Apr 28 2010
Dingoes Face Off DERM
by
Tainted Justice
On the 24th March, DERM lawyers advised the Maryborough Court their investigative team required more time to assess the evidence they collected from a searching raid conducted against Ms Jennifer Parkhurst back in August 2009. This evidence was predominately, Terabytes of stored data.
This evidence was also predominately, a lady’s life of honest, hard and caring work, as a wildlife photographer, author and artist and there are not, terabytes of damaging evidence at all. To be quite frank, DERM have had Ms Parkhurst’s life in their hands for many months going back to August last year and to present to court and ask for more time, was in itself a legal travesty and if reports are correct, we understand even the Magistrate was aghast at such a request.
It also has to be recognised that by DERM having confiscated Ms Parkhurst’s work of some 7 years, they effectively have shut down her ability to conduct herself as her profession determines is necessary to stay viable. A profession that was soon to see the release of her book , a book we understand to have been a beautiful coffee table style presentation of the Fraser Island Dingoes; these Dingoes being the very subject matter, at the heart of allegations, and charges now brought against Ms Parkhurst, by DERM.
Under the cover, of daylight and the release of non-transparent media statements; behind corporate oriented legislation and Ministerial permissions, another reason for another Australian sector of society, should be afraid.
Too many people and so little controls threatens the environment, the fauna, and yes, even the tourists themselves. It is one thing to be drunk and irresponsible, it is another to run down callously and kill a life, be it Dingo, or God forbid, a Child. In such a place as Fraser Island, this threat is now proved real and the Minister claims death by four wheel drive, is a political win for her and her team.
There is an absolute furore going on in New Zealand right now over the vandalism acts of three persons who took to the pneumatic dome of one of New Zealand’s contributions to the Echelon Programme.
The law in respect to animal cruelty and how it is judged and hence becomes a judicial matter and thereby a person’s future, good name and life is decided upon, or not; has just been turned on its head by one very senior RSPCA Prosecuting Inspector.
