No pride in slaughter of national symbol
There’s nothing to celebrate on Australia Day while our national emblem remains the victim of the largest wildlife slaughter in the world and our national university slaughters thousands of kangaroos and their babies on university grounds.
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Documents obtained under Freedom Of Information revealed the Australian National University shot and killed 1300 eastern grey kangaroos and joeys at their Kioloa campus in NSW since 2007, including 65 in 2016.
Internal records provided under FOI reveal that the Australian National University killed 560 eastern grey kangaroos and their young in 2007 and another 300 in 2009.
It then applied to the NSW Department of Environment to kill another 600 in 2016 but was denied the application and issued a permit for another 65.
However as only the number of adult kangaroos killed were recorded, effectively excluding the dependent joeys who died, the estimated grand total of kangaroos and joeys killed and orphaned by ANU at Kioloa since 2007 is at least 1300.
It is important for the general public to understand that large scale kangaroo “culls” can never be humane.
Kangaroos are intelligent and affectionate animals with complex social structures and strong family bonds.
These large scale slaughters terrorise the mob for hours, night after night.
It destroys the integrity of the mob structure and leaves dependent at foot joeys orphaned and alone to die from exposure, predation, stress and starvation.
Pouch joeys are ripped from their dead mother's pouch, and as they wriggle and cry out, are swung by their feet and bludgeoned to death in the same violent way baby harp seals are killed by the fur industry.
This is not a practice our national university should be proud of.
N. Sutterby, Australian Society for Kangaroos
Sea alarm unfounded
So we get a few newbies/greenies elected to our council and they figure they can rewrite the science on the levels that the sea has risen and can be expected to rise.
Fort Denison has a sea level record that now goes back 130 years. The average rise for those years has been 65 one hundredths of a millimetre per year with the rate of rise decreasing over the last 50 years. That mirrors what has been recorded globally. The expected sea level total rise by 2030 is therefore 8.5mm. I am somewhat amused by our council even thinking that the sea will rise 100mm in the same time frame.
Your front page story reported that Eurobodalla Council expects the sea to rise by 980mm by 2030. It would appear that is based on a 2010 decision of that council to implement policy based on extreme modeling by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The council then put in place such draconian policies that the value of seaside property was destroyed and as its rates income was based on land valuations they had to beg the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Panel to make up the revenue shortfall they had created themselves by raising everyone's rates by an excessive amount.
Well that council got booted out at the last election. As friends who live in Eurobodalla have told me that council was simply too dumb or maybe ideology-driven to get re-elected.
As for your report of Kiama Council’s belief that the sea level will rise by 900mm by 2030 can I suggest that we dodged a bullet when the NSW government called off the proposed merger with Kiama. Their objections to an amalgamation with Shoalhaven came across to me as pure elitism; the spokespersons who appeared on television made it very clear they did not want to be associated with “those people” in the Shoalhaven. Now they can be happy and insular basking in the 900mm sea rise that only greenies and other climate change extremists believe in.