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22.01.2022 Very appropriate cartoon. Sadly it is very true

22.01.2022 You have got to be joking Labor. Penny Wong call on selling off our farms to foreigners !!!!! Penny Wong said a Labor government would make it easier for intern...ational investors to buy Australian farms worth up to $50 million. Senator Wong yesterday said a federal Labor government would lift the threshold at which most proposed farm purchases by foreign companies are scrutinised by the Foreign Investment Review Board from $15 million to $50 million. Labor would also scrap a special foreign investment review category for the purchase of agribusinesses. https://stopforeignownershipinaustralia.com.au//senior-ch/

21.01.2022 Queensland, closed one day, asking someone else to pick up the tab the next. Honestly asking for a federal bailout when you have bankrupted your own state and c...losed it off to the rest of the country for months and months. You couldn’t make this stuff up. Palaszczuk once again demonstrating how inept and ridiculous she really is. https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au//22f5183e9a06f5de6ed65aa

19.01.2022 #auspol You couldn’t make this stuff up if they paid you the doubly standards of the Queensland government is beyond belief. Remember the outrage over the black... throated finch you could buy on the net for twenty dollars? When it suits them they kill a very rare bird there is nothing safe with these commies and they keep hiding behind a virus. (The Australian) A decision by the Queensland government to allow the killing of rare birds for scientific study has sparked a furious response from nature lovers, as well as heated debate about whether government agencies should be moving on from a centuries-old tradition that requires the collection of wildlife for research. The Queensland Environment Department approved the collection by the CSIRO’s Australian National Wildlife Collection of up to six specimens of a recently discovered bird known as the Atherton quail-thrush. The decision was made without the department undertaking studies to determine the bird’s population or distribution. Nonetheless, it concluded that the conservation status of the quail-thrush is of least concern. The quail-thrush is known from a small area of woodland in north Queensland on the western fringes of the Atherton Tableland. It is closely related to the more widely distributed spotted quail-thrush of southeast Australia. The CSIRO argues that collection permits are needed for DNA studies to determine the taxonomic status of the bird whether it might be an undescribed species, or a new subspecies of the spotted quail-thrush. Queensland naturalist John Young discovered the first nests of the Atherton quail-thrush in 2019. Young came to fame in 2013 when he took the first photographs of a night parrot, described as the world’s most mysterious bird. Mr Young says the necessary information to allow DNA studies to determine the bird’s taxonomy could be obtained by netting one alive for feathers and blood analysis; it could then be released. In this day and age there is no way that killing birds for this sort of study can be condoned, he says. Scientists have for centuries collected large numbers of specimens of wildlife to facilitate the study of its taxonomy and behaviour. Many museums prize their collections of specimens of rare animals. Over-collecting in the past has been identified as a key factor in causing the extinction of many species. In 1985, American scientist Christopher Filardi caught and killed an extremely rare moustached kingfisher in the mountains of Solomon Islands. The kingfisher was known from just three historic specimens. Its collection prompted an international outcry against Filardi’s American Museum of Natural History. At the time, eminent evolutionary biologist Marc Beckoff wrote: When will the killing of animals stop? We need to give this question serious consideration because far too much research and conservation biology is far too bloody and does not need to be. In a letter to concerned north Queensland residents last week, Queensland Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon defends the quail-thrush permits. The letter says the department considered whether the CSIRO’s objectives could be met by non-lethal means, and impacts that collection would have on species conservation. The minister acknowledges the contribution organisations such as CSIRO and state museums make to the conservation of native species, and that at times it is necessary for specimens to be collected from the wild to enable vital work to be undertaken, the letter states. The quail-thrush was first photographed by Atherton wildlife tour guide Jonathon Munro in 2008. Mr Munro says he has been contacted by several museums asking for the whereabouts of birds so multiple specimens could be collected: I was prepared to help trap birds and take tissue/blood/feather samples and whatever else was necessary for their study, and then release them, but I was told they had to be collected. Leo Joseph, the director of the CSIRO’s Australian Wildlife Collection, says he has deferred plans to collect birds in response to community concerns. Dr Joseph says: I wouldn’t see the need to collect more than one or two. We won’t properly know if it’s a distinctive population or subspecies without at least one specimen. The more we know about how distinctive a bird is, the better it can be for the bird. https://www.theaustralian.com.au//628132469d50237238923242