Both these mobs are hell bent on looking 'green', albeit for different reasons.

In the perfect world SFP will get a few reps in the upper house and be able to moderate the wholesale lock em up attitudes that are currently prevailing.

BTW, interesting first post considering you've been a member for 5 + years, I reckon you probably need to start providing a bit more input than just posting random political messages (albeit one I agree with).

but can anyone share any state policies threatening rec fishing?

All I know of is federal national parks and that state should take over Two Rocks boat ramp and build another ramp somewhere between Mindarie and Two Rocks.

The SFP aren't promoting responsible fishing, they're only promoting unfettered access.

Look at their recent bit of blatant electioneering about how everyone should get a dhu, be they the 3rd, 4th or nth deckie on board?

I might be interested in the SFP if they were promoting stewardship of the resource, not merely access to it and then there is the rest of the baggage they bring with them.

 good pick up big john- I knew someone would comment that this was my first post after years of reading other peoples posts daily.

I'm pretty embarased that my 1st post was political considering I have only ever done a donkey vote for the last 16 years of voting.

but I feel this is a pretty important issue. if the two major parties do lock us out what can we do to reverse the situation. I know for a fact I wont stop fishing and if that means I have to break the law to do it - so beit!

I'm pretty pissed off by the libs and the greens plans to lock us out of our rights to go out and RESPONSIBLY catch a feed of fish for our family.

I dont claim to know much about politics and really dont give two shits about it, they are all a bunch of crooks and are just as bad as each other.

• Are you talking state or federal?  Currently the FEDERAL LABOR govt is implementing a series of national Marine Parks around Australia in federal(More than 3nm offshore) waters. STATE LIBERAL is also announcing state based parks in the southwest and kimberley which run from high tide mark to 3nm where federal waters begin.

dont know exaxctly what labors stance is on turning all of our coastline into marine parks. but I'm lead to believe they too like the libs will want to lock out recreational fishers of every bit of water for no other reason than to satisfy the bleeding hearts of the greens.

I think the only way we can stop this shit happening and ensure we will be ALLOWED to take our kids fishing in the future is to get some people in government who will look out for our rights to fish responsibly. The way I see it is either liberal or labor will get in because its a two horse race but if we can get a few seats for people that support our views we might be able to block wholesale emotion based (non scientific) marine parks and fisher lock outs.

• Labors Federal marine parks will mean that Australia will have over 50% of the worlds marine parks inside our country. http://www.environment.gov.au/marinereserves/
• Your point about it being a two horse race, Federal labor up until last week was in bed with the greens because in the last election they did not win enough seats to govern outright, so they created an unholy alliance with the greens and some independants to attain the balance of power.  The greens have used this to great advantage in pushing for the network of marine reserves, carbon tax, mining tax etc.  If you vote for a minority party and one of the major parties wins, but not outright majority we could well be over a barrel in the future with the same problems.  The greens and labor only last week dissolved their union because a federal election has been called and for other reasons http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/after-the-breakup-parties-are-free-to-be-themselves-20130219-2epk9.html
• Liberal WA Fishers plan: http://www.wa.liberal.org.au/sites/www.wa.liberal.org.au/files/plans/Our%20Plan%20for%20Fisheries.pdf
• 2010 Federal Liberal Election fishers plans(will be probably updated in the lead up to the federal election in sept) http://www.liberal.org.au/sites/default/files/ccd/Fisheries%20Policy.pdf
• Federal Labor Fishing Policy http://www.alp.org.au/federal-government/news/gillard-labor-government-will-support-australia-s-/ about 2/3rds of the way down the doco under 'Fisheries'
• I cant find any state labor fishery docs and I have to go to work in a minute.
• The current state Liberal head of Fisheries is Norman Moore who is retiring in October after the upper house dissolves I think? This has been known for ages, his wife is quite ill and he is leaving politics to spend time with her and her family and turned down a lucrative overseas posting.  This means if state liberals win there will be a cabinet announcement of Colin Barnetts ministers, of which there are a few elected members hovering around the fringe of actual portfolios who could get fisheries.  One of these people in particular is exceptionally well skilled and educated to take on the fisheries portfolio.  That is all for now.

 Good result for the S&f party and Rick Mazza. 

Best result is the message that was sent load and proud to the greens.

Labor = Epic Fail

All good news!!

When I went to vote, some hippy dipshit was trying to hand me a how to vote card..  "you wanna vote for greens?" he says...

I told him where to go!!

sure did!  Here he is trying to hand me a piece of old growth forest full of greenie bullshit.

Gave the Labor losers a serve as well

Proud to announce my voting for the S&F party yesterday.

No way sea- kemp Turnbull to much of a lefty for mine.

We need a hard polly like ' the priest ' to pull back that $260 Billion IOU that the wankers have given us and our kids to go on with.

Hard? More like deranged. At an international level, he would be more of an embarrassment than little johnnie ever was. At least everyone in aus already knows what a bigoted, misogynistic fool, not to mention sycophant to Gina and James he is.

I must say that I despise the libs because they do ``looking after their big mates'', all the while telling you everything is union/labor/greens fault, and when they're not doing that, its more and more social conservatism.

It's a pity that both labor and the green have been doing a piss poor job of doing anything else.