Max Davine's Blog - Posts Tagged "protection"
Sharking in Perth
For those of you who don't know, the state government in Western Australia has approved a baiting and culling of Great White Sharks along the coastline. You see, a couple of people got attacked. The issue is, first of all, killing a couple thousand sharks isn't going to do a damn thing, they have the whole ocean and every now and then, tragic as it is, someone's going to get attacked, just like people will crash their cars and stick their hands in the toaster. The other issue is; killing protected animals is against the law. So we now have a government, in Australia, which is okay with breaking the law. When a government breaks it's own laws, it places itself above them, and politicians therefore exempt from any moral or ethical rules. Will we stand for this? I implore the whole world; helps us good Australians, there are some of us left.
Culling sharks is the worst idea in a truly appalling catalogue of bad ideas had by the Australian government. Around the world we are already seen as cruel, stupid, racist, ignorant and arrogant, do we really need to be seen as barbaric as well? We still serve shark fins in our restaurants, and now this policy. It's not only unethical, it's illegal, and whether you give a damn about sharks or not, when a government starts breaking it's own laws it's a sign of things to come. One day they will break a law that does affect you. They have shown brazen disregard for what the people want and need in every aspect of their governance, from who we marry to who actually leads us (we vote one person in, they get fired and replaced with someone else.) Somehow we have to stop this avalanche of casual disregard for the Australian people, we have to show them when they've overstepped that threshold of what we will not allow anymore. I hope this can be it.
For all those people oversees, I find myself more and more obliged to apologize for the actions of my own countryfolk. I have seldom been more ashamed to call myself an Australian.
Culling sharks is the worst idea in a truly appalling catalogue of bad ideas had by the Australian government. Around the world we are already seen as cruel, stupid, racist, ignorant and arrogant, do we really need to be seen as barbaric as well? We still serve shark fins in our restaurants, and now this policy. It's not only unethical, it's illegal, and whether you give a damn about sharks or not, when a government starts breaking it's own laws it's a sign of things to come. One day they will break a law that does affect you. They have shown brazen disregard for what the people want and need in every aspect of their governance, from who we marry to who actually leads us (we vote one person in, they get fired and replaced with someone else.) Somehow we have to stop this avalanche of casual disregard for the Australian people, we have to show them when they've overstepped that threshold of what we will not allow anymore. I hope this can be it.
For all those people oversees, I find myself more and more obliged to apologize for the actions of my own countryfolk. I have seldom been more ashamed to call myself an Australian.
