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Noeline Franklin BSC (Hon), M.Medsc, PTC.
DOG TALES
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF VICTORIA
AT MELBOURNE COMMON LAW DIVISION
No. 6720 of - - 1995
RONALD J. STOCKWELL Plaintiff
v
STATE OF VICTORIA
The claim was for $2 million over wild dogs causing Stockwell's farm and business to fail with the banks vultures claiming the mans possessions and he was sent broke.
The case was on the surface strong, it did however have many flaws that the Victorian government presented as defence to the claim, which tells that you need to have your facts clear and loads of evidence to substantiate the claims for the resources of government being the taxpayers funding them to take you down and clear massive legal fees on the ride.
The bottom line was that Stockwell did win the case, and without his failure to contribute and/or comply in many documented instances in the court case brief, he would have romped in a more substantial claim
Conclusion on Damages
It follows that the plaintiff has proven the following damages -
A. Loss of sheep - $2,068.85
B. Loss in value of wool clip - $3,909.71
C. Any additional expenses attributable to attempting to abate the nuisance and effects of the negligent actions - $319.00
D. Inconvenience, upset and anxiety brought about by commission of wrongful acts - $5,000.00
E. Devaluation of property due to continuation of nuisance and wrongful acts - $48,750.00 TOTAL: $60,047.56
Conclusion
It follows that the plaintiff is entitled to succeed and recover the sum of $60,047.56
Comments
What this proves is that in 2001 the Victorian Supreme Court ruled in favour of the plaintive.
There is no reason why current plaintives of public land wild dog attacks on their live stock cannot prepare individual briefs with view to a class action.
Please download the court document in pdf that details the whole case and is something you should all read to grasp just how the courts look at the claim, the defence and the plaintive arguments.
Download here - http://www.k9.thebudgetbarn.com/pdf/stockwell-v-victoria.pdf
Experts NOW - Admit Time-Bomb Truth
In 2005 SOS-NEWS run a story about the incredible signifigance to the health and well-being of the Australian public in respect of the threat that the Hydatids disease (also known as Hydatidosis or echinococcosis) poses to us all.This three year old story not only highlighted the disease, the risks it posed, the spread, but also the culpable intransigence of those holding the power and knowledge, directly and indirectly, displayed towards such an insidious contagion and the possible effects it could have on you and your family. Since the release of this story we have run others on the same subject from time to time and finally in an article run by the Sydney Morning Herald, we see the experts speaking out. Not just giving some credence to our 2005 story, but in fact enhancing it to the point that it should strike terror into the heart of every parent at the very least.
First we want you all to read the original story, for when this was run, our 8,000 online computers was miniscule compared to what it is today, with most not having read it and those that have, not remembering. Read it carefully, for the devil is in the detail and it is a devil that every parent should know.
We apologise that the link url in this story does not work, but it did at the time of the release and it is obvious that the government decided to change its address after our release. Hmmmm? We leave it as it was posted.
SOS-NEWS September 2005
CAN THE DINGO KILL YOUR BABY
Dishonesty is an issue that we all have to be aware of every day in our lives and the rhetorical dishonesty of politicians is something that we have all come to accept as normal whilst we endeavour to teach our children the exact opposite.There are questions that are still to be answered re the 2003 holocaust that destroyed our Australian Alps. Answers of a truthful nature that Politicians like Jon Stanhope have attempted to deny the Australian public, Phil Koperberg's NSW Rural Fire Service failing to give evidence at the Senate inquiry. Bob Carr's Coronial Inquiry having it's terms of reference stymied. Steve Brack's Government having only an in house Inquiry, to all the above, I ask WHY?SOS has been on the wild dog issue for quite some time now and with every good reason. The wild dogs (here after called dingoes, as that's what they are) of our Australian bushlands and Alpine areas have reached plague proportions and the very Bureaucracies that are funded to the tune of millions upon millions of dollars have culpably ignored the situation. They have fed the public and landholders alike with a diatribe of spin and out right lies in respect to the dingo problem. Further, the Radical Green Necks and the like, especially the Colong Foundation organisation, have actually lobbied successfully that the dingo is more important to Australia than our Farmers lives and livelihood and by so doing have inferred that you, plus your children's lives, are less important than the quoll population.
