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A few things.- We unfortunately have what is a PC-driven, legislatively enshrined and effectively racist construct here. Yes, the case was facilitated by the ethnicity of the defendants.- Anyone on this forum residing in Adelaide metro and interested in atavistically-driven outdoor pastimes has no more and no less "connection with the land" than someone who happens to be of aboriginal descent also residing Adelaide metro.- I have no more nor less "need" for self-procured personal consumption than any other metro resident, irrespective of ethnicity.Sadly, we as a society have generated a "too b

KnackersThank you for your posts. I suspect there may be a lot of stuff tucked away in ILUAs to that effect.silaflexJust from a wiki extract, but have read this elsewhere in recent times.Judge Merkel in 1998 defined Aboriginal descent as technical rather than real – thereby eliminating a genetic requirement. This decision established that anyone can classify him or herself legally as an Aboriginal, provided he or she is accepted as such by his or her community.Not necessarily the whole story apparently, depending on the subject matter...The bottom line for me though is - I read of the $400K

And it gets better - you know those Sanctuary Zones coming in October next year?Only for white fella of course......from "Activities and Uses in Marine Park Zones"Exemptions- The Minister responsible for marine parks may provide a permit for any activity to take place that would not ordinarily be allowed in a specific zone in accordance with section 19 of the Marine Parks Act 2007.- The Regulations will also provide an exemption for any person acting in the course of an emergency. - The Regulations will not apply to a person exercising official powers or functions under a State or Commonwealth

Squid Flaps Hell, as long as you don`t put a line in the water, looking at this outcome you guys would probably be able to come back with as many as you want?And size is obviously redundant too...just make sure he has the requisite cultural area connections.Easy as. .

From a couple of years backhttp://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/aboriginal-fishermen-in-mabo-court-battle/story-e6frea6u-1226167524436"Owen John Karpany, 59, of Kapunda, and son Daniel Thomas Karpany, 24, of Parafield Gardens, who belong to the Narrunga people..." :whistle:

So...what message does this send to any like-minded people of the same background?http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-06/native-title-abalone-owen-daniel-karpany-undersize/5072466?section=sa $400K of taxpayer money being put to great use there too... :vomit:

Spider crabs?

NTTThe rules were adjusted late 2012 to cater for exactly that sort of thing while still making it very difficult to hook (and stay hooked up!) to a big toothie. If the hook measures up okay and the mono diameter is less than 1mm - no probs.60lb should be well under a mil...

Seal numbers increasing metro - summer coming on - increased shark presence (little sharks and big sharks) - big sharks go yum-yum on seals - lots of people in the water...What could possibly go wrong? :evil: But seriously - what to do, realistically? :whistle:

Reeve Hmmm...a few years ago at Hallett Cove was fishing next to a group of...a certain "demographic"...who were filling a large department store bag (could have been two) with mussels obtained through sitting waist deep in water and casually feeling around. :whistle:

Archerfish - dunno where he caught it (bastard, our only ones have been the one and only time we`ve been to D`Entrecasteaux...and the biggest was three quarters of what`s in the photo!) but I could show you on Google Earth to within a metre of where the photo was taken. Does that help at all? Knackers - you utter, utter, utter sod! All those hours over the last few years spent trolling around the point, and whilst travelling from A to B - surface lures, divers...one hook-up (and immediate bust off) on something huge near the point being the score in the immediate environs to date...grrrr...B

chuckembackAm I thinking what you`re thinking...in terms of karma...regarding his tie-ins with the Valentine`s Day [shark tackle restrictions] Massacre?

Further to the Nielsen poll above - just found this on a blogsite, someone having run the figures through an online election calculator and came up with this gem.It`s all about the preferences...remember how Fielding scored a senate seat for Family First with 1.9% of the primary vote?The Queensland Nielsen poll is extremely interesting, given the results for the Senate. The results of the poll were: ALP 31% LNP 45% GRN 8% PUP 8% KAP 4% OTH 4%I put those figures through Antony Green’s ”Senate Calculator” below. The results were amazing. There are 3 ALP senators and 3 LNP senators up for r

TB Sigh. $40 Billion going on $80 Billion to have 97% of households being able to download a movie in three minutes...Ssshhh....don`t mention that Turnbull`s FTTN at 10-20 Mbps is the standard deal for Conroy`s FTTH - unless you are prepared to pay quite a few more bucks for 80-100Mbps "available" on the latter..."The best lies are based on half-truths"

Ugly I know someone who was associated with the SA Greens on a professional (not ideological) basis - their SHY appraisal was ..."she`s not real bright"...

