This post reminds me of a famous local meeting of the Wild Dog Committee, attended by a lot of angry farmers because large numbers of sheep were getting killed by dogs coming out of the national park.

Some greenie from the city came and said they have a wonderful plan to neuter the dogs.

One old farmer said "Miss, you don't seem to understand. Those dogs aren't f.ucking our sheep, they're *eating* them."

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And speaking of working for the betterment of native animals, one local was talking to a guy from L.A.O.K.O - "Look After Our Kosciusko Orphans" - a picture of wombat baby is their brand.

"So, what do you do with the wombats you save?" asked a local.

"Oh, we hug them, and love them, and cuddle them, and kiss them" said starry-eyed greenie.

"Oh yeah? And what about when they're grown up?"

"Then we release them into 'the wild'" said greenie, getting all moist.

"Into the wild eh?" said the local yokel. "Like, where in the wild?"

"Out at Dangelong." said the greenie.

"Out at Dangelong? Are you kidding? They shoot 'em out at Dangelong!" said the yokel.

"Shoot 'em? "But, but ..." sputtered the greenie "They're protected!"

"Well they might be protected, but they're not bullet-proof."

Thanks for the above post Rambo! How long did it take you to think up that load of fictional garbage, but it makes for a funny read. I particularly got a laugh from the joke about the dog, the sheep and the farmer, heard that one about 20 years ago, but the dog was a fox when I heard it. You can always spot a phony story when the teller can recount it all word for word JKJ, did you take it all down in shorthand, must have took notes!

On the subject, in New South Wales how much does it cost the tax payer to have Rambo shoot a rabbit? The answer...$7152.00, no I didn't put the decimal point in the wrong place, its a fact. The New South Wales taxpayers have just forked out $1,460,000 to have Rambo and his mates, aka "recreational shooters" run riot in the States national parks and shoot 198 feral animals, 70% of which were rabbits! To be fair they did shoot on old dear, and a fox. Naturally, these people who like to dress themselves up as Gomer Pyle before going on "the big hunt" could not be allowed unsupervised in our national parks, heaven forbid, picknickers, hikers, they would all be on the hit list! National Parks and Wildlife Service Officers had to be rostered to supervise these gun happy clowns during the big shoot.
The NSW taxpayer should be rightly outraged at this frivolous waste of their money. What brought on this outrage? None other than those two drongos sitting in the NSW LC representing The Shooters and Hooters Party, the 'Two Bobs' Borsak and Brown complicit with Boozy Barry O'Farrell and his Liberal/National, government. All to allow for the sell off, to Liberal cronies, of that very juicy plum known as the New South Wales electricity grid.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/7150-for-each-animal-killed-in-nsw-hunting-program-20140923-10kogt.html

Statistics based on part of one year?

Well done!

@Paul1405, Friday, 26 September 2014 7:14:19 AM

Easy to see why Julia Gillard who was forced into a partnership with the treacherous, headline-hunting Greens, described the Greens as simply a 'protest party'.

Of course Gillard was talking about the best of the Greens at the time and not the lunar NSW 'Watermelon Greens'.

Is Mise, @ $7152.00 per rabbit, the poor New South Wales taxpayer can't afford a whole year! How much do they charge to shoot feral wombats? There are a couple of the useless creatures with their snouts in the public trough sitting in Macquarie Street at the moment. They can't miss, they are of porky proportions anyway.
This must be a sick joke, perpetrated on the taxpayers of NSW. Boozy Barry must have agreed to it after downing a couple of bottles of his favorite Penfolds plonk, how else can you explain it? Lets hope the people take all this into account when they cast their vote in the NSW election next March.

Beach, is that the best you can come up with in regards to this outrages waste of public money in NSW? The Greens led by our animal welfare spokesperson Dr Mehreen Faruqi, all alone in the parliament have maintained there is no justification for allowing these "nutters" into national parks to shoot anything, even themselves! Again The Greens have been proven right. We think millions of dollars of public money might be better spent on schools, hospitals, transport, housing etc etc rather than pandering to the wishes of the lunatic fringe represented by The Shooter Party.
You cynically asked me once, what do The Greens achieve in parliament? The answer is obvious, often it is left to The Greens to articulate the alternative, giving a voice to the voiceless, when you find the big two acting in tandem on issues, with little regard to the wishes of the people. The above, a point in question!