neilmny wrote:I share your rage about the campers....my favourite
the single toilet tissue spread far and wide depositor.
I wonder what upgrading 4WD tracks actually means........perhaps a 2WD can be driven on them???????
I wonder if Dan knows what it means??????
Gotta vote for someone Xplora or you end up with the Trumpster.
I try to make an informed vote so I actually spend time looking into the policies. Fortunately in the upper house you only have to vote below the line up to 5. I have seen the above the line preferences and they do not fit with me for any party. I will try to push out 10 below the line but even that will be hard. For the lower house it is probably a given that the sitting National will be returned but he really needs a cattle prod (in the form of a huge swing) to get himself actually doing anything. I have had multiple dealings with him over the years on various matters and have to say there is none quicker to respond to an email but then you never hear what he has done. Five months later you get back to him with a 'how is that matter going' and the same again. One bloke on the list thinks he is running for council and another wants cattle back in the high country. The ALP candidate has been doing nothing in council for a number of years and was less than helpful when we were trying to sort out our rubbish problem. Council were going to take our facility away entirely as well as charge us for driving an hour to deposit our rubbish. This was the plan for many remote areas of East Gippsland. The donkey vote would put the DLP in and she takes after her father who is on the top of the upper house ticket for the DLP but she actually does give a damn about the local area.
I suspect you are right about the 4wd tracks. Most would be dirt tracks that are 2wd already. We regularly go around the many unofficial campsite on the river and pick up rubbish. Our local rangers are good but they concentrate on the formal sites. Picking up toilet paper is a bit beyond us but it is all over the place. Many of these sites are within 20m of the river so I am starting a push to have people moved on from them.
None of this is on topic so sorry for the hijack. I don't see a great deal of benefit in the parks being jointly managed apart from the recognition of the original owners. As mentioned previously, nothing can be done in the parks now unless you get permission from the indigenous councils and many of them are being deliberately obstructive by delaying any approvals. Lets see the joint management goes in reality.