It appears NSW 2
Bob Government stitched up a deal with the ACT on the 2003 inferno that blew
out of the NSW over grown chronically neglected dog infested national park by compensating with NSW
irrigators water redirected to Canberra because the Cotter was incinerated as
never before possible by being locked up since 1911 denied grazing and
traditional cool fire. Lightening strikes on the 8.1.03 were not jumped on by
the new management replacing ACT Forest made redundant in 2001 taking with them 500
years of local fire fighting experience including knowledge of dry summer storm
behaviour.
Ginini bogs were
burnt in 2003 for the first time in living memory the headwaters of Bendora dam
the major infrastructure prefires providing 85% of Canberra Queanbeyan domestic
water. A storm post fires in February 2003 mobilised millions of tonnes of soot
and sediment off severely incinerated land called catchment. Silt curtains
proved inadequate to protect the water quality of Bendora dam forced to be
abandoned and Canberra plunged into water restrictions pegged to the
treatment capacity of Googong plant 160Ml a day.
Cotter had long
since been without water treatment facilities abandoned in lieu of “catchment management.” Dingo enforced the no graze policies, fire
suppression enforced by fire towers, legislation bullying and standover tactics
on smoke nuisance, layers and layers of gadgetry and indoctrination from blow
in academics from London, Adelaide, tropical Queensland, irrigation farms in
the MIA among other places equally appropriate to understand the Australian
climate and volatile vegetation at its best. Cotter locked up to drown in its
own refuse. unbeknown Canberra people were drinking and bathing in gum
leaf compost tea. Wildflowers were long buried in the soil con mountains of
mulch. Wildflowers were stashed as specimens in the museum.
Killer dingo were
encouraged to butcher kangaroo, wallaby, koala, echidna and wildlife generally
mustered out onto neighbouring farm land or exterminated. Experts are even keen
packs of dingo are harboured so they can run down the last big buck kangaroo
and the Brumbies. In the Cotter Brumbies were shot to for making fire breaks as
they have done effectively for over 100 years, around Ginini bogs among others
to save on treatment costs. Shot Brumbies too were to give the packs of dogs a
taste of horse meat, encouraging them to butcher foals and horses mired in
snow. Dingo, the wilderness tool to dehabit the water catchment and save on
water treatment costs, enhance water sales profits, shareholder dividends, and
executive packages.
The general public
were locked out of their public land and sent off into the Brindies to rip up
with gay abandon NSW power line roads, fire access tracks and closed down stock
routes once used to provide drought aid and fire mitigation grazing of breeding
stock to maintain food security, enhance biodiversity and water security. Chop
up fences and run over, vandalise private land treated with contempt incited by
decades of government and academic reports denigrating farm communities
portrayed as the environmental enemy. Blow in boffins denying rabbits were
dumped in Australia for the European fashion fur industry and plagued across
the southern part of the continent “over grazing” 1860-1960+. Sheep
blamed to maintain funding to deal with rabbits, fenced, grubbed out, trapped,
poisoned for decades to mitigate over grazing impact including over the
mountains Canberra’s water supply, present and future.
So it was Canberra
Sydney Melbourne based boffins were instrumental in destocking the high country
of its greatest assets. Local multicultural communities restoring big animal
activity to the ecology, retaining traditional strategic cool fire regimes and
removing dingo so wildlife populations could recover and help manage the
vegetation to produce the reliable and abundant flows of sweet clean water.
Water engineers wanted all that for themselves and a simple treatment free
existence siphoning nectar from the Bendora dam and billing the paying public
for chlorination at the environments expense while ever past management
legacies would last.
The 2003 inferno is
still a mystery to many caged raised suburban residents trusting in what they
are told via media spin. Climate change not management change delivered the
worst fire in history they are convinced. The bushfire coroner was not allowed
to investigate fuel loads or government policies of mismanaging public land.
Conflicts of interest selling cheap water at the environments expense. Attorney
General over coroners also being the minister for environment having some
obvious issues of conflicting interest. Public sector wanting cheap water off ‘do
nothing wilderness’ for the sake of clandestine lobby group membership
bushwalking clubs and environmental activists loving a smoke free cow poo free
exclusive Brindi wilderness. Lucky the koala lingered for 2-3 years after being
the sole survivor of the holocaust. More koala were brought in from Kangaroo
island and the bonfire rebuilt for the future around the tourist facility come
zoo with penned wildlife, including ‘fly in fly out, takeaway frogs.’
Wreckreating in the
Brindies resumed including fishing at Tantangarra the new water supply for
Canberra where 40Gl of irrigators water is to be put through Canberra’s water
supply before sent, with additions of lotions, potions and love down the
Murrumbidgee with environmental flows to dilute the salts and mystery
substances because Canberra saves on water treatment costs both up stream and
down stream leading the nation by example into the sustainable future.
There has been a
recent report of a black dingo adapting to the tourist industry in the Brindies
and high country. It has been seen routinely chasing cars along the foreshores
of Tantangarra dam and when the occupants of the vehicles see it off it moves
back a respectful distance to watch the tent building, camp preparations,
bringing of food and eskies, high class picnic fair, launching of the boat,
fishermen heading off for the day as the dingo sets about relieving them of
their supplies.
How could this be?
The message has been put out “do not feed the wildlife.” So what do you do if
the dingo are left and the wildlife have been eaten. Share someone else’s
picnic. Lamb chops, steak, sausages in tune with what to expect wandering onto
nearby farm land.
During the week the
black dog can chase Brumbies through rabbit warrens and hope to break a leg
perhaps if the angry tourists ‘hard hoof haters’ have not been incited to chase
the Brumbies and break a leg before the park closes for the winter when the
shooting and trapping start again vilifying our heritage horses setting about
securing the regions vegetation and water supplies without help because the
wildlife are gone the stockmen have been bullied and banished. Boffins in
Canberra enjoy cheap water cheap food generous public research funding and paid
holidays in the high country monitoring Brumby impact and fire recovery of the
alpine bogs under shade cloth, rice straw, sphagnum transplants off the grazed
green Brumby runs defying the effects climate change on Upper Murray
catchments.
Shot to rot
Brumbies trapped and not able to be shipped out because of heavy snow. This
shot to rot activity giving the dogs a taste for horse meat for when they
wander out onto farm land to butcher foals and children’s ponies, mixed in with
sheep, calves, cattle down on their luck chased about and fatigued. Farmers portrayed
really as bad managers unviable in fact. They should sell their land to the
water tourism empire. Kyoto plantations perhaps as degraded agricultural land. Shops
and cafés feed, clothe, water, house the people, rural Australians just ruin a
good wilderness tourist destination. Reports to Ministers indicating farmers
land would be far more profitable under rate exempt plantation timber
production and dedicated dingo habitat!
Black dogs stalk
Australian’s in their public land in many ways.
