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[Michaelangelica]

The Duck Stops Here*-*Birds Australia


Tasmania kicks off duck hunting
Tasmania kicks off duck hunting | smh.com.au


I think three states have started killing. (Vic & SA0 I don't understand this. They would have to be as tasty as a boiled brick. I guess they use shotguns; where is the skill in that?
We have half a million feral camels out there to shoot, and use to feed ,the feral cats, dogs and pigs with. feral deer in national parks would give you abetter feed, but you would need hunting skills for that.
SA
Duck hunt on again - ABC Riverland SA (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)


i just received this in the mail. I signed apetetion. Elections must be coming, you usually don't get answers.

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19 March 2009
Mr Michael Angel

Dear Mr Angel,
DECLARATION OF 2009 DUCK SEASON
Thank you for your correspondence regarding the government’s decision to declare a
2009 duck season for Victoria. Your correspondence has been forwarded to me for reply.
The sustainable use of wildlife in Victoria, including duck hunting, is provided for under the
Wildlife Act 1975 and government policy supports duck hunting on this basis.
After considering advice from the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE),
the Victorian Hunting Advisory Committee and other stakeholders, the Minister for
Environment and Climate Change on 4 February 2009, announced a significantly
restricted duck season for this year.
These restrictions apply to season length, bag limit and species harvested, ensuring that
duck numbers remain sustainable into the future.
Other ongoing strategies adopted by DSE to ensure that no species is put at risk include a
requirement for all duck hunters to pass the Waterfowl Identification Test as a measure of
their ability to identify waterbird species before being allowed to hunt ducks in Victoria.
Under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986, a Code of Practice is in place to
prevent cruelty to game species and protect the welfare of other animals where hunting
occurs. Hunters who operate outside this Code may be prosecuted.
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DSE will continue to manage duck hunting on the best environmental data available and
will work closely with community groups to ensure that duck hunting is conducted in a
safe, responsible and sustainable manner.
Thank you for your interest in this matter.
Yours sincerely
Kimberley Dripps
Executive Director
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

[Eclipse Now]

"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."
~Orson Scott Card

Partial to a bit of the Card are you? I liked his blog entries on living in New Urbanism. I reckon we could do with a few less suburbs, and a few more areas like "Glebe" with townhouses, trams, renewable energy nearby... maybe less crime because there is more emphasis on local community, etc.

[Michaelangelica]

Never heard of him before Eclipse. But now I will look him up, thanks

Dictionary Wit
Macquarie Dictionary
E.G.s

February 2008

Ms Nardia Duncan
boomerang
a phone call from a baby boomer
January 2008

Mr Nicoll Joshua Pataan
subwoofer
a dog breed that has the ability to 'woof' under water
December 2007

Mr Robert Myers
subordinate clause
Santa's helper

Dear Mac Apple,
I have had your Computers since the Mac +
How about giving us 20+ million Ozzies a go?
If there was a Californian Dictionary -you WOULD use it or Arnie would come back!

Unlike USA dictionaries at least the Australian spellchecker has Obama in it !!

[Eclipse Now]

Orson Scott Card is a sci-fi author who wrote one of my favourite books of all time, "Ender's Game." I read it in one sitting. A mate a church also read it in one sitting, and so we became best mates.

It's like a grown up version of Harry Potter, only in space "battle school". And it's dark. Unlike Harry Potter, it is a short read... more like the first Harry Potter book. It's a complete read on it's own right, and resolves nicely. However, there is a whole spin-off series that follows other threads of the story if you become interested.

Now he's a fairly right-wing blogger, but even he makes sense with recommendations for peak oil and New Urbanism.

But my friend has forgotten his history (or, knowing America's educational system, he never knew it). Towns all start bunched up. Even tiny villages bunch up -- for protection, so you know who belongs and who doesn't. The spreading only began with the car....

But my plan would require the developer to build the grocery store into the plan for the village he's building right from the start. The streets would all connect; no cul-de-sacs. There would be sidewalks everywhere, and retail close at hand. It would be a neighborhood from the moment you move in.

Right now, the reason we build in distant, isolated neighborhoods is because they are undesirable and therefore easier to afford. If they were desirable, then that is the land that would be in the most demand, and therefore it would be the most expensive.

