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| Subject: Retarded OZschwitz Greens blast Game Council for backing a TV hunting show Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:20 pm | |
| Interested in watching a program on how to shoot a moose and other exotic animals? Maybe you would be if you realised that, as a NSW taxpayer, you helped finance it.
Beyond The Divide, on free-to-air digital channels, carries sponsor advertisements for Beretta weapons, ammunition manufacturer Hornady (Accurate. Deadly. Dependable) and Game Council NSW.
The series promises to reveal the ''true adventure behind the hunt'', with the first series focusing on hunting wapiti deer in New Zealand.
Last week, the Game Council was allocated $4.35 million in the NSW budget, an increase of 63 per cent on the current financial year. Advertisement
Greens NSW MP David Shoebridge condemned the council's sponsorship of the program, and said the government was ''increasingly addicted'' to doing deals with the gun lobby. Game Council NSW receives about two-thirds of its revenue from the government.
''In a tight NSW budget with limited funds for hospitals, schools and public transport, the NSW government managed to spend millions on an organisation that promotes guns and hunting,'' he said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/greens-blast-game-council-for-backing-tv-show-20130622-2opa6.html#ixzz2WzSIeJNQ |
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