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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now we've just spoken to Tourism top End about the
expansion of Lichfield National Park. Now we're making the announcement
on Monday. The Minister for Parks and Wildlife and Tourism
and Hospitality, Murray Clare Boothby, said it would deliver on
the government's election promise to give Territorians more places to camp,
four wheel drive, swim and hunt. So what does the
(00:21):
expansion mean when it comes to hunting. Well, joining me
on the line right now is Bart Irwin. He is
indeed an avid hunter and conservationist and fairly regular guest
on the show Get a Bart. Good to have you
on the show. Mate, tell me what was your reaction
when you heard the government had purchase Silkwood.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, I was delighted. And what struck me first reading
announcement the expansion of Lichfield into Silkwood was that hunting
was mentioned. This Country livel government that's true to its word,
that hunting is at the forefront of their view of
territory lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, Bart, as soon as I saw hunting mentioned, I thought,
I wonder what Bartowen thinks of that. Whenever I think
of hunting, Mate, I always think of you. What do
you reckon.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, yeah, it's for the first time in eight years.
It isn't just fishing, fishing, fishing, if I hit fishing
one more time, but haunters in their constituents at this
government value too. I remember when Leah included hunting in
her victory speech last August. I knew the end of
the tide had turned for the hunting community. And it's
(01:33):
not before time either. So but from.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Your perspective, because I know Keesy epiriculd message me just
a little while ago and she said that she thought
there was a situation with Silkwood where hunters could go
out and hunt feral pigs under a permit system, and
that it seemed to be good to help get rid
of feral pigs. What's your understanding at the moment of
what the go has been for Silkwood.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well, the only thing I know about Silkwood is that
it was owned by I think a doctor there and
he added it up for sale for some time. But
I think what it will do the backcountry hunting program
that exists currently or has for ten years. I think
the Giles government brought it in in an area of
(02:21):
Litchfield Park National Park. I would imagine this is going
to give them an opportunity to extend those areas. The
program is successfully allowed a national park to include recreational
hunting without conflict or interaction between hunters in the general
tourist community for ten years, which is a pretty which
has a big good record when you consider how many
(02:44):
people have been through there, and that's been integral to
the pest management of feral animals like buffalo and pigs.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, so, like, what ideally, from your perspective when it
comes to silkwood, what do you think could happen, you know,
to sort of expand or to enable hunting out in
this new area.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well, I don't think the topography of the area will
will have wetlands for waterfowl huntings. But we believe that
the government's genuine in its campaign promise to open a
new hunting reserves suitable for goose and duck hunting. By
their early action last it was only three weeks after
the election, they began work on a causeway at Harrison
(03:31):
Dam along the east side of Beatrice Lagoon and they
linked up more high ground across through tributaries and added
twenty percent more shoreline or more area to the hunters there,
So that was pretty quick action. The hunting in here
will I if it goes along the back country hunting system,
(03:54):
it'll be quite possibly still be balloted. But as the
previous guest you had on and said, it's the access
to that area of silk wood would be year round,
Well that isn't the case with where they are currently
in Litchfield. So that if that's the case, there's an
(04:18):
area put aside. Would I think it's sixty thousand acres
or something or roughly a bit more than that. That
will add a lot of hunting opunities for the people
are credited because of that country hunting. You have to
be accredited, you have to do a course and so forth,
and then you're balloted two or three days I think
(04:41):
maximum four days throughout that dry season will now be
ample opportunity to get in there and coural or not coal.
But take out pigs and buffalo that cause damage in
those areas, especially if there is a to work ground,
they really ruin it.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
But look, I know, as I say this, I'm sure
some people will be not agreeing with me at all.
But do you think that it could also potentially provide
an opportunity maybe for a tourism operator, you know, to
have hunting experiences for people in the northern territory.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh, certainly there are there are hunting safari operators that
already operate on their own conceptions of stations and aboriginal
But this will, this will bring and it is always
the issue of bringing international tourists. It's difficult because all
(05:44):
of a sudden, you know, when they're having their winter
and want to get away from it like we do,
they can't get out there because it's just too wet.
You can't move. So those those operators, those safari operos
pack their camps over the wet season and they move
(06:06):
down south or they go do the day job. But
this gives, this gives the opportunity for even more hunting tourism.
And in Australia there's five hundred thousand hunters across the
whole territory. A lot of them comes for goose season.
This will give me the opportunity to also go to silk
(06:28):
wood and maybe take on a buffalo or some kids.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well, Bart Irwin, it's good to speak with you this morning.
