By Harry Palmer
Shooting heritage listed brumbies in Kosciusko National Park is again on the NSW government agenda and is raising the ire of those who remember the carnage inflicted on horses 20 years ago.
In 2000, being part of the team at SOS-NEWS (the first online in your face Australian activist website), we were on assignment to investigate NSW government-condoned gunship choppers being used to slaughter hundreds of our heritage brumbies in a national park. Evidence emerged of jaws being shot off, guts shot out, even one mare left to die while giving birth to a foal, all covered up by the RSPCA assisting government spin doctors attempting to hide the truth.
“RAAF gunship pilots and experienced aerial shooters operating in Far North Queensland we interviewed confirm it is impossible to accurately kill with a single shot from a moving or hovering helicopter even with an expert marksman”
Guy Fawkes National Park, NSW was the killing ground for inhumane horse culling 20 years ago. First confirming 226 cases of animal cruelty, the RSPCA backed away from this original finding to just one. This was to silence a plethora of witnesses being called as the government plead guilty and accepted the imposed fine then walked away. This caused a public outcry about the indiscriminate slaughter.
Today the shooting should be stopped and allow suitable land owners to remove horses from the park by cutting bureaucratic red tape. There are many Australian who would love to own a brumby – NO GUNS NEEDED
Gunship culling has been resumed, inhumane killing returned. We know where the RSPCA sits, government does not care .. DO YOU?
Watch this video, although dated, nothing has changed
Pictures are from the old SOS-NEWS archive of our investigation
From SOS-NEWS which ceased publication in 2015. Its archives are now available to Cairns News.
Graziers on Cape York Peninsula have been experiencing similar oppression by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and Biosecurity Australia who have been shooting hundreds of branded and unbranded cattle in Cape York parks and on Aboriginal-controlled land for several years.
Land owners have reported similar cruelty to cattle inflicted by gunshot to that described in the story above.
Last week a chopper pilot allegedly purchased a large amount of ammunition from a northern gun shop ready to start their unlawful shooting operation of cattle which do not belong to them.
Editor: The chopper shooter in the picture above is firing a US M1 Garand semi-auto 30-06 first issued to the US military in 1936. It was used by US troops in WW2 and was notoriously inaccurate in comparison to the British SMLE .303. Why a horse shooter would use this type of rifle when other more suitable, non-military rifles are available is unknown.
We received homeless horses before; in excellent condition & we only had one before & some old donkeys. Happily taking some more horses. Not as many as have been here before, while the owner acknowledged that it’s not horse country; but all up I believe they could number ~8.
It’s the Feral government that needs to be removed, and then re-bred according to the peoples wishes.
Leave the Wild Ponies alone….
I’ve been a shooter – (feral pigs) for almost 40 years, but any bloke that shoots brumbies is neither a shooter or a human being – he’s just a pathetic scumbag and absolute piece of shit! As for the politicians that allow this and the phony Greens, they all deserve to be booted from office and sent to the middle east to see what it feels like to be shot at and slaughtered.
Shane Sigley, said:
“No, their lives liveth for ever more in our hearts as their ancestors carried our great grandfathers and uncles to the glory of the miraculous deliverance of that remarkable battle.”
Thanks for those well meant words.
Along with other relatives, I have two Uncles buried at Lone Pine and what is now Israel. Both Light Horse. Both KIA.
If there are any serving or ex Australian military members killing or assisting with the killing of those Horses, you are the lowest of the low, you are grubs.
Bad enough that the diggers were forced to leave their Horses to be butchered for food or work under the control of (often) rough handling Arabs, etc, and that many diggers shot their Horses as a kinder fate.
Now we mistreat and kill off a definite physical link to the brave, courageous and highly intelligent Horses, that were the pride of the Light Horse Troopers.
Thank God that there are none of those Troopers left to witness what would be a second kick in the teeth for them.
Lest We Forget – the Troopers and their Horses.
To Pat from Vic….Scotty from marketing made the news in 1991 but got off with a slap on the wrist.
I believe he spent thousands of dollars when in office, trying to obliterate any mention of him in papers, in that regard.Luckily this paper cutting was kept prior to that!
A taint of fraud followed him everywhere he worked in the tourist industry.
And he called himself a Christian?
He certainly fitted right in with the others at Hillsong!
Reading this post again and the correspondence and especially Shane Sigley’s comment, I find that I have now reached Zero Tolerance with the CoVID liars and genociders.
Shooting the wild horses of the Waler descendents sent over to the Australian Light Horse makes it clear to me that not only are they determined on a slow-motion genocide with a bioweapon, they also intend to extinguish everything of moral and nationalist value in this country.
https://vwma.org.au/explore/memorials/2879
Memorial to the Waler and the Australian Light Horse.
Hay, NSW.
This is outrageous -they say 20,000 horses a number pulled out of the air in their office, independent count of the horses list them as 1748-the heritage act tells us that 3000 brumbies have to remain in the KCP -because they are killing too many they should be held accountable but as they all are corrupted they just change the law to suit themselves-it has been proven that these horses are good for the environment and ecosystem -entirely innocent of the charges laid against them.- It is killing time in the mountains but people are fighting back by moving across the area in large numbers so they can’t shoot and the horses in that area are safe
This is absolutely DISGUSTING GRRR …. hope these mongrels rot in hell.
These Brumbies are very likely the Waler descendants sent over with the Australian 4th Lighthorse Brigade which charged upon Beersheba on the 31st October, 1917 and as a result handed the holy land into the lap of the British Empire with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. No, their lives liveth for ever more in our hearts as their ancestors carried our great grandfathers and uncles to the glory of the miraculous deliverance of that remarkable battle.
