How bizarre! John Young, a noted professional photographer, guide and consultant, achieves a mighty feat of wildlife detection after a mammoth unpaid search over many years, and is greeted by snide references to his ruminations on society, his possible profit motive and demands he turn over all his knowledge to Queensland wildlife authorities. My advice, as always, ignore them, John, ignore them. Tony Ashton
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I’ve never understood the obsession of people with the private sector. When you see that private sector organisations can rebadge themselves, shut down, merge, split , go offshore and that no private sector organisation lasts in any stable form for long, you realise that they cannot have long-term goals, and you also realise that only governments can do anything useful in the long term. The Commonwealth of Australia is going to be around for the long term (I wish the states weren’t going to be, but that’s another debate), but the private sector will blow about according to economic trends, and its goals are simply to make money (largely by selling people people stuff they don’t need). I hope that pretty soon we’re going to see an end to this tiresome anti-government ideology and actually have governments properly funding services such as nature conservation. John Leonard On 25 February 2015 at 07:06, Dave Torr < davidtorr@gmail.com> wrote: — John Leonard Canberra Australia http://www.jleonard.net I want to be with the 9,999 other things.
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Quite agree Tony. We can of course totally trust our states to conserve wildlife – I don’t think! If the poor bird was in Victoria they would probably want to burn is habitat! As for John – he has spent huge amount of time and money finding this bird good luck to him – I will certainly pay to go and see the bird if he ever runs tours there! On 24 February 2015 at 19:10, Tony Ashton < tonyashton0@gmail.com> wrote:
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