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Invasive animals roadshow coming to a town near you

12 Jan, 2012 03:00 AM
INVASIVE animals cost Australia more than a billion dollars annually. For an update on research and management developments to control invasive animals such as wild dogs, rabbits, foxes, feral pigs and carp, the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre for the first time is bringing the PestSmart Roadshow to a place near you in 2012.

The PestSmart Roadshow is carried out in conjunction with the Invasive Animals CRC partners Australian Wool Innovation, Meat and Livestock Australia and the Murray-

Darling Basin Authority. It will criss-cross the country with 17 events starting in Queanbeyan on 30 January and ending in Townsville on 1 May 2012.

The Roadshow will also showcase the PestSmart Toolkits – which is a national online collection of invasive species information.

At all times before, between and after these Roadshow dates, the Invasive Animals CRC said it encourages graziers, farmers, public land managers and others with responsibility to control invasive animals to visit the PestSmart website: www.feral.org.au/p estsmart/

and examine the PestSmart Toolkits on specific invasive animals to guide them in policy,

legislation, control tools, best-practice management and implementation.

Places are limited so you MUST register at http://pestsmart.e ventbrite.com.au/ for each Roadshow and for catering purposes which provides free morning and afternoon teas and lunch.

The Roadshow which starts at 8am through to 5pm at all venues will showcase best practice pest management incorporating currently used techniques and the latest innovations.

Monday 30 January

QUEANBEYAN, NSW

Queanbeyan Conference Centre

Wednesday 1 February

FORBES, NSW

Forbes Services Memorial Club

Friday 3 February

ALBURY, NSW

Albury Commercial Club

Tuesday 7 February

NARACOORTE, SA

Naracoorte Town Hall

Wednesday 8 February

HORSHAM, Vic

Horsham Sports and Commercial Club

Friday 10 February

MILDURA, Vic

The Setts

Tuesday 14 February

PORT AUGUSTA, SA

The Barracks

Thursday 16 February

PORT LINCOLN, SA

Ravendale Community Sports Centre

Monday 20 February

CARNARVON, WA

Carnarvon Civic Centre Woolshed

Wednesday 22 February

KOJONUP, WA

Memorial / Lesser Hall

Friday 24 February

ESPERANCE, WA

Esperance Civic Theatre

Tuesday 28 February

BOURKE, NSW

Diggers on the Darling (old Oxley

RSL)

Wednesday 14 March

CHARLEVILLE, QLD

Charleville Memorial RSL Club

Friday 16 March

TOOWOOMBA, QLD

Highfields Cultural Centre

Tuesday 20 March

ARMIDALE, NSW

Armidale Ex-Services Club

Tuesday 17 April

BAIRNSDALE, Vic

Bairnsdale RSL

Tuesday 1 May

TOWNSVILLE. QLD

Townsville RSL

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A billion dollars in lost income, $300 million in lost tax revenue and we still don't have a system of guest worker visas that would allow us to employ small teams of Timorese or Indonesians to deliver a cost effective response.

Millions of poor from the non-muslim world would jump at the chance to hunt feral pigs for a tenth of an Australian wage under a temporary visa system. If they only killed and processed one pig a week they would still be way out in front.

Instead, we are wrapped in a union straightjacket that "protects" jobs that simply don't exist at Aussie wage rates.

Posted by Ian Mott, 12/01/2012 5:37:26 PM, on The Land

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