WABBIT SEASON!
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- Published on Friday, 09 March 2012 00:00
Wabbit Season? You'll need a gun licence for that and, well, you're out of luck there...
WIRES NEW POLICY: Native animals in NSW must now suffer slow excruciating deaths
WIRES, not content with controlling every aspect of their own members' wildlife rehabilitation licence and all the training that goes with it, has intervened with the NSW Police to make sure that no wildlife carer in NSW can hold a gun licence for humane purposes (that goes for all carers in NSW - even the ones not in WIRES!)
That's the topic we open up this time.
Ten paces everyone...
More in our series of grievance correspondence
We rely on you here at rW for the content we share with the world. This month we have been furnished with more documents around grievances by one of our readers. It seems you can do what you want when you are on the Board and you will always be protected and forgiven. That's in whistle blowing.
Victoria! Bitter?
Spartacus is a busy boy and well travelled - Sao Tome, Stockholm, Panama, Vienna, Mexico, Murrabit... Soon, in our new section on the different state systems for wildlife rehabilitation, we begin with a brief run-down of the system "south of the border". We'll do our best to explain the basics of the Victorian system. It is a different world down there but some things are just the same...
It is Victoria we're talking about, although you might mistake it for NSW or QLD when you read that much in Victoria has changed recently - cut-backs, back-stabs, and a management in place through dubious arrangements - it seems the carers are dissatisfied with the largest wildlife group in the state - déjà vu! Yes, WIRES finds its way in there too surprisingly - they get around as well, it would seem.
You're welcome "Guest", but the bull? Has to stay outside.
Last time around we announced to you, and celebrated, a WIRES board member's Australia Day award. Allegations were made about this by a "guest" and I want to get the record very very straight.
It was alleged that rW gave out the name and address of the winner. Absolutely wrong - completely false. Gosford City Council posted his name publicly on the internet (where do you think we got the story from?) The link is here: Gosford Council website. It would be part of the terms of acceptance that his award be publicized. It was also in the Central Coast Express-Advocate here: middle left hand side of page 14. Not exactly secret or private information.
As for us giving out someone's address: Rot! Never has happened and never will happen. "Guest" has a track record on this site and I am over letting it slide and being polite - real guests don't lie about the host (in thier own house too). That was the last straw.
Happy Hunting!
Write the minister
What is reformwires?
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I beleive Spartacus is honest and caring and means well. But reform is like givig birth. I t hurts but is worth it.
Democracy is all about stacking. Branch stacking or whatevr. The powr lies with the most votes and the parties stack and loby to get most votes. If you take Spartacus advice to get candidates for your Agm and lobby your branch membrs to be there to vote (stacking) and get the votes that is reform. The side that stacks best gets most votes gets power. It takes work and hurts but it is what happns. This is the good part of Spartacus advice - use the agm and lobby and stack like mad to get what you want. Make sure the candidats you put up got the time and skills and you can trust them. Also trust them to accept the vote. And suport them. Else whoevr is elected gets caled just anothr board member and cut down.
This is the giving birth.
But what happnd here this morning is like puting a rope on the infant and draging if form the womb. You will get it fast but it will be dead. There is no coming back from this. Truths and lies and half truths will be mixed togethr and poeple like the a**shole that Spartacus is fighting will use the chaos and take his own powr and that is a very very bad thing for poeple and animals too. Please Spartacus dont think that fight is over. This is a very very bad man and he has not gone away. Dont turn your back.
It is much harder to rebuild from ruins than to build fresh in the first place. Even if anothr wires or whatever its called rises it will take a long time and it will have a board that some poeple like and others dont and will try to destry and so the cycle will go on.
But with the agms and the power surges of democracy bypassed by this media stuff it is too late. Now comes the deluge.
"If you take Spartacus advice to get candidates for your Agm and lobby your branch membrs to be there to vote (stacking)"
- that is not "stacking" - stacking has connotations!
