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Property Rights Australia

Locality: Rockhampton, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4921 4000

Address: 122 Denham Street QLD 4700 Rockhampton, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.propertyrightsaustralia.org

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25.01.2022 A too rare event these days where a government has proposed policy platform and has changed it when presented with how it would have negative impacts by those hands on in the industry. It should be something standard in the consultation or Parliamentary Committee process before a Bill is presented to parliament to be passed. How can the drafters of new legislation possibly have the insight to know how every last provision could work out in the real world. But government repea...tedly fails to listen & stubbornly jam legislation through as if there have political capital invested & any wavering would be seen as a weakness. Good on the SA government for listing to its commercial fishing industry. Its a great pity that the NSW Lib/Nat coalition failed to do so when implementing it's so called reform package. Qld ALP has a reform package prepared that it is about to unleash on our providers of seafood. The impacts will be massive with a third of Qld commercial fishers gone in the next 18 months. https://www.westcoastsentinel.com.au//quota-backflip-prais

24.01.2022 https://www.abc.net.au//federal-environment-law-/12930328 Reforms to the EPBC Act appear to be set for rejection in the Senate. Attempts to reduce red and green tape are not, according to Labor and the cross benches, matched by adequate protections. They are opposed to streamlining and allowing the states to issue approvals and effectively act as a one-stop shop. Also recommended, by reviewer Professor Graeme Samuel is an ‘independent regulator. Minister Sussan Ley has al...ready ruled that out. That is a good thing. Any independent regulator is, by its very description, unaccountable to the public. Such a person, would inevitably be someone acceptable to the environmental movement, possibly of that movement and very probably agriculture averse. Big business can usually pay to pollute through offsets and that option is available in the EPBC Act. Such costs are beyond the pockets of agriculture who already bear a disproportionate amount of environmental costs. There was also a time when many of us called out environmental organisations for using pictures of foreign reef damage or damage that was inappropriate to the story. Eventually they mostly began to use appropriate images. The same cannot be said for the ABC in this story. The damage here is not caused by anything that could or would be addressed by any version of the EPBC Act. The damage to this reef is most likely caused by cyclone. What community is having the finger pointed at it here? If they feel motivated to use reef picture, why not a healthy thriving reef which most of it is unless it has suffered recent natural damage. See more

24.01.2022 Kerry Lonergan has been punted from Landline because ABC managers say they "going in a different direction" with the long running rural program.

23.01.2022 It is a great shame that the Royal Commission failed to call any of the renowned experts highlighted in this article. For me it reflects on the rest of their work. They appeared to have put some time into motivating all the phone companies into co-operating and improving the resilience of their phone communications during a natural disaster, but did they? They also appeared to be delving into the logistics of better and more integrated use of the available fire fighting airc...raft fleet, but did they? If they prefer the evidence of mostly desk-bound academics, some of whom have been putting forward unbelievable hypotheses or research, their credibility has to be questioned. There were people there who spoke on behalf of the creatures furry and not so furry, mostly about recovery plans (funding for that) but not a word about the environmental advocates role in neglect of national parks and just too many areas of unbroken forest under government control which amounts to 75% of the Shire of East Gippsland, one of the fire-prone areas. See more

23.01.2022 Quite frankly, profiteering from water trading, including it would appear, by state and federal governments, should have been foreseen and that the market would force those who most need the water for a productive endeavour, out of the market. The claim is always made that it would force the water to be used for the most profitable endeavours such as the most profitable crops. It would appear that the most profitable endeavour is water trading.

23.01.2022 " Citrus Australia is shocked and disappointed with today’s decision by State Ministers to endorse a Health Star Rating system that gives diet coke a higher rating than fresh Australian juice. Read more: https://citrusaustralia.com.au//health-star-rating-credibi https://twitter.com/CitrusAustra/status/1332172792167448578

23.01.2022 ''Will not be bullied': citizens around the world told to buy Australian wine in stand against China' "Millions of people around the world are being urged to buy an Australian bottle of wine or two, as a way of showing Chinese President Xi Jinping that the world will not be intimidated by his "bullying of Australia". The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), comprising more than 200 MPs from a range of political parties and representing 19 country legislatures, has la...unched a campaign to convince people to buy and drink Australian wine in December, as a show of solidarity." https://www.smh.com.au//will-not-be-bullied-citizens-aroun The video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04CVZeyuaCk

20.01.2022 Government departments have no thought about national parks other than achieving some magical percentage of land area under national park control. This plays well to those who think it is an environmental measure but not to those who have to bear the burden of a seed bed for weeds, a breeding ground for feral animals and and a fire hazard, otherwise known as neighbours.

