Parks Victoria

Uh, and in a statement, Dr. Stephen Dibley, Agriculture Victoria's chief plant health officer, said, and I quote, "Land managers are responsible for controlling locusts on the land they manage, including undertaking spraying where required.

Agriculture Victoria also publishes current hatching information online and works directly with land managers to support effective control." Parks Victoria spokesperson said it is working with, uh, as part of the statewide incident management team for plague locusts on monitoring and surveillance efforts in the region.

Uh, you can tell me what you think about that, or you can tell me what you think about a government-run supermarket, 1300-977-222 if you wanna give me a call.

Text messages, it's hard to keep up with.

And Seb, you've shown the light on this in the Herald Sun.

Parks Victoria is refusing to do anything about it.

And the council says, oh, conveniently, it's out of their jurisdiction.

Seb, this seems to speak to a much broader program.

... job in, in helping open up those, those roads, which is, which is just great.

But, you know, for our listeners, watch the, the Parks Vic website to, you know, for the Alpine National Park particularly to see, you know, if it is all going to open.

Some areas will probably open before others.

It's pretty common practice down there.

And so he's basically a contact from a Bunurong aspect.

Tungurong, they have their own ranger teams within Parks Victoria now as well.

We've got students currently going through the course that will have that qualification at the end.

That leads them onto bigger and better opportunities within Tungurong as well.

Because I'm going to address the elephant in the room, and I'm sure it has been brought up at some stage.

Why is this just a free course for blackfellas, for mob? Because it seems to me that whilst people in the background may have that whinge and moan about that, they're not really thinking about the broader picture.

And the employment of these people who graduate from the course, who will then be taking that knowledge out to local governments, to Parks Victoria and to traditional owners themselves.

Let's explore that a little bit.

You know, I mean, the road authorities in Victoria are made up of quite a number of...

Department of Transport and Planning, the local councils, Parks Victoria, they manage parks and reserves, Transurban, they manage Sizzling, Department of Environment, Land, Water...

Then there's, you know, the forest roads, Connect East, the operator East Link, Southern Way, Peninsula Link.

So these are all the relevant authorities when it comes to...

It's not an issue about their passing the buck between themselves because each authority's got responsibility for different roads.

Like, for example, you know, Department of Environment, Land and Water and Planning, they manage roads in the forest.

And Parks Victoria manages roads within parks and reserves.

So if you get injured in one of those places, they're responsible if you can prove that they've reached the Road Management Act, which then again, basically what you need to do is when you write to the council under Freedom of Information, you get their documentation.

People are looking for accessibility.

So we're in Parks Victoria land.

So we feature on their website.

So I think...

They succeeded spectacularly, removing more than 4,720 individual pieces of rubbish.

The effort was led by Beach Patrol 3280, 3284 groups and Friends of the Great South West Walk, together with representatives from Parks Victoria, Glenelg Hopkins, CMA.

Colin Hewson from Beach Patrol 3280 says another clean-up would be held this Sunday at Discovery Bay in Portland.

For those interested, a bus will leave the Warrnambool Tourist Information Centre at around 8am.

And I thought, well, that's interesting.

And then, of course, Parks Victoria came and regularly sprayed pesticides along our boundary because we were on the Yarra River.

Jesus Christ.

So it's a trifecta of stuff.