The maverick outback grazier using donkeys to regenerate his land | Australian Story

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  @simonhawkins1892 · 1 year ago

  As someone looking in from abroad, every time I watch a documentary about Australia's struggles, it seems that bureaucracy is the biggest barrier to repairing that country

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  @incredible8me · 1 year ago

  WA GOVERNMENT &nbsp;SHOULD BE ASHAMED. <br>HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THE WORTH of this man&apos;s work.

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  @ABCNewsIndepth · 1 year ago

  Thanks to everyone who&apos;s asked for an update. The hearing is over and a decision is pending so things are still up in the air. We&apos;ll update you again as soon as we hear more.

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  @ashmouse · 1 year ago

  Zimbabwean origin farmers are the most tenacious people I&apos;ve ever met

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  @martingomezcardenas1087 · 1 year ago

  From Mexico: Thanks Chris and Chris familiy. Remember: “There are men who fight for one day and are good, there are others who fight for a year and are better, there are those who fight for many years and are very good but there are those who fight all their lives, those are the essential ones” (Bertolt Brecht). I am a biologist, and I know you are in the correct side of human history, and into the correct side of nature. Your work will be followed by me and by many of ecological restoration scientists.

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  @marcydoyle9279 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Get Chris’s legal team to research the term ‘feral’. If any grazier contains a herd, manages numbers and paddock/area rotation, they are ‘domestic’ stock not ‘feral’ stock. Feral animals are those that take up running and breeding with no human input controls, this is not the case for this station’s operations. If all introduced animals such as horses and cattle were feral without distinctions, then so are our country’s ‘Thoroughbred racehorses’ and ‘beef’ production.

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  @richardwilliams1334 · 1 year ago

  Go Chris go go man this world is so short of people like you.<br>This is your 2nd day in court and by know I hope you and your families have managed to turn the tides of this bureaucratic nonsense we in this other world have been forced to live by.<br>Kia ora from NZ.

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  @salivadriven · 1 year ago

  Bravo. As a passionate believer in regenerative farming practice I know how crazy I sound to conventional farmers. Even most environmentalists believe in destroying any flora or fauna not native to the region. The worst I’ve seen is the ripping out and destruction of Willow trees on creek embankments. I’m not highly educated in these topics but have read and seen enough to know this man is on the right track. Fighting the good fight. ‘The role of science is not to defend your hypothesis but to challenge it.” Very true yet very often forgotten.

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  @BundyToo · 1 year ago

  What a great story of a great man. &nbsp;I sincerely hope the bureaucrats can get their head around what a great job and service Chris and his family are doing for the country.

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  @Stokie89 · 1 year ago

  Feral cats are decimating Australia yet the government want to go after this jem of a bloke for having a few donkeys worlds gone mad keep up the great work fighting for nature not just for your children but for every animal that owes its life to your great work ❤

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  @daviddean8198 · 1 year ago

  What an amazing man, what an amazing woman, what a fabulous family! Australia is stronger, better and wealthier for &apos;new settlers&apos; like these folks. Respect.

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  @owenturnbull6424 · 1 year ago

  This story rings a bell for me. In 1991 I drove up to Zimbabwe with a fellow student called John Nicholson to visit his parents on their farm in Southern Zimbabwe. His father had been one of the biggest farmers in Zimbabwe during the bush War. At the end of the war, he had to get rid of his farm or have it appropriated. He retired, but got bored and bought a small farm to keep busy. What impressed me was how open he was to try different farming techniques to look after wildlife and try to help nature. His neighbors may have thought him crazy but what he was doing made sense to me.

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