Most of the above have publicly, legislatively and tangibly attacked the wild heritage horses of our Crown lands as a feral animal to be eradicated to extinction. For what reason? None that hold any veracity, other than in the agenda driven minds of most of the above mentioned.
City folk who read this I can hear saying, "We all know this. It is a rural problem that the farmers are going to have to deal with. Mr Debus & Tony Flemming are on the job and doing what they can, but it is a country issue. What's new about that?"
Well here's what's not new to Bob Debus, Tony Flemming, Jon Stanhope, Mr Thwaites and all the other Environmental Ministries, both Federal and State, and this issue affects you guys in the Cities across this Nation.
" Here's where you finally learn that the issues of the land have a direct and/or indirect impact on all lives in Australia. "
Here's where the very economy of this Nation is and could further be affected. "
Here is where, Yes! That's you Mum & Dad, where the very life of your children and grand-children, along with your own life is very much at dire risk. A risk that all these politicians and bureaucrats are well aware of. " Where the farmers have been well aware of but have been unable to find a voice to tell what they know. " Where the media have been strangely silent on this issue of national importance. " Where the Colong Foundation with its power and views is as accountable as any other. "
Here is where those responsible for this lack of duty of care become answerable to their dangerous incompetence, and if it is found that there is a link in any way to commercial gain from this culture of deceit, criminal charges should be laid. Not just with the organisations, but with the heads of these Ministries and Organisations personally.
You Mum's and Dads spend many hard earned dollars on inoculating your children against the measles and many other illness and diseases. Governments and health departments get jittery over an outbreak of meningococcal disease.
Our Government has spent millions on preparing for the pandemic of the bird flu H5N1, which has yet to materialise in Australia, albeit it is a serious threat. A virus that when it affects birds in other countries, Australia expects those domestic flocks to be destroyed in an attempt to thwart the transitional mutation of the disease from bird to human.
Why were the Australian Alps seemingly allowed to burn on such a vast scale when every experienced fire fighter was crying out to nip it in the bud early and in most cases could have done so?
Was it because some wished it to turn into an unstoppable conflagration of our mountains, from border to border and east to west? We can't answer this question and do not expect anything but spin from those that have the answers. We will leave you all with the question and your individual ability to come to your own conclusions.
One of the most terrible diseases that both Tasmania and New Zealand have been successful in eradicating to 99%, is in endemic proportions throughout our National Parks. This disease is easily transmittable to humans, the worms eggs are able to survive unattended on the ground for many months and some times up to two years after initial deposit.
We are talking about "HYDADITS", a worm parasite that although found in domestic stock is carried in a host manner by dogs and also carried and transmitted by almost all Dingoes in Australia. Bob Debus and, Colong Foundation, CSIRO, NPWS, and the DES of Vica are all aware of this most dangerous of situations.
It once was a reportable disease, but for what ever reason [we believe that the expected increase in human affliction of the Hydatids worm] the mandatory requirement to report this disease was dropped in 2001 and hence no real statistical data will be readily available to monitor this expected increase. Why was this mandatory reporting dropped?
This disease is going to rear its head in later years and most of it will be attributable to the mismanagement of the Dingo.
Let us tell you a little bit about Hydatids.
Hydatid disease (also known as hydatidosis or echinococcosis) is caused by a tapeworm which infects dogs, dingoes and foxes. At its intermediate stage, it forms cysts in the internal organs, especially livers and lungs, of a number of animals, including humans. In humans, the disease is so serious that it requires surgery for treatment.
Hydatid disease also causes losses in livestock with the downgrading of edible meat by-products because of the presence of the hydatid cysts.
Control of hydatid disease involves the elimination of the hydatid tapeworm from dogs. By carrying out the recommended control measures, the infection of dogs with the tapeworm can be prevented, and the spread of the disease to other animals, including humans, reduced. With better control of hydatid disease in domestic livestock and dogs, it is the hydatid cycle that occurs in wildlife which is becoming relatively more important as a threat to human health.
