Birds as pawns in a plutocrat game
By Birding-Aus, on October 9th, 2013
Like many I am well past any sense of rage at the antics of people such Forrest and Reinhardt and their internecine squabbles over the purloined commonwealth. However this morning’s story in the SMH indicates that greed may be pluming new depths. Apparently the basis of Forrest’s intervention in the theatrical farce that is the Reinhardt family is her opposition to him developing a mine on one of her pastoral properties. In order to tie Forrest up she claimed there were Night Parrots running around there and he had to spend considerable time and tax deductions to disprove the claim. What a shock to most of us. The Gina who would thought happily bulldoze the entire land mass (and I suspect, any conventional sense of democracy) into a Chinese ore carrier for delivery to an Indian nuptial, is actually a closet greenie and all those hopefuls were wasting their time as the parrots were all at her place. Chris – an old commo forced to existentialism by historical circumstance. =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
I thought the most interesting bit was “alleged sightings of endangered night parrots in marshes at Mulga Downs” Perhaps John young would have found it earlier if he had known about this alternate habitat! Roger. —–Original Message—– Sent: Wednesday, 9 October 2013 1:07 PM Like many I am well past any sense of rage at the antics of people such Forrest and Reinhardt and their internecine squabbles over the purloined commonwealth. However this morning’s story in the SMH indicates that greed may be pluming new depths. Apparently the basis of Forrest’s intervention in the theatrical farce that is the Reinhardt family is her opposition to him developing a mine on one of her pastoral properties. In order to tie Forrest up she claimed there were Night Parrots running around there and he had to spend considerable time and tax deductions to disprove the claim. What a shock to most of us. The Gina who would thought happily bulldoze the entire land mass (and I suspect, any conventional sense of democracy) into a Chinese ore carrier for delivery to an Indian nuptial, is actually a closet greenie and all those hopefuls were wasting their time as the parrots were all at her place. Chris – an old commo forced to existentialism by historical circumstance. =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Why not ask Gina for a large donation towards Night Parrot conservation seeing she’s so concerned. At the same time suggest to Mr. Forrest that if Night Parrot research were better funded they might be found elswhere which might help his case! Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow PO Box 71, Darwin River, NT 0841 043 8650 835 On 9/10/13 1:29 PM, “Chris Charles” < licole@ozemail.com.au> wrote: =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
How old do you have to be Chris? Something to look forward to. Chris Sent from my iPhone =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================