territory fm, country hour had an artical about the ferrals over running the place and had matt on for an interview.
it was exelent highlighting the problems the cockies have and went on to mention using hunters to thin the numbers, all very positive and put hunting in a good story for a change.
just a pitty it was on the abc coz no one listens
nice to get the word out there that we arnt all loonies.
greg

I wanted to listen to that but lost reception as I was heading to Katherine.Bugger.

Thanks Greg

It was a bit dodgy I think – the interviewer caught me off-guard with some pretty curly questions….
Actually I really did the interview for commercial reasons, as a lot of graziers listen to the ABC and I am trying to get a hold of new areas for our culling operations and the ABC had also been running those ‘camel problem’ stories. So we were mainly talking about what we do commercially in the international safari hunting and culling, etc, rather than what we as local hunters do.

The interviewer/ presenter Kate Sieper is very interested in the whole hunting thing however and I think there is a great opportunity there to get some good ongoing press with the ABC NT Rural. I have invited her to one of my camps for a couple of days to see what we do and I think it would be good it someone based in Darwin would host her at a range day or something. Any suggestions on a suitable shoot and host?

Here is an extract from the interview I did and I am seeing if they have a full transcript…

Camel Story
Cheers
MG

[quote]The interviewer/ presenter Kate Sieper is very interested in the whole hunting thing however and I think there is a great opportunity there to get some good ongoing press with the ABC NT Rural. I have invited her to one of my camps for a couple of days to see what we do and I think it would be good it someone based in Darwin would host her at a range day or something. Any suggestions on a suitable shoot and host?

mg,
that there was any positive talk of any form had me smileing.
i think there was a couple of hairy questions that were well responded to. the head shot questions were well explained i think if we explaine that we dont want the animal to suffer it all adds to the justification that we should be out thining the numbers, humainely.
where you based? i just asumed it was darwin, if you think we can get some positive exposure i will see what i can do.
greg