Rescuers will be on the Kerang wetlands in north west Victoria
Laurie Levy, Campaign Director, today said: "The late 1950s Liberal Premier Sir Henry Bolte would today be proud of Victoria's Left-leaning Labor Premier Jacinta Allan who will again have the blood of some 300,000 native waterbirds on her hands".
"Allowing a duck shooting season to proceed following Victoria's bushfires that took a terrible toll of Victoria's native wildlife, Premier Allan has again bowed to the wishes of a dwindling number of duck shooters, who make up less than 0.2 per cent of all Victorians and her two powerful Union bosses at the CFMEU and Electrical Trades Union.
"To protect native waterbirds it is imperative that Premier Allan lose her Bendigo East seat in Parliament at this year's November election.
"For the last 40 years rescuers have risked their lives exposing the terrible suffering of native waterbirds and the continued illegal shooting of protected and threatened species. However, a change in public opinion has seen duck shooter numbers dwindle from 100,000 in 1986 to less than 0.2 per cent of Victoria's population today.
"In 2023 we won the Victorian Government's Parliamentary Inquiry into the recreational shooting of native waterbirds, but Premier Allan completely ignored and disregarded the findings of her own Inquiry."
"The only way native waterbirds can be protected is for Jacinta Allan to lose her Bendigo East seat in Parliament.
