The Shooters Party & Preferences

[ACTAngler]

Any answers yet, Sidecast?

Welcome aboard Sidecast.  Any chance of a response to these questions, which the Anglers Action Group posed to the major political parties:

1. What is your vision for recreational fishing in NSW?

2. If elected, what one thing will your party do during its first term to improve recreational fishing for future generations?

3. What do you believe is the best structure to represent the interests of the recreational fishers in NSW? Do you believe recreational fishing licence fees should be used to fund the interests of recreational fishers?

4. How would you reduce the apparent conflict between the interests of commercial and recreational fishers in NSW? How would you reduce the apparent conflict between the interests of Commonwealth commercial fishers (eg bait gathering) and recreational fishers in NSW?

5. How would you improve the use of recreational license fees so they would offer greater benefit to recreational fishers in NSW?

6. What is the single biggest environmental issue facing NSW that your party feels it could directly influence and what will you do about it?

[CEO]

 ECOfishers have posed and presented their own series of questions to the major parties. We have also had discussions with some of the "Independents!" ECOfishers views have been well canvassed already, on this site and apparently others.

[CEO]

ABC's "GREAT DEBATE."  Labor's Macdonald said, "Our marine parks are here to stay." (ie his and the Greens) Quick as a flash, the Coalition's Duncan Gay, quipped, "and the Coalition will roll them back. The only science behind Labor's marine parks is political science and that's all about preferences from the Greens." It was beautiful. I could hear fishers and farmers from all over the state, cheering Duncan Gay!

[CEO]

  ECOFISHERS:     We will not be supporting the Shooters Party. Not even with preferences. Not only did they actively support Labor's draconian marine park legislation in the Upper House, which resulted in the establishment of the Cape Byron Political Park, the Port Stephens  and Bateman's Bay Parks. They also voted with LABOR in a futile attempt to deny Prof Jon Jenkins, having Labor table all the relevant Grey Nurse Shark documents, in the Upper House. Don't align yourselves with a Party which has a very poor public image and a track record of supporting Labor when the chips are down.

[ACTAngler]

A little birdie tells me that the ECOfishers CEO is meeting with (or may have already met with) the Shooter's Party in Taree.  Has something changed since 2007?

[Monty]

I hope things have changed. The groups who want to lock us out of the natural environment are definitely united. If groups who enjoy and spend time in the natural environment want to continue they must be united against the "lock it up and leave it" extremists.