RFI: Binocular vendors in Melbourne or Adelaide

On 20/03/2017 1:53 PM, Martin Butterfield wrote: > Do any member so of the list have recommendations for binocular suppliers > in Melbourne or Adelaide? Some Canberra friends need to get some good bins > for a trip overseas and will be visiting those cities before departure. > > The west side of Elizabeth St . . . → Read More: RFI: Binocular vendors in Melbourne or Adelaide

RFI: Binocular vendors in Melbourne or Adelaide

Do any member so of the list have recommendations for binocular suppliers in Melbourne or Adelaide? Some Canberra friends need to get some good bins for a trip overseas and will be visiting those cities before departure.

Martin Butterfield franmart.blogspot.com.au/

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Duck shooting in Victoria

Is it just possible, sadly, that people who enjoy slaughtering ducks and other fowl, also vote? Maybe the majority of voters in marginal seats are in that group, or even those who don’t really care about ducks but just object to government making rules that say you can’t do whatever…. Are we right to think . . . → Read More: Duck shooting in Victoria

Duck shooting in Victoria

It is allowed because no one brings enough pressure to bear on marginal seats. Nothing concentrates the mind of a politician than the thought of the loss of his or her seat. David Robertson

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Victoria’s duck shooting- why?

There would be few people subscribing to this service who would have much truck with duck shooting or any other shooting of native animals for that matter. What interests me is why an otherwise relatively progressive government backs a such a pursuit in the first place. The cohort involved would seem, at face value, to . . . → Read More: Victoria’s duck shooting- why?

Population changes & fox control

Having Bill’s query re. short-tailed shearwater responses to fox control, I thought this paper on the effect of fox control on pelicans might be of interest to the group: www.publish.csiro.au/WR/WR15207. A PDF of the full paper can be downloaded from: samuseum-sa.academia.edu/GregJohnston

Cheers

Greg Johnston

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