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In article <40evk5$47n@manuel.anu.edu.au> Christopher Dean <cdean> writes:
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>From: Christopher Dean <cdean>
>Newsgroups: aus.students,uk.environment,rec.animals.wildlife,canb.general,aus.environment.misc,aus.buswalking
Net.People LURVE others who Post to appropriate groups... 

canb.general _isn't_ about discussing politics, its for Canberrans. 

>Dear readers,
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>I propose that:
>1. Their arguments are far too flimsy (often false) and that such
>environmental destruction cease immediately and with government assistance.

Excellent rhetoric (oops! proposal)

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>3. That fauna surveys be made compulsory before
>any oldgrowth areas are logged.

They are now.  They are even made by Dept. Parks & Wildlife.  Didn't you
follow the news around the recent Licence renewals?  The Gov't pushed the 
department into hurrying their surveys.  Some of the preliminary studies were 
later reversed  by the Department when they had a chance to do better surveys.


>4. That false or misleading advertising promoting woodchipping requires a
>second advert exlpaining how the first was misleading and that such policy
>be backdated to at least 10 years.

False and misleading advertising is against the law.

>5. That the general public be made aware of the life forms and their
>distribution in Australia's old growth forests.

Go for it.  Talk to the ABC about a documentary.  Or SBS.  Or somebody else.
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