NSW Government passes Ammo Bill
Posted on 9 May 2012 by Content Manager
The Firearms Amendment (Ammunition Permits) Bill and attendant Regulation 2012 was passed by NSW Parliament yesterday in a deal between the Coalition and the Greens ... to do over the law abiding firearm owners of this State.Shooters should be concer...
Public land management is finally under review
Posted on 23 April 2012 by Content Manager
NSW Parliament has launched an Inquiry into the Management of Public Land in New South Wales, something the Shooters and Fishers Party has long been calling for.The inquiry will report on the use of public land including State Forests and National Pa...
The Gun Debate - who are the real victims?
Posted on 31 March 2012 by Content Manager
Law-abiding citizens and small-business owners are being hurt by the fumbling and ineffective attempts of politicians and senior police in WA to get tough on crimes that barely rate a mention in the state’s statistics.There has been a lot said...
Police Commissioner’s ‘care’ hides an unwanted agenda
Posted on 23 March 2012 by Content Manager
The WA Police Commissioner is disguising an anti-democratic agenda as concern for the “comfort” of the community, as revealed in his opinion piece for The West Australian newspaper on 12 March.In trying to justify laws that would limit th...
Police bust puts final nail in Government Ammo Bill
Posted on 22 March 2012 by Content Manager
The Government wishes to reduce the incidence of drive-by shootings in Sydney – a sentiment supported by all. However the Government mistakenly believes that stricter controls on the sale of ammunition by licensed firearms dealers will somehow...
Major parties challenged on Sydney's gun crime
Posted on 15 March 2012 by Content Manager
The Shooters and Fishers Party has challenged the Coalition and Opposition to get fair dinkum in addressing Sydney's gun crime, and back its Legislation introduced into State Parliament today to make it a separate crime to use a firearm in a crime.Th...
Shooters and Fishers Party to take on WA
Posted on 14 March 2012 by Content Manager
The Shooters and Fishers Party will take on Western Australia’s entrenched anti-shooting politics by re-establishing a branch in the State and contesting the next election.Both major parties in Western Australia are now threatening to introduce...
Ad campaign targets ammo Bill
Posted on 3 March 2012 by Content Manager
The Shooters and Fishers Party has run an advertising campaign in a number of regional newspapers, opposing the Coalition Government’s Firearms Amendment (Ammunition Control) Bill 2012.The campaign called for law abiding firearm owners to take...
Resource for writing letters on the Ammunition Control Bill
Posted on 28 February 2012 by Content Manager
Debate on the Firearms Act (Ammunition Control) Bill 2012 was adjourned on Wednesday night in the Legislative Council, and it cannot be debated again until at least 6 March when the House sits again.This gives us more time to intensify the pressure o...
Urgent! Action needed today!
Posted on 27 February 2012 by Content Manager
Apologies for the late notice – this message is particularly relevant to Newcastle and Lower Hunter firearm owners and relates to the Government's latest move to restrict your activities.John McKenzie has managed to put enough pressure on Tim O...
Environmental protesters
Posted on 24 February 2012 by Content Manager
Today I raise what appears to be a problem in the law and how it relates to anyone who claims to be an environmental protester. Our south-eastern forests contain miles and miles of native hardwood timbers which have been harvested, and probably re-ha...
Update on ammunition legislation
Posted on 23 February 2012 by Content Manager
The flood of protest calls made by firearms owners to local members of Parliament, over the Government/Green Bill to impose further controls on the sale of ammunition, has caused at least a temporary halt to debate on the legislation.The Government b...
Eco 'worriers' continue dangerous protests
Posted on 20 February 2012 by Content Manager
Anti-logging protesters continue to endanger themselves and forestry workers as they try to stop a legal, sustainable and important industry in NSW.Often repeat offenders, these dangerous and abusive self-styled ‘protectors’ of the enviro...
Proposed new ammunition laws have already failed in SA
Posted on 16 February 2012 by Content Manager
Shooters and Fishers Party MLC Robert Borsak said yesterday the Government's proposed changes to ammunition laws have already failed in South Australia.He said it was unfortunate the Government did not consult with us about their changes."We could ha...
Major parties challenged on Sydney's gun crime
Posted on 16 February 2012 by Content Manager
The Shooters and Fishers Party has challenged the Coalition and Opposition to get fair dinkum in addressing Sydney's gun crime, and back its Legislation introduced into State Parliament on Monday day to make it a separate crime to use a firearm in a...
Democracy for sale
Posted on 16 February 2012 by Content Manager
Shooters and Fishers Party MLC, Robert Borsak, says the State Government's new electoral funding laws, passed by a deal with the Greens last night, are an attack on small parties like the Shooters and Fishers Party.He said the Legislation limits and...
National Parks need to stop poisoning animals
Posted on 7 February 2012 by Content Manager
Shooters and Fishers Party MLC, Robert Borsak, says the National Parks and Wildlife Service should dump its helicopter gunships and indiscriminate poisoning approach to feral animal control and adopt more effective practical solutions.Mr Borsak said...
Gun control lobby must face facts: Firearm theft rate is falling
Posted on 1 February 2012 by Content Manager
Shooters and Fishers Party MLC, the Hon. Robert Borsak said today that firearm theft is decreasing in NSW as the ownership of firearms rises, contrary to the misleading claims of the Greens and the so-called National Coalition for Gun Control.He said...
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...
Beating the police on gun ban
Posted on 23 December 2011 by Content Manager
Here's a win for shooters in WA! it took a lot of legal argument (and money) to overturn a ban that wasn't even legally enforceable.The Shooters and Fishers Party wants to see an end to gun laws that allow interpretation and personal whim of the Poli...
NSW fails on pest control: Time to let hunters help
Posted on 23 December 2011 by Content Manager
State of the Environment reports show how pest control is failing and why it needs the aid of hunters, yet the Shooters and Fishers Party is still fighting against blinkered politics that will not consider a cost-efficient and effective contribution...
Steve Lee's "Life is Good (the Hickok45 Song)"
Posted on 21 December 2011 by Content Manager
Musician and dedicated shooter Steve Lee made his latest video for the song Life Is Good (the Hickok45 Song) while in Nashville a few months back with a good friend, Hickok45, who has his own successful YouTube gun channel. As Steve says, "The song a...
Holland to liberalise hunting laws?
Posted on 20 December 2011 by Content Manager
The Netherlands will decentralise responsibility for wildlife management andopen up hunting opportunities under a new Nature Act its government isattempting to put into action.Henk Bleker, the country's Deputy Minister for Agriculture, has put forwar...
THE SHOOTERS & FISHERS STAG
Posted on 26 September 2011 by Site Admin
A great hunting story from a great supporter of the Shooters and Fishers Party - Kevin Gittings Having handed out how to vote cards all Saturday at this years NSW Election and with the next few days free, I was well and truly ready for a b...
SURVEY - HELP US UNDERSTAND YOUR NEEDS AS A HUNTER
Posted on 7 September 2011 by Site Admin
Please take a minute to complete this online survey. Your answers will help us represent your interests as a hunter.https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/aushuntersurvey
Sapphire Coast/Monaro ADA Branch leads in conservation
Posted on 17 February 2011 by Site Admin
How good is the Sapphire Coast/Monaro branch of the ADA down at Bega?We didn’t realise just how much frontline conservation they do. The branch has a specific Indian Mynah eradication program and has threat abatement programs in place for...