In Australia, cystic hydatid disease (CHD) is caused by the unilocular hydatid tapeworm, Echinococcus granulosus, which infects primarily the dog and the dingo.
Larval cysts, resulting from ingesting hydatid eggs released from an infected dog, dingo or fox, can develop in humans, sheep, cattle, goats, deer, horses, pigs, camels, kangaroos, wallabies and wombats.
In Australia, hydatid cysts have not been reported in alpacas, and have only rarely been reported in horses.
Dingoes usually become infected by eating kangaroos or wallabies carrying cysts. The eggs shed in the faeces of these dogs contaminate areas grazed by sheep or cattle, causing them to be infected with cysts. In comparison with the dingoes, very few foxes are likely to be infected and their tapeworm burdens are usually low (<50 worms), so their contamination of pastures will be insignificant in the overall disease pattern.
Cysts in accidental intermediate hosts, such as feral pigs, cattle and humans, are usually not fertile and/or not involved in the maintenance of the life cycle (i.e. a 'dead end' host). " In Australia, only two genotypes, G1 (common sheep strain) and G2 (Tasmanian sheep strain), have been recorded, but on the Australian mainland, only G1 occurs.
Cattle in Australia are frequently infected with hydatid cysts, but in all cases these are the common sheep strain (G1) and the cysts are usually not fertile.
A study of hospital records in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory covering the period 1987-92 found: In the 5 year period covered by the study, 321 patients were treated in NSW and ACT hospitals, but only 17 of these cases had been notified. Of these, 195 were new cases and 117 recurrent cases. The age at which hydatids was found varied depending upon the place of birth.
Most Australian-born patients were 31-40 years of age, whereas those born outside Australia were mostly 41-50 years of age. Because the disease appears as a result of the slow growth of the cyst, infection picked up in childhood often does not appear until later. However, there is evidence that a proportion of new infections would have occurred as adults, so no person should consider themselves immune from this disease.
An earlier study of the disease in humans found that the average stay in hospital for hydatid disease patients was 23 days. Children are the group at greatest risk of hydatid infection because of their close association with dogs and their sometimes casual approach to personal hygiene. Any dog that has had access to fresh offal, (This the staple diet of Dingoes) including livers from butchers, could be infected with this tapeworm.
Hydatids in humans is a serious disease. The formation of cysts in the body is always dangerous and their surgical removal is never straightforward. A major concern during surgery to remove cysts is that brood capsules can float free within the cyst. If a cyst ruptures, the brood capsules can spread through the body and secondary cysts can grow wherever they come to rest. This contributes to the high level of recurrence (37.5% of patients). Deaths from hydatid disease still occur both before and after surgery.The real tragedy of hydatid disease is that it happens at all, as the infection can result only from swallowing eggs released from an infected dog, dingo or fox. On mainland Australia, the dingo, and, to a very minor extent, the fox provide alternative hosts, and so the dingo- wallaby cycle can continue the infection. Only in those areas where the infection results solely from contamination by dingoes will there be little impact on the disease.
So what are we telling you?(1) Dingoes are the Country's largest and most prolific contagious intermediate host of the Hydatids worm.
(2) Dingoes are prevalent right up to the door step of Sydney, Toowoomba, Canberra, Melbourne and every other Eastern seaboard country town in Australia, especially the NSW east coast.
(3) The effects of being afflicted with Hydatids may not become evident for some 20 years after contamination.
(4) If you have been and/or intend to visit any of our National Parks in NSW, Queensland, Victoria, Canberra, the surrounding areas of such parks and fail to conduct a strict regimen of hygiene for yourself and your children, you may very well ingest this Hydatids sentence and suffer the consequences.
(5) It is possible for you to carry this disease back to your home on a blanket you laid down for a picnic and shake it onto your front lawn for domestic dogs in the city to carry home to neighbouring families.
(6) Mulch the dog droppings on your front lawn with the lawn mower when they are dry and the dust flies. What is in that dog dropping that is now airborne? (7) It is possible for you to put your previously used picnic blanket on your child's bed and have the disease ingested by your child in so doing.
