation Amendment bills
- Gene Technology (GM Crop moratorium) Bill 2003
- Threatened Species Legislation
- Keeping the Greens off the Political Funding Inquiry
See the full background on Shooters Party ties with Labor.
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