Civilization Watch - May 6, 2007 - Oil -- Past the Peak - The Ornery American

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Eclipse Now

Orson Scott Card is a sci-fi author who wrote one of my favourite books of all time, "Ender's Game." I read it in one sitting. A mate a church also read it in one sitting, and so we became best mates.
Civilization Watch - May 6, 2007 - Oil -- Past the Peak - The Ornery American

very interesting thanks
I love E Doc Smith! and Ursula la Guin and Fred Hoyle, Niven & adolescent good fantasy (The Dark is Rising series the Owl Service -less sex sin and sadism). A friend who reads every Sci fi book despairs of me liking EDS.
Of late I have avoided all sci fi as I found it cruel, and depressing. I like fantasy but fortunately i have my daughter who reads everyting, then, letting me know what i can read. Just read a fun one(series) about a rich, teenage detective in fairyland - called ???
At the moment i have just started Terry Pratchett's "Nation" . I have been waiting two years to be given it as a present finally i ordered it in from the Library! TP is my favourite author. After Nation,I will look up your recommendations. There were some recommendations on What are you reading thread too, that I must follow up.

I don't know why I find this funny, but I do, and thought i would like to share it.

[Eclipse Now]

Ha ha ha!
Speaking of Niven, did you ever read "Mote in God's eye" about the "Moties", our first contact with an alien civilisation? Or Ringworld? Or Lucifer's Hammer (a Deep Impact scenario) or "Footfall" (alien invasion)? All great novels, just great.

Was not so sure about their combined efforts on Burning city... it took a while to get going, and was quite savage and primitive and raw and ... depressing.

What!?? They've written a sequel to one of my favourites!
The Legacy of Heorot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beowulf's Children - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Burning City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Michaelangelica]

I just thought OSC's quote was apt for the times
I will look him up though thanks for the TU

If this wasn't so tragic it would be funny :-(

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Thirsty camels 'turning the taps on' in central Australia

Posted Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:00am AEDT
Updated Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:01pm AEDT


* Map: Alice Springs 0870

Camels are coming into communities in central Australia and turning on the taps, the Macdonnell Shire Council says.

The shire has applied to the Federal Government for a $4.5 million slice of infrastructure funding to build camel-proof boundaries around 14 communities.

Thirsty camels 'turning the taps on' in central Australia - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

We are estimated to produce 80,000 new camels this year (More camels than cars?)
We also have a Super Sale on the other 500,000.
They are free (really!) you just have to catch your own

The Arab world can't run out of oil fast enough. Ozzies will be ready for the "Camel-led-economic-recovery".

Camels are said to be turning on the taps in communities in central Australia. [File image].

[Eclipse Now]

We need a "camel-burger" industry!?

Now, if the techno-utopian "Singularity geeks" are right, maybe in a decade or 2 we'll have a Polywell fusion-powered "Superman ecobot" that can not only round up all those pesky camels, but slaughter them, fly their carcasses to Africa, cook them up and serve camel stew. Or perhaps they'll be lighter than air nano-bots that just dissolve the Camels into fertiliser? (As portrayed in "The Day the earth stood still").

Sadly, with cats & dogs & cane toads & camels & foxes & feral pigs, I can only see Australia leading the world in this planets 6th great extinction event.

[Michaelangelica]

And australians didn't think of these because . . .?

Solar cooker wins climate change challenge
Solar cooker wins climate change challenge | Forum For The Future

This is one that has been on sale for years, a bit more high tech perhaps but i would like my food heated to more than 80C
Solar Power Solar Cooker Sun Oven- the worlds best Solar Cooker in Australia

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Loughborough University, UK

Loughborough University has produced ceiling tiles that can cool rooms with minimal energy use.

Instead of pumping cool air into a room, a false ceiling uses convection to draw warm exhaust air from the room. The air evaporates water held in a wick surface in the tiles, and the tiles cool instantly. Moreover, they don’t clog and the materials don’t degrade, so there are no significant maintenance costs.

The finalists | Forum For The Future

[Michaelangelica]

Two reasons for posting this
1. an interesting site to explore especially if you 4WD or campintents
and
2 A gift idea for your favourite New zealand or Pommie relative who keeps threatening to visit or maybe just an insect-a-phobe

Books & Posters Poster Australian Insects A2
Even better they have one of snakes and spiders too!!
happy days!

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