NathanJ,

The interview you refer to was yet another case of the media interviewing the media and making news.

All a part of the 24hr news cycle where speculative gossip is the order of the day. TV channels are using their own 'personalities' (got to laugh at the pretentious us of 'personality' to make news. An example could be the TV channel that had its own presenters' reactions (scripted no doubt) to the Martin Place hostage crisis as the 'news' for the day - make that days.

There is no need to be a part of the circus. The baying mobs manipulated and led by the media.

What about getting your teeth into government mandated indigenous hunting methods that are devastatingly cruel to marine turtles and Dugongs? Just Google.

Harpooning the gentle creatures and cutting parts off to incapacitate the turtles to 'store' them for when needed.

-where the government mandates cruelty for gentle giants in Australia.

OTB,

You might find this interesting/strange

"11. In the development of framework agreements to facilitate treaties and other formal agreements that recognise the inherent rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples in New South Wales;"

it's from the Greens NSW policy statements.

I wonder what traditional rights Torres Strait islanders had with the NSW tribes, one would think that the mobs in what is now NSW wouldn't have traveled far enough north to be considered traditional Island enemies/tucker.

Is Mise,

The Greens are about narrative. Facts, numbers, only get in the way.

Guy's most of them probably think the Torres Strait near Wollongong somewhere.

Or for another take on narrative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5OlBT2OcGg

R0bert

Yes, lets condemn indigenous for what by our standards are devastatingly cruel hunting methods of marine turtles and Dugongs. Closer to home, unfortunate some voices such as the Shooters and Fishers Party NSW were deafeningly quite when Greens MLC John Kaye recently exposed the entrenched cruelty of the Greyhound Industry in this state. The barbaric baiting of dogs with live rabbits, possums and even piglets. Not content with the torturous treatment of defenseless animals, these greyhound types in their never ending pursuit of a fast buck from dogs, force these poor animals to "race" in packs around a track at break neck speed, often the poor animasl suffer horrific injuries, broken bones, torn muscles and even death, all for a so called "sport"! If a poor unfortunate greyhound should be deemed too slow to race, or its racing days are over, the dog is often disposed of with a bullet to the head, possibly a quick death, but at other times an agonizingly slow death awaits the unfortunate animal. It has been known for some slow dogs to be clubbed to death to save a bullet, Where were the Two Bobs from the Shooters and Hooters Party when John was exposing this vile "industry", most like down at Wenty having a punt, and rubbing shoulders with their "industry" cronies!

Beach where do you and Joe stand on this one?

http://www.greyhoundcruelty.com/

Paul1405,

As you know from previous replies I am not and have never been a member of any political party.

So you are just going to have to address the facts of government-sanctioned cruel, unsustainable indigenous killing of sea turtles and Dugong.

http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/dugong-deaths-on-par-with-whales-activist/story-fnk0b1zt-1227038321516

Of course the cruel practices don't only apply to Dugong and sea turtle, do they?

The double standards of political correctness and indigenous politics in our own backyard.

As for Australia's so-called 'strong laws' and 'strong law enforcement', not only is a blind eye turned courtesy of the policies of multiculturalism but the laws can even mandate for the cruelty to occur.

The same happened with ritual slaughter and is still happened. All hidden under the rug and nothing said, then a shocked, "We didn't know" (Yeah, right!) from BOTH sides of government. However SFA is done and it all continues. All because the political correctness of indigenous politics and multiculturalism and to buy vote margins in contested electoral seats.

The arrant hypocrisy of activism. -Speaking of which, the Greens are in it up to their ears.