20.01.2022 By cartoonist Zeg for an article by WA based Ron Manners https://www.mannwest.com/property-rights-in-wa-an-endangere

20.01.2022 Just how threatened or rare does wildlife need to be to be listed as threatened. The threatened Carnaby's Cockatoo is the subject of stories about crop destruction almost every Summer. As usual, there is a standoff between the attitudes of farmers and environmentalists. Predictably, environmentalists take the hard line and believe that if landowners cannot factor in costs such as for netting they should not be growing the crop. Farmers are asking for support to have netting i...nstalled. Surely there needs to be a realisation that if farmers are expected to take care of the environment on behalf of the community they should be compensated for costs involved. We are not talking about anything like full biodiversity certification which will ave its drawbacks but practical and straightforward assistance. https://www.abc.net.au//black-cockatoos-damage-ap/12915174

19.01.2022 This quote also applies to fishing & farming. Part of an opinion article by Mark Poynter "Most of us are sceptical of mass-market advertising. It is, by design, based on selective facts, exaggeration or distortion, emotion, and even blatant untruths in some instances. Environmental campaigns against native forest use have, since the mid-1980s, been based on these core principles. But without exception, they have also featured a strategic omission of wider context and perspective, such as, for example, acknowledging the actual scale and proportional extent of timber harvesting, or the adverse socio-economic and environmental consequences of ending it. " Look for an article at Online Opinion called, 'Bob Brown legal challenge shines a light on decades of environmental misinformation'

18.01.2022 Cartoonist Dean Alston from the West Australian. There are endless opinions about tech social media heavy weight, Facebook, pushing it's weight around. On the one hand for a regional/ rural focused organisation such as PRA this platform allows the means to advocate where there is a large amount of people and to publish material that metro media just don't appear to be interested in covering.... The editorial in the Australian Financial Review claimed: "Australians traditionally do not like their government being bullied. Even though the stand-off with China is costing money, internal polling shows that around three-quarters of the population backs the government in not backing down. Facebook is not far off a nationless state and the feeling within the government is that the punters won’t appreciate it bullying Australia either, more so after the tech giant got it so spectacularly wrong on Thursday by going way beyond blocking media sites and targeted essential services, sporting clubs, charities and small businesses. These actions will only confirm the concerns that an increasing number of countries are expressing about the behaviour of big tech companies who think they are bigger than governments and that the rules should not apply to them, Morrison said. They may be changing the world, but that doesn’t mean they should run it. * Allan Fels, former head of the ACCC, now the chair of Public Interest Journalism believes Facebook has laid themselves open to legal action, as reported in the Daily Telegraph. "It is unconscionable for Facebook to limit access to Australian Government information, be it weather, health or bushfire information, Professor Fells said in a statement. This is not ‘news’, nor content envisaged under the Mandatory News Bargaining Code (which) seeks to address a significant market power imbalance. That is the role of the ACCC and government, to ensure a level playing field. "

18.01.2022 This will be interesting to see how the Australian Press Council responds to this complaint by Forest & Wood Communities Australia. Many of us are seasoned & cynical enough to say "don't hold your breath." Access to both the offending "hatchet job" essay published in The Monthly and Forest & Wood Communities Australia detailed critique can be found in this link below. It is too often that a post is published on the PRA page, usually a screenshot with the first two words, "Fa...ct Check" that contain a response to a poor journalistic effort. ***** "It would have been easy to ignore the essay given how few people appear to be aware of it, but the more we leave these unjustified attacks unanswered, the more traction they get, said FWCA Managing Director Justin Law. The author appears to be another in a long line of ideological crusaders who are easily seduced by narrow-focused anti-forestry propaganda dressed up as scientific fact. They are not interested in contributing to positive environmental outcomes because they refuse to objectively engage with genuine forestry experts to learn the whole story." read more: https://fwca.org.au/complaint-lodged-against-the-monthlys-f

