12 October
2006 - Kim Beazley's Labor party has today ridiculed
Australia's efforts to protect and preserve whales
and ridiculed all those Australians who have stood
behind their government's strong stance on whaling.
Northern Territory Labor Senator
Trish Crossin today attacked the Australian Government's
international leadership on whaling claiming that
the "Minister (for the environment) thinks
he can save the whales by wearing a scrap of blue
plastic on his wrist".
"90,000 Australians are wearing the saveourwhales.gov.au
wristbands to show their concern for the plight
of the planet's whales – 90,000 Australians who
Labor is happy to ridicule", the Minister
for the Environment Senator Ian Campbell said.
"Senator Crossin's outburst
today, presumably with the compliance of Labor
leader Kim Beazley and Labor Environment Spokesman
Anthony Albanese, not content to ridicule ordinary
Australians, also ridicules those sitting Labor
members who have ordered saveourwhales wrist bands
by the boxful on behalf of their constituents.
These include:
Claire Moore 500 wristbands
Kelly Hoare 1050 wristbands
Daryl Melham 30 wristbands
Julie Owens 200 wristbands
Arch Bevis 40 wristbands
Labor is clearly out of step
with the tens of thousands of Australians who
support the Australian Governments international
campaign against pro-whaling countries who seek
to return to the wholesale slaughter of cetaceans.
Rob Broadfield
Labor again confused: this time
it's crocodiles
12 October 2006 - The Australian
Labor Party has today revealed that it wants safari
hunting of crocodiles in the Northern territory.
In the Senate today ALP Senator
Trish Crossin attacked the Australian Government’s
decision not to allow crocodile hunting in the
Northern Territory, despite concerns about the
cruelty of amateur hunting.
I support the professional culling
of six hundred crocodiles per year in the Northern
Territory. Culling is performed humanely and professionally
under strict guidelines.
By comparison, amateur trophy
hunting can—and does—leave crocodiles wounded
and in distress.
"My decision not to approve
licences which would allow trophy hunting of crocodiles
in the Northern Territory is completely consistent
with modern day humane thinking about wildlife.
Amateur hunters have a sorry track record of not
killing with the first shot and wounding their
prey which then escape to die painfully and slowly.
"What's it to be – preserving
and protecting Australia's wildlife or killing
crocs for trophies. What is Labor's stance on
crocodile shooting?"
Rob Broadfield
