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Reply #15 - Yesterday at 9:01am

You aren't allowed to hunt in national parks. Even for introduced pest species like deer and pigs. Hunters complain about this all the time. There is potential here for a massive win-win deal, but it gets swallowed in red tape and the whining of the animal libbers. National parks also tend to be a haven for pest plant species like lantana, which causes all sorts of problems for neighbouring farmers.

What little the government does do, costs an absolute fortune, because they invent whole new government departments to "manage" it and hire people with PhD's in microbiology to do the work, when they could just let people do it for free.

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Reply #16 - Yesterday at 9:45am

John Smith wrote Yesterday at 6:28am:

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 11:53pm:

John Smith wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 8:04pm:

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 5:02pm:

They never hunted rabbits, hares or foxes either but that doesn’t stop my Aboriginal mates from doing so.

I'm sure they can learn to hunt anything they want.. .. but thats irrelevant to your claim that they have forgotten. The decline in pig hunters isn't limited to aboriginnes. Less white people are hunting them too. Why didn't you ask if they forgot how too?

It was an ironic joke, they want the land but not the hard yakka that goes with looking after it.

It's not that simple. Getting a gun license is not easy. And once they have it, there are all sorts of rules and regulations they have to follow that make it difficult to keep and store guns, or make ammunition accessible. Given that many of those lands are isolated. It's a bit difficult to hunt pigs with a boomerang.
Besides, would you walk around the bush with a rifle if you were Aboriginal?I wouldn't. To many racist cops out there looking for an excuse.

They could always use tulas.

"Passing the knowledge on … it's a lost art," she said.

"It will never end, it will never stop. I'll still be out on country, still looking, still finding new things, discovering things and seeing how things work.

"That's the only way to find out, to get out there, and you always find something new … just filling in the missing gaps everywhere."

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Reply #17 - Yesterday at 9:56am

John Smith wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 4:06pm:

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 4:02pm:

‘’They’’ is ‘’them’’ wot is mentioned in the link.

Aborigines have never hunted pigs. They were introduced by white man.

Well they've had over 200 years to learn.

And they do hunt feral pigs. Some for their own consumption, some for a food source on Indigenous run crocodile farms, & many for conservation/environmental management controls.

And dumbarse the last Aboriginals to come in out of the Gibson Desert in 1984 - the Pintupi 9 - joined the community at Kiwirrkurra who have been eating feral cats for generations.

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Pintupi and other central desert tribes have been hunting feral cats for their meat for generations, but handing over their stomachs for science is a relatively new step. The CDNTS introduced the bounty for cats caught on Kiwirrkurra traditional lands last year to encourage the community to put more effort into the hunt.

“Pintupi people see cats as a good food source and also as a medicinal food source,” Crossing told Guardian Australia. “A young man has recounted to me about how as a young fellow he was sick and his family went out and got a cat.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/27/traditional-hunters-and-w...

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Since the 1880s, First Nations people have hunted feral cats for meat, a practice that was once widespread across Australia. Today, this practice is primarily observed in the Nyirripi community in the Northern Territory and Kiwirrkurra community in Western Australia.

https://feralcatandfox.com.au/tools/cat/indigenous-hunting/

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Since their introduction to Australia in the 1880’s feral cats have been hunted for meat by Aboriginal people. Once a widespread occurrence, traditional hunting of feral cats now only occurs regularly in the Nyirripi and Kiwirrkurra communities. Amongst Kiwirrkurra people cat meat is regarded as highly desirable, and is recognised as a good medicine. In many communities cat hunters are admired for their skill.

Traditional hunting practices require a great deal of knowledge and skill to know where to find cats, how they behave and how to track them. Skilled hunters can identify cat tracks and judge how fresh the tracks are.

https://wafcwg.org.au/information/indigenous-hunting/

So as usual knowall dumbarse Smith doesn't know what he's talking about.

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Reply #18 - Yesterday at 10:00am

John Smith wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 8:04pm:

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 5:02pm:

They never hunted rabbits, hares or foxes either but that doesn’t stop my Aboriginal mates from doing so.

I'm sure they can learn to hunt anything they want.. .. but thats irrelevant to your claim that they have forgotten. The decline in pig hunters isn't limited to aboriginnes. Less white people are hunting them too. Why didn't you ask if they forgot how too?

Ask yourself why that is.

Yet there are still plenty who are doing just that.

FB & Youtube are full of video footage from loads of feral animal hunters .....they tackle pigs, cats, foxes, dogs, camels, water buffalo, donkeys, pigeons, rats.

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Reply #19 - Yesterday at 10:06am

John Smith wrote Yesterday at 6:28am:

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 11:53pm:

John Smith wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 8:04pm:

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 5:02pm:

They never hunted rabbits, hares or foxes either but that doesn’t stop my Aboriginal mates from doing so.

I'm sure they can learn to hunt anything they want.. .. but thats irrelevant to your claim that they have forgotten. The decline in pig hunters isn't limited to aboriginnes. Less white people are hunting them too. Why didn't you ask if they forgot how too?

It was an ironic joke, they want the land but not the hard yakka that goes with looking after it.

It's not that simple. Getting a gun license is not easy. And once they have it, there are all sorts of rules and regulations they have to follow that make it difficult to keep and store guns, or make ammunition accessible. Given that many of those lands are isolated. It's a bit difficult to hunt pigs with a boomerang.
Besides, would you walk around the bush with a rifle if you were Aboriginal?I wouldn't. To many racist cops out there looking for an excuse.

