Because:-
1. These Programmes are 50 years overdue (e.g. my late Mother showed and told-me in
1954 at North Ryde in Sydney, how the Broad-Leaved Privets overtook' Buffalo Creek!);officially 9 Privet-Ligustrum sp. are here inAustralia, of which 3 species are already 'geographicallly invasive', and could well be (also) hybridising, to become 'worse';
2. Because the NSW State Government has been too-corrupt for too long, and some
'certain ethics' need to be re-injected back-into 'the system' here (and in Qld as well,
post-Fitzgerald Enquiry and the proven 'rampant-corruption' there, of years ago- that
still lingers in that state's (2012) Sustainable Planning Act - a typo' QLD Act of Parliament , which Act makes 'no mention'whatsoever of the/our remnant natural 'Environment'.!!!!
3. Because the federal and state boffins that 'call the shots'on what they perceive is
the country's 'worst weeds' DO NOT as a general Rule take-into-account a plant's
known TOXICITY, nor the number of toxins known to exist/be manufactured in a/ny
exotic plant species, let alone whether or not any or all of those toxins are 'made' in order to kill fauna that eats their fruit etc, OR whether or not 'cumulative toxicity' is/can be expected, on the basis of veterinary knowledge in international scientific literature
4. Because local Councils across-the-country ARE NOT Taking 'Noxious Weeds' at all seriously, and that many/most Councils' have followed Byron Shire/Gold Coast Shire 'down the tube' by no longer recognising if a 'Declared Plant' is also 'Noxious' anywhere else; and hence, a 'blinkered approach' has evolved(culturally-speaking), with lovey-dovey pictures of all the 'Environmental Weeds' being placed-onto their websites, with beaut' colour pics' of all of the pest plants in-flower(lots of colour'), but 'ZERO INFO' about 'any Caution' for humans or wildlife-lovers as to whether the plants have toxic fruit, toxic bark, toxic leaves, or are seasonally toxic, have 7 or more toxins(e.g. Camphor laurels, Privets),or whether/what wildlife species are 'most at risk'; in brief, none-of any-of-that! Scientific facts have been relegated in-favour of nice-looking websites etc
and (5) Councils have been tardy or not-recognising State Law/s that require Councils
to prepare profesisonally-challenged' Weed Species Management Plans as part and
parcel of the Shire 'Bushland Proetction Scheme/s'; Councils need to move-on-this!
Cross-Reference to KEY Academic Website : www.camphorlaurel.com