(8) It is very possible to die from this Hydatids disease.
(9) Our National Parks are riddled with Hydatids and it is possibly the most potentially significant health problem on a National scale that this country currently faces.
(10) The Dingo/Wild Dog is the reason that this disease poses such a threat to every member of our community, city and country folk alike.
(11) The life span of the eggs of this Hydatid Worm lasts for months and can be carried to your very child play centre within hours of a visitor to our National Parks returning home by simply having the eggs attached to your clothing, or shoes that were worn on your trip to the Park and wearing the same shoes as you drop your toddlers off on the Monday.
(12) The Hydatids egg will even survive in water.
(13) Our Authorities, especially our Environmental Ministers, our National Parks Officers, our radical Green Necks are all aware of these possibilities.
(14) Bob Debus stopped the aerial baiting of Dingoes, because the Colong Foundation and others were concerned about the quoll.
(15) A dingo and it's pack will travel up to 80 kilometres in a 24 hr period and defecate at least once in that period, possibly two or three times.
The recommended method of disposing of infected dog droppings is to either deeply bury the faeces, or BURN it.
With Hydatids possibly being the most serious disease infecting all areas of Eastern Australia today by any feral animal, with the potential to infect thousands of human beings unwittingly, why is our NPWS spending $30,000,000 on buying another 80,000 hectares of well managed private lands? Especially when it has completely and culpably ignored the immense danger you and your children could be facing, or worse already be infected and just waiting for the time-bomb to explode.
Why are they hounding our heritage Brumbys as the devil?
The Dingo is a scourge to our native fauna, our farming community and to our city folk alike and your Politicians like Bob Debus, CSIRO scientists, NPWS services under Tony Fleming, Colong Foundation members, Victorian Department of Environment and Sustainability Mr Thwaites, Environment Minister of the ACT Jon Stanhope, Federal Environment Ministries, they all know this dreadful risk is a reality.
Is this the reason the Australian Alps were allowed to burn so freely? Is this their covert way of attempting to solve one of the biggest and most potentially dangerous medical risks this country will have to face in the first hundred years of the 21st century? Is this one of the reasons Bob Carr has done a runner? Will you or a loved one become ill from this disease some years down the track with time against you and no real ability to determine when and how you became infected with this disease?
We ask, is the sabre rattling about our heritage brumbies a Paul Keating style smoke screen to cover the real problem? When the Debus Ministry rides on the back of it's advisors and sprouts absolute crap in relation to the disease our healthy brumbies carry, is this, when considered with the above, just another political lie/spin? " Is the Bob Debus edict to stop aerial baiting the dingo to save the quolls, when this was already known to be flawed science, at the possible expense to a child's life, anything short of culpable? "
Is the colossal expense by Bob Carr and Bob Debus's maniacal drive to spend 100's of millions of dollars buying up land and making more National Parks for infection anything short of criminal? "
Is the silence on this issue by both the RLPB and the NPWS and the DES anything other than tacit consent by acquiescence at the least and further, culpability at the worst? "
Is the taking of such an insidious disease off the mandatory reporting list nothing short of an attempt to cover up an expected increase in infections? "
Is the proof of both New Zealand and Tasmania's ability to eradicate this disease, not proof positive that the dingo is without doubt the biggest, meanest and most deadliest single risk to the general Australian population? Neither of these territories have either the dingo, or the fox, with the fox being an extremely minor player in the host animal.
Just how many future lives would the $30,000,000 spent on Yanga Station have saved from heartache, trauma, surgery and possible death, if it had been spent eradicating the dingo?
The NPWS are out of control, Bob Debus and his Ministry need cleansing from the top down and so does every other environmental ministry around the country which has failed to meet this dire situation to the public of Australia that they are paid handsomely to serve.
Is it any wonder that the Brown Shirts (rangers)are desperate to keep us all from having recreational activities in our National Parks, which are now as dangerous as a nuclear power stations waste site.
