Your Say: Ken Grundy, Naracoorte The impact on the farming community resulting from the legislation in WA requiring aboriginal approval prior to basic farm jobs like fencing is of concern to all farmers across the nation. Already similar restrictions apply in parts of Victoria while other States are likely to follow. Concerns range from simple inconvenience to delays and costs for approval and court challenges ahead. All of this when we have always considered Native Title is automatically extinguished when freehold is the recognised form of legal tenure. The meaning of rights attached to private property are being deliberately blurred and the good effort from the WA Farmers CEO, Trevor Whittington to seek legal opinion warrants support. WA farmers have provided over $25000 to start the fund. It is high time the Farmer’s Fighting Fund established by farmers forty years ago for examples just like this case, opened its wallet […]







