Precisely, and the Greens use of 'amateur' was intentionally derogatory, misleading and well off the mark.

I would go so far as to say that the skill levels of many amateur hunters is superior to that of most professionals, bearing in mind that NP employees are usually regarded as being professional.

Hunting can completely eradicate species of feral animals, that has been well proven.

Is Mise, nothing to say on the SMH article? Here is the gist of it for you;
"Amateur hunting in NSW forests will be suspended until at least October following the damning findings of a review into the Game Council of NSW.
As a result of the review, by retired public servant Steve Dunn, the Game Council of NSW will be abolished and responsibility for licensing of amateur hunters transferred to the Department of Primary Industries, the state government announced on Thursday."
damning findings, abolished the Liberal State government.
Goodbye Boyle.
We are most fortunate in NSW to have outstanding Greens members in the LC, David Shoebridge, John Kaye, Jan Barham, Jeremy Buckingham who have now been joined by a very dear friend of mine Mehreen Faruqi. Along with Jamie Parker, the member for Balmain, we have a competent and hard working team. With the disorganised rabble which is the NSW Labor Party these Greens have become the effective opposition to the people bashing O'Farrell government. A good example is the work done in exposing the likes of the Game Council and its Mr Boyle, good to see O'Farrell act, would he have done so without the hard work of The Greens, I doubt it

Paul,

The SMH article has absolutely nothing to do with the integrity of the three Greens who slandered Brian Boyle.

Boyle took the unusual step of seeking a Citizen's Right of Reply, that document exposes the three Greens concerned as liars who hid under Parliamentary Privilege.

Perhaps another quote?

"Mr Shoebridge stated that:

1. ‘We should be very clear about this. Mr Boyle engages repeatedly in the political dialogue that goes on in this State about the expansion of hunting. He regularly comments, for example, on the political debate about having 12-year-old kids unsupervised out in State forests stabbing pigs to death. He regularly commentates, in fact has attended political meetings –
… – that my party has organised in western Sydney. He attended and addressed the meeting. He engages in political debate. He attends the meetings in order to engage in political debate. And he engages regularly in political debate across the State. He is a
political figure, and he is going to be basically a tsar, in charge of some $5 million budget, standing in the shoes – ’

Mr Shoebridge is referring to a meeting at Padstow Senior Citizens Centre in Bankstown on 6 July 2011. I did not attend the meeting – it was attended by Mr John Mumford, Chairman of the Game
Council and Messers Douglas Shupe and Stephen Larsson, both of whomare appointed Councillors on the Game Council of NSW.

My diary notes and calendar will confirm I was in Orange and was
involved in meetings that day. [unquote]

Either Shoebridge is lying or was seriously misinformed and didn't bother to check the facts before attacking under Privilege.

Not attributes that one would want in a Member of Parliament, in the Senate, the Legislative Council or anywhere else.

Is Mise, can you not countenance the possibility that Mr Boyle my be misleading with his "diary notes and calendar". Personally knowing David Shoebridge, I have no reason to believe him to be anything less than honorable and truthful in this or any other matter.
I do believe the independent inquiry by Steve Dunn into the Game Council of NSW and his adverse finding are relevant to Mr Boyle and his claims of not being "political" the inquire found otherwise.
Mr Dunn’s report notes that the Game Council of which Mr Boyle is head, was established in 2002 because of the ‘‘influence and power’’ of the Shooter and Fishers Party. He says this power has resulted in the creation of an organisation lacking in accountability.
Fortunate the O'Farrell government has seen fit to lance Boyle from the public purse

Did Boyle get the sack?

Reference?

Is Mise, you are doing a great job of trying to defend the indefensible. The Dunn review found the Game Council has its fingers deep in the political pie, with the slices getting bigger thanks to the influence and power of the Shooters and Fishers Party in the NSW Legislative Council. Is it possible Mr Boyle as the CEO of the Game Council may by implication been seen as also having fingers deep in the political pie,
I said Boyle was lanced, his organisation will no longer be spending public money, interpret that as you will, could it mean sacked.

A one time candidate of the Shooters and Fishers Party says he's always had concerns about the way the Game Council has been run.
Jim Pirie is from Mudgee in New South Wales and has over 60 years of hunting experience under his belt, he was also a one-time candidate of the Shooters and Fishers Party.
These days he's the owner of a gun shop in town and he's also the Treasurer of the Cudgegong Valley Hunters Club.
He spoke with the ABC's Angela Owens frankly about his concerns over opening National Parks up to hunters and the growing power base of the Game Council.
"Unfortunately the architects of all this are very egotistical, arrogant men and they won't take advice from anybody," he said.
"It's either their way or the highway."
"(Someone) stood up at a hunting organisation meeting one day and said there was no nepotism, no cronyism in the Game Council, well that was a joke.
"They appointed the people that they wanted and this at the end of the day was to the determent of the organisation."