If you think this story is presented to scare you, you're right. The very sad part about all of this, it's true. So if you are inclined to check a few facts about this Hydatids danger, then I suggest you look at two things in the first instance other than this story. They are:
(a) read the table on the population explosion capabilities of the dingo as depicted in the SOS Issue, dated the 14th Sept.
(b) Enter this site, www.agric.nsw.gov.au/reader/5436 which will take you to one of many, many sites available on the Hydatids tapeworm. We send you to this site first being that this is the NSW Government's Department of Primary Industry's expose on the very matter in question, proving beyond a shadow of doubt our findings and story, but confirmation that Bob Debus and all his colleagues around the nation must be well aware of this incredible potential for catastrophe, yet they are comfortable to inhibit the control of the dingo in many ways.At this point I return you to the very first paragraph in this story:
"Dishonesty is an issue that we all have to be aware of every day in our lives and the rhetorical dishonesty of politicians is something that we have all come to accept as normal whilst we endeavour to teach our children the exact opposite."
Ignore this story at your own peril, as you don't even have to leave the city precincts and the Bob Carr and Bob Debus national parks could well be the cause for your demise.Demand action now to rid our mountains of the Dingo/Wild dog yesterday. Stop the purchase of Yanga Station for $30,000,000 and put this money into dog eradication programs until the wild dog is only a faint memory to all but the deepest of terrain travellers. This animal must go.
The H5N1 bird flu might get here, but Hydatids was here, is here and is a massive growing threat of becoming an epidemic in time to come, all because your child come after the spotted tailed quoll in Politician and Green Necks eyes, and we might point out that the only threat to the quoll or its ilk, is the dingo and the fox.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Brumbyy with 2Ys
SOS InvestigatorDeath In Editors Family
Assignments are not always given from the SOS SNOWYGATE office like this story returned by one of our investigators. I had no idea he was working on this dreadful disease.
In the early 1980's my Uncle passed away and the family doctor diagnosed the cause of death was hydatids. Working on our farm around the Yea area of Victoria in the late 1950,s we had our share of feral animals including foxes and wild dogs who are carriers of this disease but to substantiate just how and where my uncle contracted it can only be supposition. However his whole life was on that farm with a yearly visit to the big smoke so you do not need to be a genius to fathom out the source..
Mal (Editor)
Now we return to today, early 2008 and the reporting of two so called experts in the field of Zoonosis.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Dog of a tapeworm infection is creeping up againArjun Ramachandran
February 21, 2008Local experts agree the incidence of zoonoses - diseases transmitted from animals to humans - in Australia is low. But a small tapeworm could be what one expert calls a ticking time-bomb.
Incidence of hydatid disease in Australia is rising, says Dr Rebecca Traub, a lecturer in veterinary public health at the University of Queensland. "Children living in rural communities where offal from hunted kangaroos or culled sheep is fed to the farm dog are at increased risk of acquiring hydatid disease," she says.
"Community education programs emphasising the danger of feeding offal to farm dogs in the 1960s proved highly successful in reducing the incidence … however, recent trends indicate that human infection may be on the rise again due to dropping standards of compliance."
Figures are unavailable because health authorities in most states do not report incidences of zoonosis, Traub says.
Hydatid disease, or Echinococcus granulosus, is caused by a tapeworm in dogs, dingoes and foxes. Once in humans, the parasite's progression can be a lottery. In some, the body fights the foreign parasite so well that the cyst does not grow. But in others the cysts grow and grow, putting pressure on organs and blood vessels - which requires surgery to treat it.
People typically became infected as children, but it is not until they reach their 30s or 40s that the cysts grow to such an extent that the disease is detected, Traub says.
Dr David Jenkins, a parasitologist specialising in hydatid disease, says there is a huge infected "wildlife reservoir" of the disease in Australia. "Amongst wild dingoes there is 100 per cent infection of hydatid tape worms," he says. "It's potentially a ticking time-bomb."
Kangaroos and sheep, cows, pigs and goats - like humans - can also become infected through eggs in the canine's faeces. Is there any danger for humans in eating kangaroo, or offal?
