MEDIA RELEASE 26 October 2010
SHOOTERS AND FISHERS PARTY DECLARES WAR ON
NSW LABOR PARTY
Tired of being double-crossed by the NSW Government, Shooters and Fishers Party MLC Robert Brown today says he has had "enough":
"At a meeting today, the Premier confirmed our growing suspicion that the Government would renege on its promise, to support our Marine Parks (Moratorium) Bill. This is after supporting the Bill in their reply in the Upper House debate."
"We had been pre-warned by the Greens' hubris over the Bill's 'guaranteed failure', so we weren't surprised at the Premier's back-flip".
"Under Premier Rees, we had negotiated Volunteer Conservation Hunting in nearly sixty remote National Parks. When Premier Rees double-crossed us on that undertaking, on the eve of his own political assassination, the new Premier Kristina Keneally agreed to support a Moratorium on new Marine Parks. That was an undertaking she now seems not to recall", Mr. Brown said.
"A convenient loss of memory, given that The Government gave in-principal support to my Bill, during the debate on 24th June in the Upper House "
Party Chairman, and fellow Shooters and Fishers Party MLC, Robert Borsak simply says, "Bring it (the election) on".
"If it's a fight they want, we'll see them in key marginal Labor seats."
"That's ironic, given that their constant welching on deals, is simply because the Labor Party is running scared on Green preferences in those same marginal Lower House seats".
"We will now be forced to play that game too... and Labor will be the loser."
"We will run... and we'll ask our constituents to "put Labor last".
Mr. Brown said he was "deeply disappointed" at the litany of treachery exhibited by the Labor Party over the last term of Parliament.
"The Shooters and Fishers Party made our position clear right from the start".
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"We would not interfere with the Government's ability to govern, and allow the electorate to judge them at elections. That covenant was dependent on the Government not legislating or regulating further against hunters, shooters and fishers in NSW."
"However, the Labor Party's lily-livered pandering to the extreme Greens has led them to deliberately disadvantage our constituents....their obsession with the River Red Gums, and these Marine Parks, is evidence of that."
"So now we'll just have to mobilise hunters and fishers throughout the State to send them a message, just like we did with the Unsworth Government in 1988."
"Like my colleague, Robert Borsak, I say ........"bring it on" !
Further Information: Robert Brown MLC – 0429 303 250
Robert Borsak MLC – 0419 977 097
