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Permits for saltwater croc hunting should be allocated on a public tag and lottery system. With winners able to arrange or buy access with landowners, outfitters. Aboriginals with any that are interested.
This concept to provide tags only to wealthy bigwigs is Australian in my opinion.
Outfitters could easily offer safaris and access to lottery winners.
Providing access to foreigners could easily be done by insisting they use an outfitter, as is done in 99% of other countries.
Regardless how the arrangements are made, the permits will be sold to the highest bidder (as a rule). Landowners will be looking to cash in on 'their' crocdiles. Public tag or lottery system will never fly in the short-term .... but if the proposal does get-up and the trial succeeds, hopefully down the track a public ballot could be aranged - but that would work better on public land, where there are less competing interests.
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Re: Croc hunting back on the agenda