16.01.2022 The call is out to take China to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over its cold war type tactics of targeting Australian exports such as barely & wine. Don’t hold your breath for the international sheriff to gallop in to restore trading peace. In 2018 the Australian, Brazilian and Guatemalan governments took India to the WTO over its large subsidies paid to Indian sugar cane farmers causing an international price glut. Admittedly some delay has been cause d by COVID restrictions but it is towards the end of 2020 when the hearing has been held. We wait for the new year for the decision from the WTO. https://www.abc.net.au//australian-vs-india-sugar/12935044

16.01.2022 Inland rail route across the Condamine flood plain - it is the engineering feasibility that locals would be most interested in. How the design will allow the flood water to flow; what restrictions the design would place on flood water; where would damaging impacts be pushed to elsewhere; will the rail way structure withstand damage and will it require ongoing expensive maintenance. **** "Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack has refused to answer questions about a review ...of an alternate Inland Rail alignment he commissioned. On June 29, Mr McCormack requested Australian Rail Track Corporation review an alternate route for the Border to Gowrie section of the $10 billion project, comparing the government’s selected route through Millmerran, Yandilla and Brookstead to Wellcamp, against an alternative forestry route via Cecil Plains. The review, released to the public earlier this month after being completed in September, found the Wellcamp route was both cheaper, by several hundred million dollars, and faster than two variations of the forestry route. The review did not assess or provide advice on the economic or engineering feasibility of the project, or which route alignment is preferred. " https://www.thechronicle.com.au//69e1071ac1f01da97831d433d

15.01.2022 Thank you Dr.Jennifer Marohasy for continuing to show that there are healthy corals on the Great Barrier reef where there have been reports of their demise. Also important are the insights into the methodology used and why it has the potential to be so wrong. At the Senate Inquiry AIMS said they would do more of the measuring if they were funded for it.

15.01.2022 LEGAL GUIDE FOR THE PRIMARY PRODUCER The Law Foundation Queensland have prepared this handbook that can be downloaded from this web page below. It covers an comprehensive array of topics from dividing fences, land access by resource companies, to workers compensation. The disclaimer is that the handbook reflects the law as at 30 April 2019 and it is not intended to be a substitute for specific advice about a particular problem. http://qlf.com.au/primary-producers-legal-handbook.html

15.01.2022 'Finding Porites: Old Corals with our Climate History' Dr Jennifer Marohasy's short film is now available on YouTube. Click on the link below. Well worth a watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZENS9xyK1a8

12.01.2022 Conditions are improving for those in SE South Australia where a grassfire whipped over a large area. One of the regulars on this page lost fencing but the livestock are accounted for. By all accounts things were quite hairy for a while. https://www.adelaidenow.com.au//ac96ef3856ef80f168e8b24505

11.01.2022 Greg Sheridan published an excellent opinion piece last Thursday titled, We are adrift, lazy and unprepared for any serious threat. Today my reply piece was ...published in the Australian. "Sheridan rightly points to the problem of supply chain resilience. If we do not have oil, we stop moving. If we do not have medicines, we can’t remain healthy. If we can’t defend our businesses and government from cyberattack, we go backwards economically and politically. All of these issues and more, given recent Chinese economic coercion create undeniable and uncomfortable threats we must confront. Australians need to come to a consensus about the nation we want to be and how we will sustain that in the face of real threat." To read my full article, please google ‘National security at risk without unity on threat preparation.’

11.01.2022 It is about time we had some clear thinking around this issue rather than just spin.

10.01.2022 Is it a correct observation that the most lonely are amongst where most of the population is? That the most isolated are not necessarily the most lonely? Is loneliness something government s should involve themselves in. A few years ago the UK government established a Minister for the lonely. Could in be the case for regional & remote landowners that loneliness isn't the greatest cause of stress but rather powerlessness in the face of government over regulation on most matte...rs especially on environmental matters or possibly little protective regulation when faced with large resource companies? https://www.abc.net.au//loneliness-queensland-to-/12911318

