@DanielAndrewsMP @LilyDAmbrosioMP @EnviroVic 2.08.2019 Gavin Butler 1.There’s a ranch in Murrundindi, about 100 kms NW of Melbourne, where high-rolling Chinese tourists are being invited to hunt wombats. The property is owned by Tom Zhou, a wealthy Chinese businessman https://twitter.com/Ingot54/status/1352487188026384385

2. who’s considered “royalty” inside Crown casino’s operations, according to Fairfax. And the Crown is allegedly chauffeuring rich tourists out to the luxury hunting lodge, in stretch limousines, with the promise of shooting native wildlife. "The first thing that should be felt

3. in Australia is to be a wilderness hunter in the mountains of Australia,” reads the company’s website, translated from Mandarin. “Even if you don’t have any shooting experience, it doesn’t matter. “Hares, foxes, wombats, wild ducks… A variety of wild animals"

4.With professional guidance, you will be a great shooter!
These allegations are part of an ongoing & escalating scandal surrounding Crown casino which include claims that high-rolling Chinese tourists were being fast-tracked by Border Force through the visa process, picking up

5. sex workers and getting access to drugs, according to Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young. Hanson-Young condemned the “obscene” behaviour. “Does the government really think that it is appropriate to fast-track Chinese gambling billionaires through our border protection processes

6. so that they can come to Australia and shoot our wildlife?” she added. Crown's Board also claimed that the high-roller “junkets” were not run by Crown, asserting that “they are run by independent operators who arrange for their customers to visit casinos globally.”

7. In these 193 parishes wombats can ONLY be controlled by a landholder/occupier engaged in rural production & their permanent employees” by the use of firearms .” But (AWPC) secretary Eve Kelly suggested that the laws don’t clamp down on hunting for sport. @WWF_Australia