Like I say, when I saw this announcement and I
saw hunting mentioned, I thought, oh, I wonder what bart thanks,
and I wonder what opportunities it could provide. So it
is really good to talk to you this morning and
hear what you think about it all.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Thanks Katie so much for calling, and your focus on
hunting is always very welcome amongst your listenership for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Good on your butt. Thank you mate, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Thank you, thank you,
Now we've just spoken to Tourism top End about the
expansion of Lichfield National Park. Now we're making the announcement
on Monday. The Minister for Parks and Wildlife and Tourism
and Hospitality, Murray Clare Boothby, said it would deliver on
the government's election promise to give Territorians more places to camp,
four wheel drive, swim and hunt. So what does the
(00:21):
expansion mean when it comes to hunting. Well, joining me
on the line right now is Bart Irwin. He is
indeed an avid hunter and conservationist and fairly regular guest
on the show Get a Bart. Good to have you
on the show. Mate, tell me what was your reaction
when you heard the government had purchase Silkwood.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, I was delighted. And what struck me first reading
announcement the expansion of Lichfield into Silkwood was that hunting
was mentioned. This Country livel government that's true to its word,
that hunting is at the forefront of their view of
territory lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, Bart, as soon as I saw hunting mentioned, I thought,
I wonder what Bartowen thinks of that. Whenever I think
of hunting, Mate, I always think of you. What do
you reckon.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, yeah, it's for the first time in eight years.
It isn't just fishing, fishing, fishing, if I hit fishing
one more time, but haunters in their constituents at this
government value too. I remember when Leah included hunting in
her victory speech last August. I knew the end of
the tide had turned for the hunting community. And it's
(01:33):
not before time either. So but from.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Your perspective, because I know Keesy epiriculd message me just
a little while ago and she said that she thought
there was a situation with Silkwood where hunters could go
out and hunt feral pigs under a permit system, and
that it seemed to be good to help get rid
of feral pigs. What's your understanding at the moment of
what the go has been for Silkwood.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well, the only thing I know about Silkwood is that
it was owned by I think a doctor there and
he added it up for sale for some time. But
I think what it will do the backcountry hunting program
that exists currently or has for ten years. I think
the Giles government brought it in in an area of
(02:21):
Litchfield Park National Park. I would imagine this is going
to give them an opportunity to extend those areas. The
program is successfully allowed a national park to include recreational
hunting without conflict or interaction between hunters in the general
tourist community for ten years, which is a pretty which
has a big good record when you consider how many
(02:44):
people have been through there, and that's been integral to
the pest management of feral animals like buffalo and pigs.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, so, like, what ideally, from your perspective when it
comes to silkwood, what do you think could happen, you know,
to sort of expand or to enable hunting out in
this new area.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well, I don't think the topography of the area will
will have wetlands for waterfowl huntings. But we believe that
the government's genuine in its campaign promise to open a
new hunting reserves suitable for goose and duck hunting. By
their early action last it was only three weeks after
the election, they began work on a causeway at Harrison
(03:31):
Dam along the east side of Beatrice Lagoon and they
linked up more high ground across through tributaries and added
twenty percent more shoreline or more area to the hunters there,
So that was pretty quick action. The hunting in here
will I if it goes along the back country hunting system,
(03:54):
it'll be quite possibly still be balloted. But as the
previous guest you had on and said, it's the access
to that area of silk wood would be year round,
Well that isn't the case with where they are currently
in Litchfield. So that if that's the case, there's an
(04:18):
area put aside. Would I think it's sixty thousand acres
or something or roughly a bit more than that. That
will add a lot of hunting opunities for the people
are credited because of that country hunting. You have to
be accredited, you have to do a course and so forth,
and then you're balloted two or three days I think
(04:41):
maximum four days throughout that dry season will now be
ample opportunity to get in there and coural or not coal.
But take out pigs and buffalo that cause damage in
those areas, especially if there is a to work ground,
they really ruin it.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
But look, I know, as I say this, I'm sure
some people will be not agreeing with me at all.
But do you think that it could also potentially provide
an opportunity maybe for a tourism operator, you know, to
have hunting experiences for people in the northern territory.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh, certainly there are there are hunting safari operators that
already operate on their own conceptions of stations and aboriginal
But this will, this will bring and it is always
the issue of bringing international tourists. It's difficult because all
(05:44):
of a sudden, you know, when they're having their winter
and want to get away from it like we do,
they can't get out there because it's just too wet.
You can't move. So those those operators, those safari operos
pack their camps over the wet season and they move
(06:06):
down south or they go do the day job. But
this gives, this gives the opportunity for even more hunting tourism.
And in Australia there's five hundred thousand hunters across the
whole territory. A lot of them comes for goose season.
This will give me the opportunity to also go to silk
(06:28):
wood and maybe take on a buffalo or some kids.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well, Bart Irwin, it's good to speak with you this morning.
Like I say, when I saw this announcement and I
saw hunting mentioned, I thought, oh, I wonder what bart thanks,
and I wonder what opportunities it could provide. So it
is really good to talk to you this morning and
hear what you think about it all.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Thanks Katie so much for calling, and your focus on
hunting is always very welcome amongst your listenership for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Good on your butt. Thank you mate, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Thank you, thank you,
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