I DO NOT NOW ADVOCATE, AND HAVE NEVER ADVOCATED, BRANCH STACKING. IF YOU BRANCH STACK THEN YOU ARE AS BAD AS ANYONE ON THE BOARD THAT YOU THINK TO CRITICISE. DO NOT BRANCH STACK! I can’t be any clearer, Guest.
Branch stacking is where you go around deliberately enrolling friends, family or paid others for the express purpose of having them vote for you at an election. Another method, which can be employed simultaneously, is to prevent voter attendance through intimidation or other methods, especially where the voters are likely to vote in a way that does not suit you. THAT IS ILLEGITIMATE CORRUPTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM. I did not once advocate that.
In democracy there is majority rule. The point of an election is to let the majority speak. I am saying that you should, right now, find a good candidate FROM THE CURRENT MEMBERSHIP, and then help that person get elected to the post of WSC Rep. I am advising that you find who IN THE CURRENT MEMBERSHIP would vote for that candidate, convince them of the merits of the candidate if you have to, and make sure you can get every LEGITIMATE vote at that AGM; this may include arranging transport on the night, or proxy votes, etc. ALL LEGAL AND PART OF THE DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM. THAT IS HONEST DEMOCRACY - THAT IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT.
Guest: "It is much harder to rebuild from ruins than to build fresh in the first place."
- Well, That depends on how you raze the child.
Let none admire
That riches grow in Hell; that soyle may best
Deserve the precious bane. And here let those
Who boast in mortal things, and wond’ring tell
Of Babel, and the works of Memphian Kings
Learn how thir greatest Monuments of Fame,
And Strength and Art are easily out-done
By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour
What in an age they with incessant toyle
And hands innumerable scarce perform.
~ Milton - Paradise Lost, Book 1
I think WIRES needs a good restructure - I think the whole concept of a “Board” needs to be thrown out. I think the organisation has something to offer and at least deserves a future for all the good it has done in the past. It deserves to live for the sake of, and in respect to, its parents. It just needs some corrective measures. WIRES needs to be firmly back in the hands of its members and needs to spend 95% of its income on members (that means sick animals); not the reciprocal where 95% of the money is spent on and by managerialist ambulance chasers.
And while we’re on the baby analogy… ever heard of inducement? How would you like WIRES stuck inside you for any longer than was necessary?
We leave where we started Guest - me correcting you. Good luck to you.
Its not just management synergies, training core competencies, benchmarking, worlds best practice guidelines, leading edge skills blahhh MBA crap that makes a good management - its understanding, a deep empathy with the people out their doing the job. The people doing the job are the association - they are WIRES. Its not a corporation selling stuff. We’ll be calling sick animals "customers" next.
Some of the worst run organisations I’ve seen have been run by professional mangers who have sweet FA of an idea what the members go through. The problem with the board is they have been blinded to it - forgot it - and you’d want people who’ve never seen and never knew it in the first place.
Get rid of the board system and give licenses back to individuals.
I’m a SaTANist now?
BUT we fight like grownups the ideeas and not the person. Some things we disagree les than it seems.
I dont agree with spartacus the way he/she is doing things or lots of what he/she says but I think he/she is hontest and tries to be fair.
Just thought id say that.
Politicians have the courtsey to get back to you, and what Doctor has a private business number that wouldn’t be very good for business.
Dont know anything about stat dec. The posum killing was checked by wires, OEH, police and RSPCA and coordintor cleared. Executor gave own money as wellfor special purpose and didnt ask to be named or not to be named. another beat up.
I also suggest there is far more than the stat dec you don’t know about - the “posum” killing, for example.
You may honestly believe “you got a right to privacy”, or you may just be using it as an excuse. In either case, I suggest an animal’s right to life supersedes your right to privacy.
If you are not prepared to give a higher priority to the lives and welfare of native animals, perhaps you should consider resigning from WIRES.
The transparency of their claims is revealed by their willingness to have their names, addresses and contact details published on publicly-accessible sites such as the White Pages, various websites and elsewhere.