Cruelty to animals, leaving them to suffer. Those who are involved with ordering / allowing / carrying out such, should themselves suffer a similar fate.
Take it from one who has hunted feral animals, there should be no cruelty involved. No leaving wounded animals to suffer a painful death.
Brumbys / Horses treated in the manner as described in this article and many other reported media, shows that Australia is a sick, sick, Country.
Proud Aussies, proud of what?
Yes, the RSPCA should be closed down, they are too much involved in politics.
They have to go, they are part of a problem, have been for many years.
OK, I come from the FNQ bush and have shot lots of brumbies when they start to eat the country out and I have wandered along the East Coast side down from Kosciusko way and seen heaps and heaps of brumbies, some fine looking ones and some bloody awful “yangs.” We FNQ ers used the horsehair from brumbies to counterline saddles and some of the meat churned up in a cement mixer mixed with 1080, and dropped from a light aircraft to get dingoes and wild pigs. Maybe people these days can’t shoot straight but at about 100 yards or close enough to 100 yards side on if you aim at a galloping brumbies nose (or any galloping horse’s nose) with a .303 you will get it through the heart every time and it will die instantly. Were any of we old FNQ people asked for advice on the brumby problem we would opine that you thin out a few stallions because a mare needs a stallion to get into foal, and stallions are easy to find because they leave big mounds of droppings in the one place and return to it.
The corporate pretenders to government of Commonwealth of Australia are still running a democide on the Australian people with a bioweapon.
They are actively pursuing international instruments that will ‘legalise’ their authority to permanently lock us down, create 15 minute cities [kind of like a gulag] and they are breaking the agricultural supply chains to get control of our food supply. And water and electricity etc.
Kind of like Palestine is the population model for the CoVID Regime – don’t you think.
It looks to me like the RAAF brumby shoot is practicing.
Clearly the RSPCA is no longer fit for purpose and ought to be disbanded and replaced by animal lovers.
Everything has a value. From weeds, to animals, to humans. Yet instead of treating these horses as a potential resource, our clueless Govt kills them in the most inhumane manner possible! Have you noticed how the ALP/G/T manage to DESTROY everything that comes to their attention? The RSPCA need to be disbanded for allowing this to happen.
There are no excuses for unnecessary cruelty.
Tony B said – “… boy they will get a shock when these animals start shooting back…”
I agree.
Issue every koala with a thousand rounds and a Glock, and every wombat with a Styr. Just give each wallaby a couple dozen hand grenades, and give the brumbies a couple dozen truckloads of RPGs.
Maybe even give them their own gunships. Karma’s a bitch.
Tony B said – “… they should be charged with animal cruelty and their permits permanently revoked…”
I vote we take all the responsible fake “government” parties involved ( WTF, just round up ALL the Labor, Greens and Teals), tape up their mouths and bind their hands behind their backs, then pair them up, suit them up in horse costumes, and then release them all in Kosciusko National Park.
I’ll bet those gunship shooters never saw a herd of funny-looking horses run so fast. Or spew so much shit from both ends.
Well, who would have thought there could be so much convergence and synchronicity between contemporary news topics?
If they REALLY want to be humane and kill the horsies with ONE SHOT, then why not just use Hellfire Missiles? Why the Hell not, we’re sending everything but the kitchen sink over to Ukraine and Israel tp kill civilians and “mow the grass” over there, so why not “mow the grass” over here too?
You know, those Hellfire Missiles the Israeli gunships used to incinerate HUNDREDS OF CARS at the music festival and slaughter all those Israeli civilians that Israel is blaming on Hamas? I wonder if the Israeli population is EVER going to wake up to THAT inconvenient little detail? No wonder they’re calling it Israel’s “9/11” – after all, the American government slaughtered thoudsands of American civilians way back then too. One good False Flag deserves another, apparently.
And we KNOW it wan’t Hamas gunships that dunnit, because… well, because Hamas doesn’t HAVE any gunships. Does it really need to be spelt out?
And just BTW, while we’re at it, why not just use Hellfire Missiles on all those naughty koalas and wombats and wallabies standing in the way of the massive wind farms being rolled out across Australian farmland and forests? A whole lot easier than chasing down every animal on the landscape and clocking it with a hammer or crowbar. I can’t see any reason the Greenies would object, seeing as how they’re all for humane genocide of Australian wildlife.
Holy, shit, Batman, why not just drop a Nuke on the bastards – kill a million birds with one stone, so to speak, while also clearing the ground to mount all those wind generators on. Surely all the Greenies and even the TEALS would be on board with THAT. No doubt the RSPCA would be too, when they’re not extorting money and sexual favours out of the man on the land here in Australia.
We might even ask Scotty from Marketing for his take on the subject, but he’s already scarpered with his cool $52 MILLION and a couple barrels of Adrenochrome, safe in the knowledge that Senator Heffernan’s list of 28 high profile paedophiles with Scotty’s name at the TOP OF THE LIST will never see the light of day.
Un Bloody believable, here in Vic if you get a permit to shoot vermin and go to the sporting shooters assoc to join in on a vermin hunt on property you have to prove how good a shot you are with tight groupings thus eliminating any suffering on the animal with a clear head shot before you are considered and that’s fair enough, but these government sanctioned shoots obviously anything will do they should be charged with animal cruelty and their permits permanently revoked, if us normies did anything like that the full weight of the fake laws we have will come down on us like a ton of bricks.
I dont mind a cull out on ferals but it has to be done humanly not from helicopters with goons hanging out of them thinking they are rambos in a war zone fair dinkum. Its a classic one rule for me and another for thee, I wake up everyday and shake my head in disbelief at the crap these bolsheviks are doing, we might all be next, boy they will get a shock when these animals start shooting back