Wildlife culling needed
Foxes, deer, kangaroos, wombats, flying foxes etc are out of control.
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No doubt some will say “how dare you say we need to cull them”. But that is exactly what needs to happen.
If a land holder doesn’t cull his domestic stock they will destroy our land, which is exactly what the wildlife are doing.
Don’t you know what the rabbits did in the 1930s to the 1960s? Wombats are 100 times worse.
Can’t you see your creeks and rivers falling in at the sides and washing away? Have a look at the sand that washes in. Wombats do that.
Did you know that wombats have only been in the Valley since the late 1980s?
I would need millions of dollars to put my place back to what it was like before they arrived.
A couple of weeks ago I rang the National Parks office and asked them “if I had 100 kangaroos on my farm how many tags could I have?” They answered 50.
I then asked the same question about wombats and got an answer of three.
Are you serious? Stock are dying in wombat burrows.
If you are happy enough to cull the brumbies, why not wombats too? Come on, fair go, all the aforementioned animals need culling.
Please don’t use the word “extinct” when it comes to the topic of culling.
There’s millions out there so a little bit of culling won’t make a huge impact.
As for Potoroo Palace saying “put openings in fences for wombats to use” they still make new holes.
Wombats aren’t going to wander up and down a fence line looking for a hole to go through.
They’re just going to dig one when and where they want to.
On my own property we have just spent $30,000 on a brand new fox proof fence to protect my ewes and lambs during lambing season.
Wombats have already dug holes under these fences allowing access for the foxes to attack the lambs and lambing ewes.
If people are culling the wildlife, I applaud them, for they are the true conservationists.
Noel Watson, Bega
Grateful for care
May I add my congratulations, thanks and best wishes to Dr Robert Hartemink on his retirement.
Like so many of his patients over the past 30 years, I have had several relatively minor and/or major surgeries performed by “Doctor Magic” as an old friend used to call him, and was always grateful for his caring and prompt attention to my health problems.
He will be missed, but it is good to see that his place is going to be taken so quickly by another specialist general surgeon.
We are pleased to welcome Dr Van Gangelen to our community and pray that we are able to keep him here for a long time – it is so important for country people to develop a good relationship with their doctors.
However, it is disturbing to read that our wonderful new hospital facility that we have all wanted for so long, may be the very reason we are likely to lose the services of visiting and resident specialists.
Simply by being re-classified as “regional” rather than “rural” because of the extra beds we have attained, our specialists face a 30 per cent pay cut.
I have always felt this country has a very fair health system compared to other countries – many of which are envious of our Medicare.
If Medicare is becoming unsustainable due to the demands being made upon it, surely it is time to reconsider the idea of a small co-payment for services, rather than punish the professionals who deliver them to us.
After all, who among us would prefer to travel to Canberra or Sydney rather than receive them here?