ANYONE who has spent any time outside the city knows feral animals are a huge problem in Queensland. Rabbits, hares, foxes, wild dogs, kangaroos, deer and feral pigs – they are all at plague proportions and a constant threat to our farmer’s livelihoods, eating feed needed by cows, nibbling away on vegetables meant for your dinner table, digging up fences ...

Senator David Leyonjhelm

WILD deer are emerging as a bigger menace than dingoes in Queensland with warnings they may spread deadly foot-and-mouth disease to the billion-dollar beef herd. There are at least 30,000 feral deer in Queensland, with landholders saying those numbers are vastly underestimated. As well as carrying contagious diseases and ticks into tick-free cattle zones, the deer are competing with livestock ...

PUBLIC THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY SELECT COMMITTEE ON FIREARMS LEGISLATION MET AT HENTY HOUSE, LAUNCESTON, ON MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2018 Mr ALISTAIR SHEPHARD, PRESIDENT, SHOOTERS UNION TASMANIA, WAS CALLED, MADE THE STATUTORY DECLARATION AND WAS EXAMINED. CHAIR (Mr Shelton) – Welcome, Alistair. This is a public hearing and is being broadcast through the parliamentary website. I would like to reiterate ...

We received this email from David Leyonhjelm from the Liberal Democrats. Click here to download the Review of the Family Law System Discussion paper. The relevant section is page 39, section 11: Information Sharing Shooters are the subject of very shabby treatment in this country. An interim report by the Australian Law Reform Commission into the family law system has suggested ...

Firearm Prohibition Orders (FPOs) have exploded more than 650 per cent in the past three years but have had little discernible impact on gun offences, analysis of crime data reveals. It comes as the country’s peak anti-gun lobby, Gun Control Australia, fears the orders are being overused for “matters that have nothing to do with firearms”. The draconian laws allow ...

A Victoria Police officer responsible for regulating the state’s security and firearms industries has resigned after allegedly texting photos of his penis to a female security worker, and being charged with unauthorised access to a confidential database. This week’s resignation of leading senior constable Peter Ryan from the police’s licensing and regulation division (LRD) comes as the Australian Federal Police ...

By Shooters Union Tasmania President Alistair Shephard Medics for Gun Control (MGC) has called on the Tasmanian Government to make changes to the state’s gun laws, and the proposed amendments show a distinct lack of understanding when it comes to firearm legislation in Tasmania, and the country. The organisation recommended abolishing the “loophole” that breaches the National Firearms Agreement (NFA), ...

KNIVES have become the number one weapon for murder in Australia, outstripping firearms and the use of sheer physical force. Criminologist Dr Samara McPhedran from Griffith University’s Violence Research and Prevention Program said knives were the most commonly used weapon in homicide cases in Australia. “It would be fair to say knives are now more prevalent,” she said. Dr McPhedran ...

Video Published by The Unshackled: The ABC’s Four Corners program aired an episode last Monday night hyping up a big new power gun lobby in Australia. It portrayed Australian gun owners and sporting shooters desiring to protect their rights as a sinister development which will lead to US style mass shootings. But what is the truth about Australian gun politics ...