A question for Sylvia Else regarding the quarantine ads

Vintage Monk

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Jun 12, 2007, 7:29:04 PM6/12/07

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The government spends millions each year telling us that quarantine
matters (the Steve Irwin ad) and now another ad showing a blokes
suitcase looking like a big grub.

They tell us everything has to be check as some nasty could ruin out
ecosystem and native plant and animal life.

Even on the border security show they spend a lot of the time showing
people getting fines for bringing different food stuffs into the country.

So what do you think about these ships sitting off the Central Coast
(NSW) loading up tens of thousands of litres of water from a foreign
port as ballast then when it comes time for loading in the Port of
Newcastle they dump this water within 2km of the shore. Wouldn't this
water contain pollutants and often sea animals from the port the water
was pumped from? They would then dump this and this water would wash
into the lake systems along the coast.

Do you believe there should be a law against dumping of this ballast so
close to shore? Maybe an environmental body could take samples of this
water as it is being pumped out and check to see what is in it.

Sylvia Else

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Jun 12, 2007, 8:14:35 PM6/12/07

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Vintage Monk wrote:

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Enough with the questions already.

Sylvia.

Kelpie

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Jun 12, 2007, 8:27:55 PM6/12/07

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> The government spends millions each year telling us that quarantine
> matters (the Steve Irwin ad) and now another ad showing a blokes suitcase
> looking like a big grub.

Didn't Hobart waters get a swarm of a starfish that was thought to be pumped
from a foreign ship's ballast water?

Kelpie

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Jun 12, 2007, 8:30:14 PM6/12/07

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"Sylvia Else" <syl...@not.at.this.address> wrote in message
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> Vintage Monk wrote:
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> <snip>
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> Enough with the questions already.

That's a very American turn of phrase isn't it? Are you from the USA? Are
you ant?
>
> Sylvia.

Fathead

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Jun 12, 2007, 8:34:47 PM6/12/07

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Vintage Monk wrote on 13 Jun 2007:

> Do you believe there should be a law against dumping of this
> ballast so close to shore?

What's your proposed alternative?

Vintage Monk

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Jun 12, 2007, 8:29:55 PM6/12/07

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Kelpie wrote:
> "Vintage Monk" <us...@example.com> wrote in message
> news:466f2c5c$0$22420$5a62...@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
>> The government spends millions each year telling us that quarantine
>> matters (the Steve Irwin ad) and now another ad showing a blokes suitcase
>> looking like a big grub.
>
>

> Didn't Hobart Waters

Who is he? Was he the one that wrote Walkabout?

Vintage Monk

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Jun 12, 2007, 8:35:12 PM6/12/07

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Are you asking ant is she is from the US of A or are you asking if Ms
Else is the poster known as ant, PT?

Tom N

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Jun 13, 2007, 3:30:23 AM6/13/07

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Kelpie wrote:

> Didn't Hobart waters get a swarm of a starfish that was thought to be
> pumped from a foreign ship's ballast water?

The Northern Pacific Seastar is established in Tasmania and likely from
there spread to Port Phillip Bay (Vic), both times thought to be via
ballast water.