They didn't use boomerangs for anything but birds/bats dickhead. They had spears too.

But today they use White Man Magic - yes 4x4s, boats with outboards and rifles & shotguns.

As for your last dickhead comment it's typical of your leftoid impairment.

How many coppers are out on remote/isolated community lands? you f*#kwit.

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Reply #20 - Yesterday at 11:21am

John Smith wrote Yesterday at 6:28am:

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 11:53pm:

John Smith wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 8:04pm:

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 5:02pm:

They never hunted rabbits, hares or foxes either but that doesn’t stop my Aboriginal mates from doing so.

I'm sure they can learn to hunt anything they want.. .. but thats irrelevant to your claim that they have forgotten. The decline in pig hunters isn't limited to aboriginnes. Less white people are hunting them too. Why didn't you ask if they forgot how too?

It was an ironic joke, they want the land but not the hard yakka that goes with looking after it.

It's not that simple. Getting a gun license is not easy. And once they have it, there are all sorts of rules and regulations they have to follow that make it difficult to keep and store guns, or make ammunition accessible. Given that many of those lands are isolated. It's a bit difficult to hunt pigs with a boomerang.
Besides, would you walk around the bush with a rifle if you were Aboriginal?I wouldn't. To many racist cops out there looking for an excuse.

Getting a firearm license is quite easy, all that one has to do is apply and meet the criteria required to be considered a fit and proper person.
But that aside, the spear is sufficient for killing pigs and has been used worldwide for killing dangerous game.

My Aboriginal mates and relatives hunt, and thus walk around the bush, armed with rifles or shotguns, so far the only thing the police have done is ask if they have a license, and that has happened only once.

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Reply #22 - Yesterday at 12:25pm

Gnads wrote Yesterday at 9:56am:

Well they've had over 200 years to learn.

you've had over 50 to use your brain and thats yet to happen

Gnads wrote Yesterday at 9:56am:

And they do hunt feral pigs.

I didn't say they didn't

Gnads wrote Yesterday at 9:56am:

eating feral cats

ask a child to explain to you the difference between a cat and a pig

Gnads wrote Yesterday at 9:56am:

So as usual knowall dumbarse Smith doesn't know what he's talking about.

again, ask a child to explain to you the difference between a cat and a pig

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Reply #23 - Yesterday at 12:26pm

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote Yesterday at 11:21am:

Getting a firearm license is quite easy, all that one has to do is apply and meet the criteria required to be considered a fit and proper person.

and you need a secure place to store it, and another secure place to store the ammunition as well as a supply of ammunition unless you plan on clubbing them with the gun.

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Reply #24 - Yesterday at 12:39pm

John Smith wrote Yesterday at 12:25pm:

Gnads wrote Yesterday at 9:56am:

Well they've had over 200 years to learn.

you've had over 50 to use your brain and thats yet to happen

Gnads wrote Yesterday at 9:56am:

And they do hunt feral pigs.

I didn't say they didn't

Gnads wrote Yesterday at 9:56am:

eating feral cats

ask a child to explain to you the difference between a cat and a pig

Gnads wrote Yesterday at 9:56am:

So as usual knowall dumbarse Smith doesn't know what he's talking about.

again, ask a child to explain to you the difference between a cat and a pig

Yeah you did phuknuckle

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John Smith wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 4:06pm:

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Nov 30^th, 2025 at 4:02pm:

‘’They’’ is ‘’them’’ wot is mentioned in the link.

Aborigines have never hunted pigs. They were introduced by white man.

Dumbarse - you were the one who was crapping on about animals introduced by white man.

So the difference between a pig & a cat in the context it was used for you(dumbarse) is irrelevant.

Much like everything you post.

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Reply #25 - Yesterday at 12:41pm

John Smith wrote Yesterday at 12:26pm:

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote Yesterday at 11:21am:

Getting a firearm license is quite easy, all that one has to do is apply and meet the criteria required to be considered a fit and proper person.

and you need a secure place to store it, and another secure place to store the ammunition as well as a supply of ammunition unless you plan on clubbing them with the gun.

Ohhhh durrrrh - that would be so difficult wouldn't it?

Someone should have shot you into the sheets very early.

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Reply #27 - Yesterday at 12:46pm

Gnads wrote Yesterday at 12:39pm:

Dumbarse - you were the one who was crapping on about animals introduced by white man.

no, I was crapping on about pigs being introduced

Gnads wrote Yesterday at 12:39pm:

So the difference between a pig & a cat in the context it was used for you(dumbarse) is irrelevant.

you've obviously never hunted a pig Cheesy

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Reply #28 - Yesterday at 5:31pm

John Smith wrote Yesterday at 12:26pm:

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote Yesterday at 11:21am:

Getting a firearm license is quite easy, all that one has to do is apply and meet the criteria required to be considered a fit and proper person.

and you need a secure place to store it, and another secure place to store the ammunition as well as a supply of ammunition unless you plan on clubbing them with the gun.

Secure storage is no problem only needs the receptacle to be fixed correctly to the frame of the house, ditto for ammo and Government supplied houses meet security requirements and the supply of ammunition is assured by having a licence and some cash.

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Reply #29 - Yesterday at 7:20pm

John Smith wrote Yesterday at 12:45pm:

Gnads wrote Yesterday at 12:41pm:

Ohhhh durrrrh - that would be so difficult wouldn't it?

In some places, most definitely Roll Eyes

Gnads wrote Yesterday at 12:41pm: