Banning of duck and quail hunting
Eligibility - Queensland residentsGPO BOX 2050
BRISBANE Q 4001 QLD
The petition of residents of Queensland draws to the attention of the House the failure to follow due process in banning traditional duck and quail hunting, resulting in:
- Conservation being abandoned in favour of satisfying animal rights and welfare activists;
- A precedent for ignoring due process
- Those conspiring to mislead Government being rewarded rather than punished
- Traditional rights of citizens being removed unjustly
Your petitioners therefore request the House to:
a) Overturn the decision of the Minister of Environment to ban traditional duck and quail hunting;
b) Recognise the inherent dangers of any Government process being hijacked by extremists
c) Guarantee that the "Smart State's " wildlife management will be based on world's best scientific practice.
d) Launch an immediate and transparent inquiry into the process involved to investigate whether the Minister was adequately informed about:
- The lack of scientific credibility of the deceptive information relied on by the AWAC in assessing wounding rates;
- The need for appropriate stakeholder consultation
- The dangers of ignoring ecological consequences
- Why the Duck and Quail Management Advisory Committee (D&QMAC), the Government's advisory body was neither consulted nor informed;
- The illusion of public support for the ban created through the animal rights activists "form letter" campaign.
- The contrived nature of the campaign to progressively ban all reacreational hunting and fishing in Queensland.