Townsville Bureau
The Brisbane-centric LNP is spinning it Claytons crocodile regulations which simply remove a croc from someone’s backyard and let it go in another front yard causing more casualties.
The state government claim that they have made rivers and creeks safer by removing a handful of crocs is just media spin from entrenched Labor bureaucrats.
Last week man was mauled by a crocodile at Ingham, the Premier’s home town but the LNP answer is to try and catch it then give it to one of only a few crococile farms which don’t want it.
Crocs over 1.5 meters in length have no commercial value say croc farmers and they are full to capacity in any case and do not want any more from the wild.
Farmers claim most crocs caught by the EPA are usually shot but not publicly admitted. KAP says just shoot the bigger ones in our waterways. It is far less costly in terms of transport, manpower and injuries and the Minister would not have to tell any more lies.
Like Labor the LNP is held to ransom by a half a dozen members of the crazy crocodile protection mob which wants to leave maneaters in the suburbs of North Queensland.
Katters Australian Party has legislation on the table ready to go which would deal with the extraordinary explosion of numbers after a succession of big wet seasons.
The LNP has done everything it can to prevent this Safer Waterways bill from being debated in Parliament. Our information is that most property owners in any case have been dealing with the problem without any government help.
