For those interested the link below is to an article in the Melbourne Age and the National Times regarding the likely extinction of the OBP written by Debbie Lustig.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/nothing-funny-about-thi s-looming-deadparrot-sketch-20100713-109ic.html
(It’s quite long so if it doesn’t all come through as a link you may need to copy and paste into your browser address field)
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Bob
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Yes, unusually good spelling and grammar for a comments section nutter.
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Has anyone read the comments left by “Phil” at the bottom of the article?
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Yeah good points. Cheers, G
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There is an alternative but similar article in the ‘Hun’ today. It is hard to know weather to feed the beast! OBP comes up in the discussion too.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/furore-over-the-fate-of-a-humble-moth-flies-in-the-face-of-reason/story-e6frfhqf-1225891360278
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No, I wasn’t suggesting that the wind farm at Bald Hills was responsible for the extinction of the OBP. After all, there IS no wind farm at Bald Hills.
I was suggesting that preventing the building of said wind farm had utterly nothing to do with the decline of the OBP, and that the bird was simply a cover for another reason not to build the wind farm.
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Its a bit of a stretch suggesting/implying that the Bald Hills wind-farm brought down the OBP. The negligence of the Victorian and Federal Governments – in turn caused by voters wishes – important in this. Bald Hills is irrelevant to the OBP’s fate.
Hopefully, as you point out, it can be used as an example to shame Governments and ultimately the public to allocate resources to other potential extinctions – wild Gouldian Finches?
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The only thing I can add is that if (or, sadly when) the OBP is declared extinct in the wild, the Victorian and federal governments builds a whopping great wind farm at Bald Hills as a suitable memorial.
Out of this, perhaps, some good will come.
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