Well, I'm back.

I got so excited over this discussion that
I sat down and did a bit more research.

Thanks Banjo for your excellent suggestion.
It turns out that it's the Department of
Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry that's
responsible. Here are two links that explain
things rather well:

http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/57780/IPA-Keeping-Rabbits-As-Pets-PA15.pdf

And -

http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/72789/IPA-Prohibited-Pets-PA24.pdf

Again Thanks to all of you for your help.
It makes things crystal clear to me now.

JayB, I am not a greenie, I am a fully paid up member of the NSW Greens, something I have freely admitted on this forum. You destroy your own argument, "Most Sporting Shooters are a dedicated lot & not Weekend Rambo's. Like all walks of life there are a few idiots, granted." I take it from your comment a minority of the minority are weekend Rambo's. So can we well afford to let this half dozen, ten, whatever loose in our national parks, public spaces every weekend to get their jolly's with a gun. I don't think so!
"so anyone with a gun is a Rambo because you don't know anything about them. And, calm down son. There's no need to get agro." Not so, my oldest son has an unrestricted gun licence, told me all about how he went about getting it, including the questions 'Have you attempted to commit suicide in the last twelve months, have you had an AVO etc etc. He also told me he went for the licence test at a gun shop (country town), and the examiner was very helpful with the answers, for those who didn't know, no one failed. He also told me about the strange fellow who turned up for the exam wearing a flack jacket and camouflager gear, he also passed, and ordered a gun on the spot, no doubt to get his weekend jolly's. Unless you are 102 I'm not your son, and I'm not agro.

paul1405: He also told me about the strange fellow who turned up for the exam wearing a flack jacket and camouflager gear, he also passed,

I agree. You should have to;
1. A Mental Health Test to get a Gun licence.
2. A gun owner must have a, Certificate of Competence.
3. All weapons should be kept in a central Armoury, not at home.
4. All weapons must be signed, In & Out.
5. A letter of permission from the property owner must be presented before the weapon is released.
6. A Letter of permission from the Parks Department must be held before shooting on a National or State Park.

So you see, I'm on your side.

Paul says, "Feral animal control by all means, but keep the "Weekend Rambo's" on the side lines, leave it to the professionals", aren't they what is often referred to as "experts" & we all know what use they are.

No wonder the Greens are such a useless bunch with such ideas.

Yep, we could leave everything to the professionals, like say the World health Organisation. Well we could if we wanted a mess like the Ebola outbreak. Then think of the UN & any emergency you care to mention. The result is always disastrous.

We could bring in the Victorian Rural Fire Authority, if we want more dead people, & lots of houses burnt down.

Then of course if we want our finances in good shape, we could hire the experts from the last Labor/Green national government, they could fix almost anything, particularly if it was working before they arrived.

If you want anything done properly bring in a practical person, & remove any academic before they can stuff things up.

If you want feral animal control, for gods sake keep the park rangers out of the way, & bring in people who actually know which end of a gun is dangerous.

Sorry Jayb, but you miss the point.

I have my rifle to protect my young stock from the packs of wild dogs lousy commonwealth, state & council programs have allowed to multiply.

It is the only way I am allowed to do it. If my dogs are let out of their small yard, I will be fined, & the dogs probably put down, so they can't help.

I suppose if there was someone thing/person to fine for those wild dogs, we might get some control, but no such luck.

Our councils are a waste of space, full of over paid planners, & no workers.

I found a couple of loose horses at an intersection of major country roads recently. They had been chased & were really flighty. Someone was going to get hurt, so I stopped & caught one with the only bit of rope I had. Fortunately the other stayed with it's mate off the road.

20 minutes on the phone to the council only proved that they had no one who could be spared from the air conditioned office to do anything about this. With a cast of thousands & costing a fortune, they are a problem rather than a service.

Finally a couple of city type girls turned up in police uniforms, with equally no idea. At my suggestion they organised another cop to bring a couple of halters from town.

With the horses secured I then noticed a area where the long grass was flattened, leading to a spot where a car had gone through a fence into a small paddock.

The extra cop was dispatched to find "something" to patch the fence, & 3 hours after I'd stopped the horses were kind of secure.

Continued

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The police girls vowed to find out who owned the paddock & horses, & get things fixed. I didn't have the heart to tell them that the land probably belongs to SEQEB, our electricity authority, who have recently built a substation in one corner of the small paddock.

They were nice young ladies, if a bit clueless, & I mentally wished them luck, with that huge bureaucratic organisation, finding out who owned the horses, or even who had given permission for them to be there.

So sorry Jayb, I need my rifle here, & Paul, which "professionals" would you suggest I should have called?