Eek. have a look at this (admittedly Bananabender-specific) polling.Palmer and the Greens have hopped into bed with cross-preferencing for tactical reasons, to give both LNP and Labor the big finger - BTW Comrade Milne says he`s no worse than the two majors in terms of pro-coal but their parties have a supposed commonality on asylum seekers, thus no reason for the Greens not to preference Palmer...convenient excuse.Both parties pandering of course to the LCD voters who would like "free stuff that Mr Nobody will pay for".Check out the Greens and PUP. After preference transfers, there`s gotta be

ausea, you said Now, having logged on, I saw 45 members and 2462 guests online.My average observation seems to be about 30-60 members and 900-1200 guests.I am intrigued as to what may have been driving the assertions you make in both sentences... PS Dell laptop - Vista - Mozilla browser - no probs.

I have found Platypus Platinum good - but Kokoda GTR Ultra better still.

I would like to think you nailed it right there JJ - if you haven`t, the world has just turned into a very insane place!

I`m a little confused here - is Dean Logan`s contention based on the argument that because videoing from a kayak is not actually defined as not being a commercial activity, then it could be by inference construed to actually be considered as such?Assuming I have the right references and documents...From the Act; 7 Definition of domestic commercial vessel (1) In this Law:domestic commercial vessel means a vessel that is for use in connection with a commercial, governmental or research activity.(2) The use of a vessel in connection with an activity that is not a commercial, governmental or resea

bent87 You did mean "night time hours" I presume, if referring to the metro shark fishing tackle restrictions? Probably an irrelevant consideration, because there is actually nothing to stop you from fishing metro LB for shark during the day anyway - as long as you use nothing bigger than an 8/0 and mono trace no thicker than 1mm...although you would be guaranteed a hard time regardless, I suspect, given the political drivers for the introduction of those particular regulations...That aside, an extract from the fishing regs to ponder - note it refers to Berley not Bait;23—Berleying(1) A per

Also from the linkThese aquatic reserves allow fish such as King George whiting, yellow fin whiting, blue swimmer crabs and western king prawns to mature and breed within a relatively undisturbed area.They have obviously assessed BSC as being okay to rake for, anything else to be left alone given the aquatic reserve considerations.Line fishing from both sides is I suspect merely an enforcement/administrative simplification, as anything away from the breakwater is still under reserve protection from extractive effort.

"from the breakwater" - sounds pretty darn specific."when tide conditions are suitable" - meaning when tide conditions aren`t suitable...one obviously can`t fish from the breakwater. Reinforces the first bit.From the linkProhibited ActivitiesBait digging, fishing (other than land-based line fishing from the breakwater) and collecting or removing any marine organism (other than blue swimmer crabs) is not permitted.

WisdomJust to clarify - are you talking about the Australian Sealions or the NZ Fur Seals?The former are supposedly under population stress whilst the latter are the ones which seem to be breeding like rabbits - which is why DEWNR/greenies used that little sealion lever as an extra bit of ammo at every opportunity.Mind you, having said that, it was always a pretty tenuous argument for DEWNR to allege that no Recfishing in SZs would be of benefit to the sealions - Recs don`t use gillnets, I have never personally heard over the last decade of a Rec hooking a sealion or pulling one up in a lobste

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/41664/0Listing recommendation — Populations of the New Zealand Fur Seal are presently increasing, and there is no evidence for sustained declines in any parts of their range. The breeding range of the species is still expanding in both New Zealand and Australia. Although the species is subject to by-catch in commercial fisheries in both New Zealand and Australia, these levels, at present do not appear to be inhibiting broad scale population recovery. The species should be categorized as Least Concern.But from October 2014 I won`t be able to fish recreationa