"We don't get infected from eating hydatid cysts [so cooking the meat has no effect on hydatid transmission] … but I wouldn't want to be eating raw anything because of other diseases which range from parasitic to bacterial," Traub says.
In urban areas zoonoses are rare, says Dr Alison Kesson, a pediatrics infectious disease consultant at the Children's Hospital, Westmead. Kesson says that with the city children she treats it is mostly flea and animal bites.
The low incidence of zoonoses in Australia, apart from in some indigenous communities, is due to strong agricultural standards. "Firstly, our dogs and cats have high standards of veterinary attention available, are well cared for and routinely de-wormed for parasites that may be transmitted to humans," Traub says.
"Moreover, council regulations stipulate removing dog faeces from public places, which significantly reduces environmental contamination with parasite ova." Sewage and food safety standards are also high, she says.
While some infections can be treated with antiprotozoal drugs, a common misconception is that worming children prevents infection from animals. "Worming is effective for parasites transmitted between humans only, for example for pinworm," Traub says. The best method of prevention is to regularly worm pets and to practise good hygiene.
End excerpt.
What is most important in this latest ' SMH story, is the fluff over by expert opinion that needs to be at least contested.
Dr Rebecca Traub says that rural children are mostly at risk because of offal feeding re-occurring. Farmers and rural folk are well aware of the risks Traub talks about and it is not a relaxing of compliance that places rural folk at greater risk at all, it is the high presence of wild dogs and their faeces left EVERWHERE. Paddocks, lawns, town and city parks and SCHOOL Playgrounds. Dr David Jenkins, a parasitologist specialising in hydatid disease, says there is a huge infected "wildlife reservoir" of the disease in Australia. "Amongst wild dingoes there is 100 per cent infection of hydatid tape worms," he says. "It's potentially a ticking time-bomb."
Dr Traub also fails to accept that the removal of this disease from the mandatory reporting list placed the infected into the medical records shadows, but as it becomes a tumor growing problem that can no longer be swept under the hospital beds, the increasing incidence is again seeing the light of day.
Dr Traub has to be very well aware that this disease was removed from the madatory reporting list and her failure to publicly recognise this, speaks reams about the spin being applied in this reported statement of hers.
In urban areas zoonoses are rare, says Dr Alison Kesson, a pediatrics infectious disease consultant at the Children's Hospital, Westmead. Kesson says that with the city children she treats it is mostly flea and animal bites. This little piece clearly shows that the experts are either right out of touch with the realities of this disease and its reason for being, or are deep in the pockets of the agenda driven bureaucrats who wish this to disappear, for your children’s future welfare is obviously of no concern to them. To qualify this statement we have to go no further than Dr Rebecca Trabs own reported statement of;
People typically became infected as children, but it is not until they reach their 30s or 40s that the cysts grow to such an extent that the disease is detected, Traub says.
It is quite fair to surmise, (even though good doctors when confronted with such summation will protest with indignation,) Dr Kesson is not looking for this insidious disease at all, for there are no symptoms of indication and a sub-conscious belief by Doctors that the disease is metropolitan rare and hence not a consideration. Not for a few decades anyway.
The fact that this is at least being slightly discussed in the public forum is a sign, albeit so slight, that there is movement at the Hydatids Station so to speak. It is also a sign that the rural folk and the farmer is being set up as the culprit in the Phoenix rising of a possible death sentence disease, when in fact nothing can be further from the truth.
Governments, Environment Ministers, Bureaucrats, National Parks & Wildlife Services and agenda drive Greenie Drivel, are the real and only culprits. For in their mystical environmental stances to achieve wealth, power, votes and serve corporate agendas by protecting the exponentially increasing cur of a wild-dog species touchy, touchy feel goodly named, the Dingo, this Nation is intentionally going to assign many adults of the future to suffer horrendous medical problems by intentionally allowing today’s children to ingest the DINGO spread disease;
“HYDATIDOSIS”
"Amongst wild dingoes there is 100 per cent infectionof hydatid tape worms," he says
"It's potentially a ticking time-bomb."
