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      <title>Mr. Maurice Grefe [Signature #204]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17752596?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Maurice Grefe, Bronx, New York, United States of America<p>These yabby traps are dangerous to wildlife. There must be a better way.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:04:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms Kim Laigne-Stuart [Signature #203]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms Kim Laigne-Stuart, Quaama, NSW]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 2 Apr 2014 04:41:25 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Cathy Welsford [Signature #202]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Cathy Welsford<p>Please require sellers to inform buyers of the dangers inherent in opera house style ya by traps.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 2 Apr 2014 02:49:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Angie Smith [Signature #201]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Angie Smith, Armidale, NSW<p>Ban opera house yabbie traps that drown Australian water mammals.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Apr 2014 06:27:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Isha Lodhi [Signature #200]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16689145?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Ms Isha Lodhi, Pakistan<p>It is not our (human) right to kill animals. Endangered species like the platypus have to be given full protection immediately to try to compensate for the damage humans have done to this world.</p>

<p>Please take measures to ensure that the killing, abuse and torture of animals is stopped. And stopped right now. We cannot allow more animals to suffer because of us.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:50:47 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Muriel Brookfield [Signature #199]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Muriel Brookfield, Cook, ACT<p>We have responsibility to protect platypus population</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2013 02:40:12 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #198]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15987867?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous<p>Platypus are the worlds most unique mammal, don&#039;t let them die in yabby traps</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 05:38:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Mia Georgiou [Signature #197]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Mia Georgiou, Canberra, ACT, Australia<p>STOP YABBY TRAPS!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2013 10:19:12 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #196]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, ACT<p>I&#039;m sure the majority of people would rather know beforehand the risks these traps pose to other species, than to find out when they themselves have been the cause of the death of one of these beautiful creatures.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2013 05:11:28 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Sandra Henderson [Signature #195]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Sandra Henderson, Wanniassa, ACT, Australia<p>Please help educate those who are ignorant of the dangers these traps pose</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 8 Oct 2013 01:24:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Beatrix Janek-Oefelein [Signature #194]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Beatrix Janek-Oefelein, Doreen, Victoria<p>Stop selling yabbi traps that drowning our platypus<br />
And turtles and waterbirds.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 8 Oct 2013 12:42:09 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Judith Hopwood [Signature #193]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Judith Hopwood, Australia<p>Professor Iain Stewart in &#039;Rise of the Continents&#039; repeatedly claims that not many people have seen the platypus. Without attention to education in the use of these traps it becomes less likely that anyone will. The quiet demise of the water rat,  Hydromys chrysogaster, is equally disturbing.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:53:45 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Ann Edwards [Signature #192]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Ann Edwards, Wanniassa, ACT, Australia<p>These should not be used in the ACT.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 8 Oct 2013 03:41:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Alastair Smith [Signature #191]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Alastair Smith, Garran, ACT, Australia<p>Please legislate to stop this needless killing of our native wildlife</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 8 Oct 2013 12:59:32 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Anne-Marie Dickson [Signature #190]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Anne-Marie Dickson, Kaleen, ACT, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 11:50:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Karen Betts [Signature #189]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Karen Betts<p>This is an unacceptable practice and should not be allowed to continue unabated.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:10:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr Simon Cox [Signature #188]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr Simon Cox<p>Please sense on this issue.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 09:22:31 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Jennifer Rothschild [Signature #187]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jennifer Rothschild, NSW, Australia<p>Yabby traps are a real danger to aquatic animals.  Yabbies themselves are becoming endangered.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 09:04:02 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Wendy Whitham [Signature #186]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Wendy Whitham, Hawker, ACT, Australia<p>We need to look after platypus and this is a very sensible way to help.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 08:55:06 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Mary Bomford [Signature #185]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Mary Bomford, CANBERRA, ACT, Australia<p>Yabby traps pose an unacceptable risk to platypus. Their use needs to be better regulated. Education is essential for those who buy or use them.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 08:16:29 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Anonymous [Signature #184]</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:53:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Philip Veerman [Signature #183]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Philip Veerman, Kambah, ACT, Australia<p>Of course this should be done. Then there is the real problem not just of advice but ensuring that the right thing is actually done, to hugely reduce this problem.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:28:25 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Eleanor Sobey [Signature #182]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Eleanor Sobey, Australia<p>The health of our riparian ecosystems has been under increasing pressure over recent decades. Ensuring through legislation that yabby traps are used only when appropriate is an important element in protecting our waterways for future generations.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 06:38:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Judy Middlebrook [Signature #181]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Judy Middlebrook, Uriarra Village, ACT, Australia<p>Please ban the sale of these illegal traps and save our wildlife.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 06:28:57 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Tenielle Clinch [Signature #180]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Tenielle Clinch]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 06:16:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Mark Clayton [Signature #179]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Mark Clayton<p>Ban Opera House traps</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 05:48:35 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Laura Johnson [Signature #178]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15965101?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Miss Laura Johnson, Acton, ACT, Australia<p>I support the petition for the better regulation of yabby trap use in the ACT.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 05:18:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs Lia Battisson [Signature #177]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15965079?