Someone please refresh my memory, but here we have the other side of the coin arguing about "pushing someone else's barrow"...didn't we recently have the SSM-LGTBTI-Land Rights for Left Handed Lesbian Harp Seals brigade forcing us to 'Vote' on a plebiscite ?

Funny how those who feel that others should participate in their chosen 'sport' get antsy about the same principles being applied.

Given the recent spate of stabbings, isn't it about time we registered all knives and brought in licensing for owners, also making it mandatory for those owning a knife to attend cooking/knife handling classes at approved venues, with Commissioners approved, lockable safes installed at homes possessing a knife/knives?

Oh, we already tried something similar, it's called "Vehicle Registration", but despite all the dollars spent on education, safety awareness programmes etc we still see an ungodly amount of lives lost and damaged as a result of idiots behind steering wheels...hypocrites... no one seen marching in the streets, lobbying politicians for the banning of Toyota Corolla's or campaigning against this tragic loss of life is there ?

Toni,

Any comments on "Pollutionfest" in Sydney last night?

Was it user pays or was the show for free?

More powder was burnt in the first minute than will be used on ANZAC Rifle Range in the next ten years.

Where do the Greens stand on this annual act of wanton pollution and scareing of animals and birds?
The 'possums and other denizens of the Botanical Gardens must have been terrified.

Hi Is Mise,

I said to you sometime ago, that the second best option for the ANZAC Range was as it had been, thus keeping it out of the hands of developers. The local community, was/is very much in favor of the range being turned over to passive recreational use, part of a national park. This had been promised by successive governments and oppositions for many years. A secret eleventh hour deal with senator David Leyonhjelm seen the range handed over to the NSWRA.

Your argument about who should pay, is a nonsense, the shooters should pay for having exclusive use granted to less than 2% of the population.

The next fight will be over Long Bay Jail

Paul,

Good to see that your first post of the New Year is the usual un-researched bull.
ANZAC Range is as it is because the Commonwealth lost two court cases not because of any secret deals.
The land was given 'in perpetuity' but the Government successfully argued that perpetuity:

"perpetuity

noun
1.
the state or quality of lasting forever.
"he did not believe in the perpetuity of military rule"
2.
a bond or other security with no fixed maturity date."
did not mean forever and so the court cases began.

Developers would love the land but as it is so highly contaminated that it would take years for people in Hazmat suits to clear it and many, many millions of dollars, the only way to make it pay would be skyscraper apartment blocks crowded as closely together as would be legally (or illegally) possible.

As it is now the locals are only too happy to see the range stay there as it stops development and allows them free access to the headland.

How typical of a lefty. Paul tells us "The local community, was/is very much in favor of the range being turned over to passive recreational use, part of a national park", but gives nothing to support this garbage.

I expect a few NIMBY types would rather see a garbage filled park, than apartments, or shudder public housing full of human ferals.

Yes I expect some green/left ratbag group would want to stop intelligent usage of this bit of land. Make it a national park, full of vermin, & used by 6 people a month, is their idea of success. Thank god neither happened.

We already have far too many national parks to be able to maintain & service them adequately. We are locking them up to be a vermin filled fire hazard all over the country. The obvious end result of green/left stupidity.

Nice to see a rare win for common sense.

//Any comments on "Pollutionfest" in Sydney last night?//

Waste of time & money. Frankly, I don't know why anyone bothers.

I see nobody has had a crack at trying to explain why I should be providing the well-heeled residents of the North Shore with upper-middle class welfare. But I guess since the wealthy have bigger houses and bigger cars and bigger bank balances than normal folk they also have a bigger sense of entitlement to match.

Which apparently we should all just pander to, because one day the Old Boys of the Sydney GPS's who like to pop off a few rounds every now and then with their old chums from their school's rifle club will save us all from the invading army of Imaginationland. Apparently the Imaginationlandic army only has a small force of infantry, which the tiny percentage of the population who are sporting shooters will have no trouble seeing off. This is a good thing, because we'd be stuffed if Imaginationland brought their airforce with them and all we had was a handful of blokes with rifles. Although exactly where the ADF is in all of this is a bit of a mystery...