Forestry protesters not only abusive but dangerous
Posted on 27 January 2012 by Content Manager
The NSW forest industry is heavily regulated and operates legally and sustainably in our State Forests. They create jobs and conserve the environment and wildlife habitat, yet they are harassed and hindered by a small group of rude, offensive, recalc...
The farce of the National Coalition for Gun Control
Posted on 25 January 2012 by Content Manager
This is a speech given in Parliament by Robert Borsak on the National Coalition for Gun Control in June 2011. Now seems a good time to remind everyone of the kind of people who want to end law-abiding firearm ownership. Not only do they lie, they are...
Greens accept firearm ownership as legitimate
Posted on 24 January 2012 by Content Manager
Shooters and Fishers Party MLC, the Hon. Robert Brown, today welcomed what he said was the belated acceptance by the Greens of the legitimacy of private ownership of firearms.He said however, the Greens firearms spokesman David Shoebridge, now wants...
Greens vow to impose three-gun limit
Posted on 23 January 2012 by Content Manager
Three guns will be the most you can own under new legislation the Greens have vowed to introduce to NSW this year."It is simply wrong that individuals can accumulate an unlimited number of deadly weapons, with next to no scrutiny of their need for th...
SSAA slams un-Australian proposal
Posted on 21 January 2012 by Content Manager
The Sporting Shooters Association says proposed changes to NSW electoral funding laws are undemocratic and un-Australian, and would damage the organisation’s efforts to represent their members.“The changes are seen as a blatant attempt to...
NPWS is deaf to international expertise
Posted on 19 January 2012 by Content Manager
Hawaii is proving that volunteer hunters are an effective and often essential tool in conservation management, and a paper published by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature shows how feral pigs are being removed with the help of hun...
A cynical law to choke your SFP
Posted on 18 January 2012 by Content Manager
The NSW Government is proposing legislation that will cut off essential funding from smaller political parties, such as the Shooters and Fishers Party. This is an edited version of a speech given today by the Hon. John Tingle to parliament during the...
Top conservationist backs game hunting
Posted on 16 January 2012 by Content Manager
Ian Player, a major figure in wildlife preservation, has put his weight behind hunting as a conservation measure, and says a game reserve that auctioned off a rhino hunt would be a "new frontier in conservation".Hunters "have played a big role in the...
SFP slams dismissal of duck season benefits
Posted on 10 January 2012 by Content Manager
The Shooters and Fishers Party has hit back at comments by a government agronomist that dismiss the re-introduction of a duck season to help control waterbird numbers.The ABC on Friday quoted NSW Department of Primary Industries agronomist John Fowle...
Conservationist lies exposed ... again!
Posted on 9 January 2012 by Content Manager
Five of the state’s most prominent conservation groups have invented extraordinary lies that make good and sustainable land use sound like environmental destruction on a massive scale.They claim “a vast area of native bushland in NSW,&rdq...
Duck mitigation's failure
Posted on 6 January 2012 by Content Manager
NSW rice farmers have been devastated by a plague of ducks that were allowed to thrive under mismanagement by the state’s National Parks and Wildlife Service, according to Shooters and Fishers Party MLC Robert Borsak.“The current NPWS-imp...