For example, one local WIRES member proudly announces on his Facebook page that he currently has 252 “friends” (all of them named). Yet send him an email and he screams that you are invading his privacy, harassing and bullying him and all the other excuses BMC and Board members can invent for avoiding communication.
It has become patently obvious why such tactics are being adopted. The Board and many BMC members are totally unwilling to communicate rationally with their members. One can only wonder if they are capable.
If Board members or other members of WIRES honestly believe that their privacy is being invaded, contrary to some Act of Parliament, then why don’t they “put their money where their mouths are” and initiate legal action?
It would be very interesting to meet them in Court.
If WIRES "management" honestly believes their actions have been honourable and justifiable, why not agree to an independent inquiry into allegations such as:
1. the apparent expenditure of over $20,000 employing a Private Inquiry Agent to investigate evidence which allegedly was "cooked";
2. a BMC member using her position as executor of a will to promote herself as a Major Donor to WIRES;
3. the writing of a Statutory Declaration in the full knowledge that it was false; and
4. the killing of a possum by a WIRES Coordinator against the written advice of a vet.
Until such an inquiry is conducted, the honesty and integrity of the Board and its supporters remains in grave doubt, to the detriment of the many genuine, caring members of WIRES.
She apparently expects me to accept her word. Given my previous experience with her before the CJC and elsewhere, this is not likely.
As far as making threats are concerned, I don’t bother as I prefer not to flag my punches. I challenge you, however, to QUOTE a single threat made in the “heaps and heaps of emails” which I have allegedly sent.
I am willing to back every statement I make and have made with written proof, preferably before an independent inquiry. Are you?
The people who have told me to leave them alone are confined to less than 6 WIRES members, all being cronies of the above Secretary, many of whom joined WIRES about the same time that she rejoined and were “elected” to the BMC at the next AGM.
This apparent branch stacking is consistent with the blatant stacking of a Special General Meeting of the Branch in Jan 2011, called to replace several BMC members (mainly the previous Secretary who had been hounded out of office).
The MNC BMC is apparently blind to reality, or they are totally unaware of what is going on behind their backs. I have received many more emails and phone calls of support from WIRES members than the few mentioned above.
Yes, I am not in WIRES any more, having been “expelled” for attempting to expose the corruption and rottenness in the organisation. That is why I now have my freedom of speech back.
By the way, defamation is defined in my dictionary as “remarks, writing, etc. damaging the good reputation of someone”. I hardly think that applies in this case.
In a seprate report the donations get listed or in a difrent part of the reprt. Thats where shes mentioned in the donations. The 2 are totally seprate. I dont know how much you got to give to be named a major donor. She didnt either. She didnt even know her name would show. She made a donation of her own money got a reciept and thought that was the end of it. She gave $2000. Maybe its over $500 or over $1000. Who knows?
Now because of Bernard who hates her shes being perscuted because she gave a donation. She gave a lot of donations in other years but only like little bits or buying stuff and not getting money back but because it was litle she didnt get named and thats probly much beter. Good lesson if you want to help dont have a member like Bernard in your branch to make you feel like sh*t cause you did it. If you get the reports from the intranet and read them you will find both the bequest and the donation. Proply listed and there but in difrent places. Bernard must of read the reports just to get things to make the donor feel bad even if he had to twist it to do that. Else why would he read the reports at all when none of it was any of his busness?
Where is the WIRES 2011 Annual Report and Audited Accounts? Is it on the WIRES intranet? Really? Where? None of my agents can find it.
WIRES has not published it to its own members and its more than 5 months OVERDUE. Nothing to hide? Are you scared of me? Why? I’m a really lovely person once you get to know me.
WIRES allocates and spends $35,000 per year on auditors - its not pro-bono. You can’t blame the auditors!
Its the branches’ fault now is it? Accounts are centralized at WIRES - ask any Branch treasurer. They can get the figures instantly.
WIRES is required by law to have that annual report and audited accounts tabled at the 2011 AGM. They are required to make it available to the membership. They have not done so. What are they hiding?
As for your other request: Of course - I understand - you’re welcome.