Paper Petition

The petition of residents of Queensland draws to the attention of the House the failure to follow due process in banning traditional duck and quail hunting, resulting in: - Conservation being abandoned in favour of satisfying animal rights and welfare activists; - A precedent for ignoring due process - Those conspiring to mislead Government being rewarded rather than punished - Traditional rights of citizens being removed unjustly

Your petitioners therefore request the House to: a) Overturn the decision of the Minister of Environment to ban traditional duck and quail hunting; b) Recognise the inherent dangers of any Government process being hijacked by extremists c) Guarantee that the "Smart State's " wildlife management will be based on world's best scientific practice. d) Launch an immediate and transparent inquiry into the process involved to investigate whether the Minister was adequately informed about: - The lack of scientific credibility of the deceptive information relied on by the AWAC in assessing wounding rates; - The need for appropriate stakeholder consultation - The dangers of ignoring ecological consequences - Why the Duck and Quail Management Advisory Committee (D&QMAC), the Government's advisory body was neither consulted nor informed; - The illusion of public support for the ban created through the animal rights activists "form letter" campaign. - The contrived nature of the campaign to progressively ban all reacreational hunting and fishing in Queensland.