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OT - cattle grazing in the alps 18-Jan-2011 At 11:43:52 AM evanbb

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On 18/01/2011 kieranl wrote:
>Evan, you obviously don't understand the context.
>This is purely a political decision to appease a few mates in the National
>Party, flying in the face of the existing scientific evidence..
>The campaign that the mountain cattlemen have run has been quite disgraceful,
>essentially denying the existing science and slandering the scientists.
>The only hope is that the Federal government will put a stop to this program
>as they have jurisdiction over National Heritage areas.

Oh Kieran, I agree with everything you say, and yes, that shits me. But, beyond that is the political weakness of trying to pull the wool over our collective eyes by calling it 'research', allowing cattle in the NP, and yet still having the hide to call it a NP, even though this would not be allowed in any other park in the country.

I've heard the Nationals described as 'The party of pork-barrelling, the mob behind the Regional Partnerships rorts, a pack of hicks who are less a party than an elected conspiracy to defraud the Commonwealth, probably can’t understand the notion of a scheme that isn’t designed to deliver cash to their mates.'

And I tend to agree.