10.01.2022 Up to 235% rate increase by Bundaberg Regional Council. "Despite Bundaberg Mayor Jack Dempsey pledging to work to keep farmland rates increases at CPI (Consumer Price Index) in his 2020 pre-election campaigning, just months later farmers are reeling from rates increases up to 235 per cent, Mr Marland said. That’s simply outrageous, and no one can afford that. We’re still in drought, we’re battling water security issues associated with Paradise Dam, and we’re dealing with C...OVID. Right now, this region has 17 per cent unemployment. I know one farming family that has seen a jump of more than $30,000 in their rates bill. That’s a lot of money to be ripped from the community spend and put into council’s coffers. Bundaberg Canegrowers Director and third-generation farmer Dean Cayley said it showed complete disregard for a sector that is a cornerstone of the community. You have to wonder what game is being played here at a time when farmers and the whole community is facing hardship drought, water security issues, exorbitant power prices, COVID and unemployment, he said. This is a rate rise that was delivered in a way that was stealthy and completely unexpected and is impacting all farming sectors. " https://www.rural-leader.com.au//farmers-versus-council-fi

09.01.2022 'Qld ag industry to support Katter's Reef Regulation Reversal Bill' There could be a misunderstanding in this article. What is on this Friday (June 11) is a public briefing about the Bill and usually witness statements are not given at such an event. Actually submissions only close fir this Bill on June 30. The first scheduled Hearing is on September 3.... Link to to the Parliamentary Committee's Inquiry web page in the comment section below. * "Impacted farmers argue the act undermines existing efforts by growers to improve water quality and imposes 'big brother' style supervision over farming decisions. Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto said the measures in Labor's legislation are "a complete assault on farmers". " Read more: https://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au//qld-ag-industr/

09.01.2022 What's This? A case where it is being claimed that NOT ENOUGH sediment in the form of sand is making it to receiving waters of the Great Barrier Reef. We have heard for years about the evils of erosion, that it was all farmer's fault and that all the coral would be "smothered", according to environmental organisation spin. There was always something fishy about the accusation but it is very easy to believe if you live in a concrete jungle and the virtue signallers have attained an unassailable status.

09.01.2022 After years of studies of red meat being accused of being bad for our health a new look is being taken at whether it is really detrimental with previous studies based on weak science. * Last week’s news, however, goes a long way toward removing health effects from the list of reasons for favoring a vegetarian diet. The highly rigorous four-paper review of the science, in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine journal, looked at all the research examining health and re...d meat and concluded that only low- or very low-certainty evidence existed to show that this meat causes any kind of disease not cancer, not heart disease, not Type 2 diabetes. Eating red meat isn’t killing us. * Even though red meat consumption in the US (and Australia) has decreased significantly since 1970 the diseases it is accused of causing such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes are still on the increase. * The key phrase is strong body of evidence. Unfortunately, our nutrition guidelines are primarily based on epidemiological studies, which generally follow a large group of people over time, asking them to self-report what they’ve eaten and then observing eventual health outcomes. These studies can demonstrate association which has its uses but they rarely establish causation. The GRADE (a higher standard than epidemiology) team of 40-plus researchers from more than 10 countries to conclude that reducing your intake of meat is very unlikely to make you healthier. * As with much science these days, the advocates of a plant based diet often have conflicting influences. See more

09.01.2022 Playing loose with facts is rife in the NSW government approach to proposed koala protection policy according to Vic Jurskis. * Claiming that they will shut down logging of old-growth forest when it is already banned. * Urgency of the protection policy is based on made up historical koala population numbers because of the absence of data. * Government response supports lock it up, leave it approach to the habitat leaving it more prone to fire.... * A bushfire recovery plan with a focus on koalas after a bushfire instead of getting out doing the field work in the first place to stop the build up in fuel loads. Read the article here: https://spectator.com.au//now-the-nats-are-choosing-cute-n

09.01.2022 The Aussie Day lamb ad, hot off the BBQ this morning. This one was worth waiting for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCIMYjqWxwA

08.01.2022 Treasurer Josh Frydenberg as head of the FIRB has rejected the sale of Lion to a Chinese company as not in the national interest. That has allowed Australian company Bega to buy the company putting many brands back in Australian hands.

