Politics & Council
22 May, 2024
Letter - Better than Easter? That's a joke
Better than Easter? That’s a joke Sir, I question the claim that duck season was “as good as Easter” (Loddon Herald May 2). Cr Dan Straub claimed that duck season is ‘as good as Easter’ during a recent Loddon Shire Council meeting as...
Better than Easter?
That’s a joke
Sir, I question the claim that duck season was “as good as Easter” (Loddon Herald May 2).
Cr Dan Straub claimed that duck season is ‘as good as Easter’ during a recent Loddon Shire Council meeting as reported in the Loddon Herald.
How can we trust the leadership in council when they promote their own cause and not the ratepayers?
The truth was bent substantially. This is now a running joke around town.
There were over 1000 visitors in Boort over Easter, the majority staying at the Caravan Park, Free Camping site at Boort Park and an overflow of approximately 40 vans near the swimming pool. Not to mention extra families staying with relations and numerous day visitors. Boort was alive end to end for almost a week.
I drove to the wetlands on duck killing eve and was surprised to see how few shooters there were compared to other years. Most duck shooters camp onsite and bring their own supplies.
Over 80 per cent of Victorians want duck shooting to end as it is so harmful to the flora and fauna, yet the three anti-woke councillors made the Loddon Shire support duck killing at the State Parliament Inquiry Into Duck Shooting.
Why didn’t the councillors support the majority of ratepayers? I thought that we lived in a democracy. The councillors should have put their own submissions in and not made use of Council Privilege.
Less than half of one per cent of the population are actually duck shooters, I think that it would be much better to aim for one or two per cent of the general population to visit northern Victoria. Duck shooters claim that they are great environmentalists and yet I cannot name one environmental project carried out by field and game around Boort’s significant wetlands, only destruction of their surrounds.
I have never forgiven the shooters at Box Flat near Boort where, over 2000 birds of all descriptions floated ashore - no-one was prosecuted for this crime. Some shooters, once they get their bag full just keep on shooting and let the birds stay where they fall.
I get so disappointed when I see duck shooters camping on Aboriginal cooking mounds.
There needs to be training and respect for the past, this year we lost a magnificent Scarred Tree to a duck shooters campfire at Yando Swamp.
Paul Haw
Boort