This not-so-smart young man jumped into the Johnstone River at Innisfail some years ago to “impress a young girl” but it took just a minute before a croc grabbed his arm and dragged him under water. He was able to punch the croc in the eye and it let him go, leaving him with a badly damaged limb.
Katters Australian Party has fought hard and long to wake up the Labor and Liberal parties to the danger North Queenslanders face every day from an out-of-control salt water crocodile population.
Fresh water, salt water, rivers, creeks, Great Barrier Reef or the sea from the Mary River at Maryborough to the Torres Strait are all home to crocs from 25 cm to seven metres long.
Since 1971 there have been 81 recorded attacks on humans, 16 were fatal, however this government data is not conclusive and a number of attacks in the Gulf, Peninsula and Torres Strait areas over this period have not been recorded or in many cases not reported at all.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fishermen and those living along rivers and the sea have regular interactions with crocs which are never recorded similar to tourists or white fishermen whose Facebook entries often mention encounters with big crocs.
Dogs, horses and even cattle have been taken regularly but these incidents are never officially reported. Three years ago a Facebook video of a four metre saltie snapping up a dog at Injinoo Inlet next to a primary school did the rounds of the internet.
In August 2024, there were two fatal attacks in the far north only days apart.
Again in 2024 a fisherman on the lower Peninsula fought off a large croc which attempted to jump into his boat which he barely managed to keep upright.
There have been many similar incidents which happen regularly but are rarely reported to authorities.
There have been reports of crocs as far south as the Brisbane River. Indeed this publication received several photos of a three metre saltie with a high rise building in the background from a boat operator in 2019. Unfortunately they were subsequently lost in a software malfunction before being posted.
The KAP crocodile management bill will go to a committee for further discussion or amendments before being re-introduced to parliament. Hopefully the LNP will find some backbone to fend off so-called wildlife experts such as the wannabe Steve Irwin reincarnation spruiking in the video.
Michael Binder of Wildlife Unleashed, naturally lives in south east Queensland where the only croc he may ever see is the elusive one in the Brisbane River. https://www.wildlifeunleashed.com.au/
This wildlife warrior playing with a black-headed python should keep his uninformed comments to himself and travel to the north where he could actually get a few lessons about crocs from the blackfellas or he could get first hand experience by taking a swim in the Barron River at Cairns, Ross River at Townsville or a dive on the reef at Lizard Island.
The Barron River not so long ago was frequented by hundreds of kids on weekends or after school swimming safely in any stretch of freshwater or salt. Today a swimmer would not last five minutes.
Cairns News a few years ago offered to chaperone several Labor politicians who claimed not all crocs were dangerous, to take a swim anywhere they liked north of Rockhampton to sort out the non-dangerous salties and we would be on the lookout, from dry land of course.
Strangely none came forward.
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dianedraytonbuckland said – “… It is a monopoly that can literally not be opposed by traditional means…”
Indeed, the appropriate means at this point in the cycle is not the abstract approach of “voting” in utterly compromised, corrupted and fatally rigged games of “consensus” where we entrust the determination of choices and outcomes and policies and trajectories to our ADVERSARIES.
The proper method of remediation at this stage of the game is emphatic and KINETIC, whereby OUR choices are MADE by us and ENFORCED en masse by US.
And that involves lots of sturdy ropes and lamp posts. Sadly for us, it’s quite clearly going to take some more time – about eight years, in fact – for this inconvenient actuality to work it’s way into sufficient heads to motivate the habitually passive and lethargic population to finally get organised, take collective action and get the job done.
Which will inevitably involve a whole lot more suffering and road-kill between now and then, and that’s the sad part, because it didn’t have to be this way given WE outnumber THEM by a thousand to one.
All it takes for evil men to succeed, is for good men to do nothing. And of course, for the most part, that’s exactly what we’ve been doing for decades now.
Apart from casting aside the religion phrase, taking up Isaac’s idea would seem to be realistic.
Don’t worry, In 4 or 5 years maybe 70 or so % of all the Jabed n boosted will be 6 foot under. It’s going to be the best clean out of all the leftards in the swamp and our government services that have gone to sh#t because of impractical f#*k wits.
Unlimited handbags and cat food – what’s the issue ?
Alleged Tyranny, Common Sense, Respect for human lives, insane decisions, never ending destructive ‘new laws’, destructive massive immigration are just a few of the countless deficits / lunatic decisions of those in power.
We need HUGE changes and for the sake of us all, all those people who are going to vote, please DO NOT vote again for lab, libs, greens or teals or you and all of us will regret it for all time.
Remember this >
WHY YOU ARE allegedly NOT GETTING TRUTH FROM ANY MAINSTREAM MEDIA EMPIRES >
“Who Owns the World?” A Small Group of Big Money
By Peter Koenig
Global Research, February 26, 2024
Who Owns the World” is the title of an extraordinary documentary, describing how Big-Big Money controls not only every aspect of your life, but has a stranglehold on every government, the political UN body, as well as every UN agency, and all industries and services of this globe.
These largest investors are BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street.
These same investment groups also control over 90% of the world’s major media.
Even Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is majority owned by BlackRock / Vanguard. It is therefore no miracle that hardly any news penetrates the walls of secrecy about these major shareholders of every aspect of human life and life-related activities and businesses.
They control politicians, geopolitics and military deployments
It is a monopoly that can literally not be opposed by traditional means. They have also invented the “rules-based order” — overruling every international and national law at their will.
They know no limits, no ethics and adhere to no human or human rights standard. POWER is them.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-owns-world-small-group-big-money/5850681
I love Tiadora’s post….It reads that the crocodile is still alive and living in WA! Gave me a laugh…a great blooper!
How insane have we become; a new leftist staffed bureaucracy to control crocodile numbers. Give me a break. Just letting shooters loose with large calibre rifles would save millions, possibly billions, knowing what buffoons would be in charge.
This insanity is what happens to a nation which cast Jesus Christ aside for the religion of Evolution. “He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.”
ROTFL!
I used to wash my baby in the Bloomfield river, because I got told that they killed the last one…A few weeks later they said that they think that another one moved in…She’s still alive & now lives in WA.
I must be also ‘not so smart to impress a girl’ having jumped into a small pool from a great height at Natural Arch, Nunimbar Valley, Queensland. It seems us blokes will do almost anything to impress the sheilas. Now that I’m 70 in two weeks time, impressin’ sheilas is a spent cause.
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