05.01.2022 'When Science Chooses to Block its Ears' Looks like Vic Jurskis will now go to the Supercars at Bathurst with his son after being willing to give this up to present a paper to the Institute of Foresters of Australia/Australian Forest Growers (IFA/AFG) national conference. Vic thought it was important he did so because - "I am disturbed because IFA/AFG has stated that mild burning is not the panacea for our bushfire problem. They’ve recently promoted junk science by academics ...claiming that climate change caused by humans is driving megafires and causing chronic decline of eucalypts, wrongly described by the academics as ‘dieback’. In fact, bushfires and forest health problems are two sides of a coin. In regard to forest health we have only one major environmental problem in this country lack of ecological maintenance by mild fire." Vic presented an abstract of his paper for prior consideration, which you can read in his opinion article (link below). He had to conclude - "Politically correct academics and bureaucrats fiddle around with their like-minded friends in conferences and peer-reviewed papers and media releases, untouched by reality, whilst Australia crashes and burns" https://quadrant.org.au//when-science-chooses-to-block-its

04.01.2022 Raquel was a very knowledgeable guest speaker at our conference in Chinchilla in March. She is head of the Chinchilla office.

03.01.2022 'DEVIATED DRILLING, TEARING THROUGH PROPERTY RIGHTS' Coal Seam Gas Deviated drilling is a deeply complicated issue that is silently sneaking up on landowners, literally. The intrusion of deviated drilling on unsuspecting landowners is coming to a head, silently. Although PRA previously foreshadowed this issue in posts on the subject since last December. PRA is providing this update to ensure that this issue is handled openly and that landowners do not remain isolated. Recen...tly some landowners have received unwelcome and confronting news in the mail from Arrow Energy. The letters advise that previously without the consent or knowledge of the farmers that Arrow have in the past drilled gas wells under their property from a point on the neighbouring property. Further, they will be providing post-dated entry notices for the wells. Arrow also note in the letter that Arrow reasonably expects [the deviated wells] to have no impact or only minor impact. Again landowners are the last to know that this has occurred. Again, individual landowners are left out of pocket (time-wise and financially) scrambling to understand the legal and practical implications. The data provided by Arrow raises more questions than it answers. When pressed, Arrow cites commercial in confidence or limply suggests the landowner contacts the departments. Read more detail as contained in this statement by Property Rights Australia: https://propertyrightsaustralia.org.au/deviated-drilling-te The statement finishes with a call for action. PRA is calling all concerned individuals, advisors, and rural advocacy groups to reach out and work together and provide a united front on this issue which so clearly encompasses all that is wrong with the approach to the gas industry. Enough of being dictated to, and working in isolation, it is time to drag our own chair up to the table and demand consideration, consultation, and prioritisation. PRA is working hard on this issue and welcomes collaboration. * Previous posts from the PRA Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PropertyRightsAustralia/posts/2795650177344143 https://www.facebook.com/PropertyRightsAustralia/posts/2859191054323388 https://www.facebook.com/PropertyRightsAustralia/posts/2865470057028821 https://www.facebook.com/PropertyRightsAustralia/posts/2865026947073132

02.01.2022 Here is a positive development where politicians across the political divide recognise the problem with censorship, of the right to free speech, in the hands of "tech behemoths". It shows a longer term vision for good governance instead of point scoring & ranting based only on current events. Regulations made to knock a perceived enemy off the perch can also come around in the future to do the same to other side. * "In a sign of growing anger at the technology giants in Aust...ralia, MPs from across the political spectrum have joined the group parliamentary friends of making social media safe that Victorian Nationals MP Anne Webster and NSW Labor MP Sharon Claydon are preparing to launch. Among numerous sets of sometimes conflicting concerns with the social platforms, one factor uniting the critics of Facebook (which also owns Instagram), Twitter and Google (which owns Youtube) is the belief the companies are opaque and inconsistent in how they decide what to ban. "There needs to be consistency to the way in which these tech companies moderate content, with transparent rules and guidelines for everyone," said Ms Andrews. "It concerns me that an outcry by prominent people or certain groups on social media may dictate their decision making, when there is incredibly vile, hateful and dangerous content that frequently goes unchecked." Read more: https://www.smh.com.au//we-need-boundaries-mps-want-consis

