Tfp Gets Ready For Nsw Election

[BOB_SMITH]

The Fishing Party

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HEAD OFFICE (Federal)

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SINGLETON HEIGHTS NSW 2330

Ph/fax 0265 560338 0408434591

Email: sinali@optusnet.com.au

www.thefishingparty.info

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

NEWS ITEM

The Fishing Party gets ready for 2007 NSW State Elections

The Fishing Party announces that it has secured the services of Mr. Glenn Druery as their election campaign strategist and organizer.

Robert Smith, the party chairman stated that Glenn comes with expert credentials in handling elections and doing deals. Glenn just missed his own political spot in the last Federal Election, which was well acknowledged in the political election roundup. His fame is that he (with our party preferences help) stopped the Greens from getting another Senate seat. The Fishing Party will be endeavoring to repeat that outcome next election.

The party expects to lead a full fifteen-candidate group ticket in the NSW Senate along with targeting and contesting House of Representative coastal seats currently held by Labor. Six seats, Tweed, Port Stephens, Wallsend, Sydney (Port Jackson) are definite; Kiama and Swansea are in the pipeline. The Central Coast Labor seats will be targeted next for candidates.

The everyday Australian, and especially the one million fishing voters, plus the countless recreational community have been deserted by government agendas. Their recreation is being eroded by political deals rather than science. If the party can attract the disenfranchised heartland vote or secure the number one spot on the voting tickets we could break the Labor/Green marriage that they need to govern.

National Park management is out of control, it is empirical and under funded. This and Environmental concerns will be also part of our campaign. The rural community is suffering the consequences.

Further information: - Robert Smith, Chairman, TFP, 0265560338, 0408434591, sinali@optusnet.com.au

[Hooky.]

Good luck Bob, I'd love to vote for your party but I'm a bit sceptical of a political party that's willing to show the slightest bit of compromise with the commercial fishing sector.

http://taree.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?story_id=435493

http://taree.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?story_id=435494

http://taree.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?story_id=435495

http://taree.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?story_id=436854

[Tim]

Good luck Bob, I'd love to vote for your party but I'm a bit sceptical of a political party that's willing to show the slightest bit of compromise with the commercial fishing sector.

http://taree.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?story_id=435493

http://taree.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?story_id=435494

http://taree.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?story_id=435495

http://taree.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?story_id=436854

I think they're going to have to work together and make comprimises if they want to achieve anything. It makes sense.

[BOB_SMITH]

Hooky

Sorry you are skeptical. I guess that means you don't vote for any party because of many skeptical matters. What is the problem with the article from TFP.

The two fishing clubs in the area apparently agreed with the commercial fishers. I DIDN'T unless there was a change in the way it was managed and as a matter of fact in the way the whole industry was managed. If there is no room for all to work together then lets lock it all up and go home and eat tin food or imported crap. Simple answer.

I don't have any sympathy or support for any commercial fisher who wants to buck the system or any pro who abuses his license entitlements but I will support a viable industry for the people over importing crap and that means any commodity. The Governments make the rules so lets ALL attack them if we are not happy jan.

The article from MRTimes

Fishers want Stein way

Tuesday, 8 November 2005

THE Fishing Party will oppose the move to re-open part of the Manning River, unless the Rick Stein approach of 'catch and use locally' is legislated into the process.

Fishing Party spokesman Robert Smith, a Harrington resident, was commenting on Taree Fishermen's Co-operative's application to the Minister for Primary Industries and Fisheries to trade-off rights to fish a 3.2 km section of river downstream of Cedar Party Creek for a 3.2km section downstream of Ghinni Ghinni Creek (MRT Wednesday).

The commercial operators want to return to an area between Taree and the river entrance which they claim is essential to their ongoing fishing and prawning viability, and which was closed to them in 2002. They say the area they are prepared to sacrifice, between Taree and Wingham, is a popular bass fishing spot for recreational anglers.

However Mr Smith has reacted to their proposal by saying the resource is publicly owned, which means that neither recreational nor commercial fishers have sole right to either harvest or use the resource.

Further, using the recreational fishing licence as ownership for the right to fish is misleading, he said.

"The approach by Rick Stein (well documented TV presenter and seafood author) ensures that the general public as well as recreational fishers can enjoy the local seafood without the need to have massive extraction to supply the export industry, and then be forced and subjected to purchase imported, inferior products.

"The NIMBY (not in my back yard) approach only puts pressure on somebody's else's fishery," Mr Smith said.

"Surely recreational fishers, limited commercial fishers along with indigenous fishers can work together because there are bigger problems facing access to the resource than this one."

Mr Smith was critical of a statement by Sustainable Fishing and Tourism executive Trevor Burns in Wednesday's Times that ‘every community accepted the recreational fishing licence'.

"This is incorrect as our recent licence survey so far dispelled that, with 90 per cent or more respondents saying the licence is unfair and that alternate financing from all benefactors is overwhelmingly preferred."

Bob Smith

[Hooky.]

Hooky

Sorry you are skeptical. I guess that means you don't vote for any party because of many skeptical matters. What is the problem with the article from TFP.

Thanks for your reply and explaination Bob. Nothing wrong with the article except like most newspaper articles it doesn't explain the real facts.

I don't understand why anyone would want to "swap" a now prestine fishing area for what I reckon is a desert upstream from Bays Hill.

I think it's fair to say that most voters are sceptical when it comes to political parties and how most of them end up representing the public. You only need to look at the current flock of galahs in Macquarie Street to see it first hand.

As for who I vote for, well, that's why we have a secret ballot but I can assure you that I didn't vote for anyone aligned with the mob that's screwing the state of NSW at the moment.

cheers

Hooky