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  1. #16
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    Paul,

    The people that found the wolemi pine were in fact govt workers bush walking in their own time and preserved this tree at no financial benefit for themselves.

    It's easy to bash govt workers. Where do all you people work and how many people have been overcharged by you? None of course.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daz16s View Post
    Paul,

    The people that found the wolemi pine were in fact govt workers bush walking in their own time and preserved this tree at no financial benefit for themselves.

    It's easy to bash govt workers. Where do all you people work and how many people have been overcharged by you? None of course.
    Daz

    Welcome to the forum .

    My understanding was that the person or persons who discovered the Wollemi were CSIRO or similar as they recognised a new species. My point before was it was just as well Artme's group of people didn't find it as being prickly they would have ripped it out.

    On a lighter note, here are my Bunyas in all their prickly splendour .


    Bunya 2.JPGBunya 1.JPG


    Regards
    Paul
    Bushmiller;

    "Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"

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    G'day Daz and welcome to the show!! good to see you here!!

    My point in starting this thread was to illuminate the lack of proper training
    and information provided to many of the employees in what might be loosely
    called peripheral organizations.

    At no time were these employees denigrated as being lazy. They were just ill
    informed and seemingly lacking in commonsense. I would have thought that
    part of their brief should have been to confirm the nature and status of a plant
    species before blithely ripping it from its grasp on terra firma.

    I too worked for government departments in two different states for 42 years.
    Believe me I know about being ill informed and lacking common sense.

    The fault, as has been highlighted by several contributors, lies in the system and
    starts at the political level.

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    How many ill informed twits work for Government organizations...probably just as many as work for private companies. I've worked in the private sector for my entire working life and have come across numerous ill informed twits working for the major oil companies I contract to as well as third party contractors under my supervision.
    Whatever note you blow youre never more than a semitone away from the correct one....(Miles Davis)

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