02.01.2022 Despite WWF's brutal international record and their ongoing assaults on farming, forestry & fishing in Australia, WWF continues to be considered a "stakeholder" for policy development. WWF successfully portrays itself as a credible voice on environmental matters by Australian politicians & media, but internationally, as seen in this article, many environmental organisations see through WWF's hypocrisy. "In March 2019, BuzzFeed News published a year-long investigation that ...found that WWF had funded and equipped eco-guards who have tortured, sexually assaulted, and killed people. In response, WWF launched an independent review. WWF finally released the review this week. It is, of course, pure coincidence that the review came out just days after WWF received US$100 million from the Bezos Earth Fund. "In a press release, Rainforest Foundation UK comments that, This long overdue 160-page report lays bare institutional failings and problems with its organisational culture that allowed these abuses to occur and go unaddressed. Rainforest Foundation UK points out that in its response to the review, WWF International fails to take responsibility and does not issue a sincere apology to the many individuals who have suffered human rights abuses. In many cases, WWF continued to finance and equip park rangers even after hearing about allegations of horrific human rights abuses." * Extract from statement from Six NGOs following the release of the independent review": "The report is also timely as governments are currently negotiating a global target for radically increasing the area of the globe under some form of protected status. The currently proposed target is 30% of the land area of the globe by 2030, a near doubling from today’s proportion of 15.4%. This report highlights the very real and significant dangers that are associated with such a target if it is applied in countries where indigenous peoples and local community rights are not recognised or respected and if it does not explicitly include commitments to increase the area of land under secure title for indigenous peoples and local communities." Lot more to read here: https://redd-monitor.org//killings-torture-sexual-and-phys

01.01.2022 Dr. Frank Mitloehner once again bringing to our attention the futility of blaming cows for global warming when in fact, they are inducing global cooling as long as the herd does not increase in size. Once again it is the simplistic nature of the easy IPCC accounting system which has been labelled as the culprit by Dr.Myles Allen, Oxford University. Using the current method of calculating emissions while pursuing global temperature goals risks eliminating practices, such as ...ruminant agriculture, that are not actually causing global warming, Allen wrote in recent comments submitted to the draft EU methane strategy. The new EU methane strategy had not been finalized as of the time of this story. Farmers across the globe have come on board to support Allen’s suggested GWP* metric. The National Farmers Union, National Sheep Association, Beef and Lamb New Zealand and other farming organizations signed a joint statement urging the sixth version of the IPCC currently being written to adopt the new GWP* system and fix inaccurate greenhouse gas calculators. Methane is a short-term flow gas rather than a stock gas like CO2. The miscalculation has long been recognised as problematic by the science community. Sticking with the status quo and not adopting the new GWP-star metric means that agriculture, and livestock production in particular, will be the only sector on the planet which is expected to have zero emissions plus induce global cooling in the same timeframe according to Beef and Lamb NZ. The science team from Oxford Martin are clear that we could all become vegetarians but without reducing fossil fuel emissions everything else would be futile. https://www.darigold.com/new-methane-math-could-take-the-h/ See more

01.01.2022 Wow! What a contrast to the last post on this page. The first politicians yielding to contrived outraged about highly unlikely environmental impacts. This article from Speak Up 4 Water about a real existing environmental impact that politicians are blind to caused by poorly targeted & managed environmental water policy. " Consistently high summer flows to meet unrealistic downstream targets, with no consideration for upstream damage, are causing massive issues with bank ero...sion. Passionate locals who are observant nature watchers have seen kingfisher nests eroded away, and have identified nesting sites along the Edward River, in particular, which have been destroyed in recent years by these excessive flows. He said there had been recent media attention around a decline in platypus numbers, and these unique Australian creatures also rely on river banks for their habitat and nesting. Maintaining and restoring bank stability is a vital part of platypus management and breeding. Yet under the Basin Plan it seems okay to destroy upstream habitat, as long as the ridiculous flow targets to South Australia are maintained. If the Basin Plan is all about protecting our environment, it should not be okay to ruin some parts with a pretence of helping others, Mr Polkinghorne said. " https://www.speakup4water.com//why-aren-t-we-protecting-ki