Property Rights

Justice may be blind, but many Australian farmers find the scales are tipped against them as they struggle to come to terms with a growing minefield of environmental regulations on top of other natural enemies.

They are not fighting the concept of land management, but the way in which their properties can be ‘locked up’ or confiscated without proper compensation. They can be prosecuted for something suddenly illegal under frequent amendments to vegetation laws which can be applied retrospectively. The farmer is virtually presumed guilty until innocence can be proven, often at great expense.

Those who live in cities and urban areas might find this difficult to comprehend. The following events are more suited to a communist dictatorship but they happened in our “free country” …

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  • Social Bookmarks says:

    10:35am | 17/06/12

    ZUQOeQ I am so grateful for your post.Really looking forward to read more. Fantastic. Read more »

  • sam says:

    01:30pm | 13/02/12

    I would like to see people acknowledge where all the weeds came from in the first place? would like to see the alpine cattle graziers clean up the mess they have created, we have weeds at the top of our catchments thanks to the introduction of a foreign species, we… Read more »

 

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