David Kempton the LNP Member for Cook, said he supports the findings of the Crocodile Committee late last week, which rejected Katter’s proposal to cull crocodiles and encourage trophy hunting as management tools.
For a LNP Member who owes his seat of Cook to Katters Australian Party preferences, he is not being helpful to Mareeba ratepayers about culling crocs or struggling Aboriginal and Islander communities on Cape York which expressed interest in hunting crocs for income.
Kempton said Mareeba posed a specific problem as its waterways are now home to estuarine crocodiles where none previously existed.
Crocodiles, some quite large, are found in popular swimming holes in creeks and rivers, as well as in channels and dams throughout the region, posing a significant risk to humans and livestock.
So far Mr Kempton has got it right but calling for yet another inquiry or survey is a typical Liberal and Labor ruse trying to diffuse community anger about the loss of their waterways.
“Notwithstanding the current crocodile management plan and the committee’s findings, I will continue to advocate for a comprehensive survey of all the tableland waterways, including the Barron and Mitchell Rivers and tributaries, to locate and identify all estuarine crocodiles and remove them pursuant to Zone F of the current management plan,” Mr Kempton said.
Got a problem? Let’s have a survey and at least people think the government is doing something. Tablelands have seen innumerable surveys, inquiries and polls about a new road access to Cairns for years by Labor and Liberal and no longer tolerate this subterfuge.
That strategy does not seem to be working these days as the lefty Liberals in federal parliament found out yesterday when Pauline Hanson forced the woke mob to show their hand on Net Zero.
Most Liberals supported the de-industrialisation of Australia.
During Mr Kempton’s last term in state parliament from 2012-15 crocodiles barely rated a mention but since then crocs have overrun North Queensland, the latest near miss being at Punsand Bay in the northern Cook electorate a week ago where a woman from Albany Island was nearly taken by a five metre croc.
According to locals the woman got into the tinnie just in time then huge croc tried to get into it while she was sheltering, but then the LNP says there is no croc problem, just a “people problem.”
Far Northern Punsand Bay Resort reports there are about 30 smaller crocs in their fresh water dam where a large female has been laying eggs which has now become another ‘no go zone.’
“I would also like to see changes to the regulations allowing landholders to be licenced (with conditions) to remove problem crocodiles where they pose an immediate threat to people, such as at irrigation pump stations.” Mr Kempton said.
“The problem with Katter’s Bill, as I see it, is by simply reducing the population of animals by culling does not solve the problem in the Mareeba district where crocodiles need to be removed not reduced in numbers.”
We ask what is the difference between shooting a croc or removing it to give someone else a problem? When it is shot there is no more problem to anyone. Wildlife rangers have been shooting numerous reptiles because croc farms no longer want them from the wild according to our sources.
Crocs over two metres in length have no commercial value say farmers.
Totemic or spiritual value of wild crocs for Aborigines lies largely in the imagination of dodgy anthropologists who have been trying to re-invent the Aboriginal wheel for decades to serve the financial oligarchy whose plan is to end up in possession of much of the vast native title estate.
Coming from NSW Mr Kempton obviously has no knowledge of the skin-shooting days of the 1970’s which saw in following decades much safer waterways in NQ where people did swim without croc attacks. It is only in the past 20 years that crocs have invaded these swimming holes, rivers and beaches in huge numbers.
The Northern Territory has licenced croc trophy hunting safaris which are making income for Territorians and this management strategy has been successful in reducing numbers of large animals from various waterways.
https://www.australiawidesafaris.com.au/crocodile-harvesting/
Mr Kempton poses a number of other questions about the Crocodile Control and Conservation bill for which it makes provision. He should read it.
“My position on Mareeba is that there should be zero tolerance for all estuarine crocodiles, and they should be removed,” Mr Kempton said.
At what cost and to where we ask?
Can someone answer these questions?
Why does Kempton spend an unusual amount of time on the top floor of the Cairns police station?
Why does Kempton spend an unusual amount of time with duty solicitors who maybe making a fortune representing Aboriginals and teenagers on the merry-go-round of arrests from police?
Why does Kempton spend unusual amounts of time advocating for more and more and more financial support for Duty solicitors for Aboriginals and teenagers on the merry-go-round of committing crimes?
Kempton just secured millions of extra cash for legal services for Aboriginals.
Article in the Cape York Weekly newspaper on the 26 July 2025 below.
https://capeyorkweekly.com.au/cape-justice-group-secures-funding-for-on-country-healing/17233/
Always follow the money people’s and you will find the truth, you may even find a SCUM BAG on the gravy train tooting corruption.
If I lived up there I would organise a harpoon and a chest freezer
Has any one actually seen a salt water croc i around Mareeba, if so how did they get that far up the rivers
ROTFL. Aussies are entrenched in worship of crocs, snakes, flying foxes, sharks, dingoes and any useless creature. It’s a religion that is enforced by the high priests working for the wildlife dept. Let’s keep cuddling crocs and removing them to someplace equally dangerous. Keep talking folks, nothing will happen.
My letter on the croc cull subject made it into the Murdoch-owned Cairns Post Letters column today:
:In regard to the crocodile safety issue that is something of a controversy in the North several things come to mind.
The main role of government-and local councils and police, too-and which is Constitutionally mandated is to protect life and property.
If governments fail in this regard due to policy considerations, especially from the state government’s Health Environment and Innovation Committee’s decisions, then all parties associated with any failure to properly manage the crocs are liable to pay compensation to all and any victims, and can be sued to achieve compensation.
Whilst I live in Victoria, I have an adult son living in Cairns, and, should my son come to grief via a croc attack, I will be the first to sue all parties concerned.”
Bong on, I think.
In correspondence with the Cairns News Editor yesterday, I detailed the liability caper to him, which is the one best kept secret out there, as all state and federal politicians and councilors are subject to that liability because most government departments are corporate (look them up on ABN Lookup, as i have) and the US SEC registrations are well know, so all Members are subject to that commercial liability.
I have just now-11:50 am-phoned David kempton’s office and alerted his staffer to the fact that all parties concerned in refusing the croc cull or acceptable croc management face full commercial liability: i.e.: can get the pants sued off them-if they get chomped by a croc.
I told Kempton’s staffer that my letter on the subject appeared in the Cairns Post newspaper today, July 31, and that he should read it, as he should already know that policy inescapably comes with that liability inescapably attached.
Let’s see if he changes his tune on his previous public statement sand support of the (commercially liable, incorporated) Committee?
Another leftist LNP member , stop voting for them they like labor greens and teals do not care about you.
PREFERENTIAL VOTING HAS DESTROYED AUSTRALIA.
THOSE WHO BENEFIT ARE MANIPULATING VOTE COUNTS.
ONLY FIRST PAST THE POST SHOULD WIN.
ACTUALLY, PARTY POLITICS IS UNLAWFUL.
All the Liberals from Doucheville will be in favour a croc survey. The idea here is restrict the human habitat and range, especially that of the White Australian population in terms of waterways and ocean.
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