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[mrs Lia Battisson<p>our rivers and waterways are already under enough stress!  Let&#039;s do what we can to reduce human impact on all of our creatures, but especially our iconic platypus.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 05:11:34 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Amelia Graham [Signature #176]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15961896?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Amelia Graham, Sa, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 05:18:20 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Greg Downing [Signature #175]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15961195?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr Greg Downing, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Oct 2013 12:57:16 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Susan Lawler [Signature #174]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15960142?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Dr Susan Lawler<p>As a researcher on freshwater crayfish I often find the opera house nets in use where they can cause harm.  Anything we can do to better educate people about the dangers of these traps would be great.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 6 Oct 2013 04:41:44 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Anu Datta [Signature #173]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Anu Datta, Australia<p>Please protect our unique wildlife.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 6 Oct 2013 04:18:19 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Fiona Hamer [Signature #172]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Fiona Hamer, Mullion, NSW, Australia<p>Platypus are so shy, it&#039;s a shame to have them seen so frequently as dead bodies in traps.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 6 Oct 2013 07:42:43 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Craig Moritz [Signature #171]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Craig Moritz, Mullion, NSW, Australia<p>Platypus are unique animals.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 6 Oct 2013 07:38:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Alison Ryan [Signature #170]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15952253?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Ms Alison Ryan, Chisholm, Act, Australia<p>Let&#039;s help the platypus</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 5 Oct 2013 01:04:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Rusty Woodward [Signature #169]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Rusty Woodward, Wanniassa, ACT, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 4 Oct 2013 11:43:24 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #168]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous<p>Ban yabby traps</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Oct 2013 11:56:22 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Cate Huntington [Signature #167]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Cate Huntington, Australia<p>I strongly support this petition.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Oct 2013 09:14:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Steve Ridgway [Signature #166]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Steve Ridgway, Kambah, ACT, Australia<p>Ban sales of these traps. Sales of illegal drugs are banned and any illegal drugs are confiscated. Why not for these traps too?</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:56:44 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Kerri Muller [Signature #165]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Kerri Muller, Australia<p>NSW and Act are so lucky to still have platypus that are now almost extinct in some states (e.g. SA). Please act to ensure their survival.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:51:44 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Anonymous [Signature #164]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Hughes, ACT<p>fully support banning of sale of these traps</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:43:53 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Eric Traise [Signature #163]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15948899?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr Eric Traise<p>We need to do simple and sensible things to help protect our native species.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:23:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr aaron matsinos [Signature #162]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr aaron matsinos<p>We, the undersigned, call upon the ACT and NSW governments to enact, as a matter of urgency, regulations to require that any person selling yabby traps, whether in-store or on-line, be required to advise the buyer of the rules pertaining to their use and the risks they pose to wildlife such as platypus, turtles, water rats and diving birds.</p>

<p>this is a logical and sensible policy - please enact it.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:01:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr mick ansell [Signature #161]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15948821?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[mr mick ansell, kalaru, New South Wales, Australia<p>disgusted this is still allowed to happen when it could easily be avoided</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:42:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Alex Blanden [Signature #160]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15948788?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr Alex Blanden<p>I support the control of the sale and distribution of these traps.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:17:22 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Simon Kaminskas [Signature #159]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Simon Kaminskas, NARRABUNDAH, ACT, Australia<p>The sooner these nets are banned from sale the better!!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:01:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Marj Russell [Signature #158]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Marj Russell, Phillip, ACT, Australia<p>as we destroy each speceis we get closer to our own demise we are custodians of this planet and we need to get real about saving it! and us</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Oct 2013 06:04:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Jennifer Andrew [Signature #157]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Jennifer Andrew<p>Please, this is a no-brainer! For a small jurisdiction, such steps should be easy and we can lead the way.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Oct 2013 05:53:37 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr. Chris Fulton [Signature #156]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15948572?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Dr. Chris Fulton, Australia<p>An important initiative that should be made effective ASAP.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Oct 2013 05:32:44 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Alan Couch [Signature #155]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Alan Couch, Australia<p>This is an important public education initiative.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Oct 2013 05:32:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Kerri Dalziel [Signature #154]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Kerri Dalziel, Murtoa, Victoria, Australia<p>We, the undersigned, call upon the ACT and NSW governments to enact, as a matter of urgency, regulations to require that any person selling yabby traps, whether in-store or on-line, be required to advise the buyer of the rules pertaining to their use and the risks they pose to wildlife such as platypus, turtles, water rats and diving birds.  Also, The sale of enclosed yabby traps should be restricted to those that can produce a recreational fishing license.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:40:48 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Libby McIntyre [Signature #153]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15787787?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Ms Libby McIntyre, Dubbo, NSW<p>It is unacceptable to have these opera house traps for sale anywhere</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:50:48 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Alister Jack [Signature #152]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Alister Jack, Gaven, QLD, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Sep 2013 08:37:06 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Jennifer Humphrey [Signature #151]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Jennifer Humphrey, Croydon Hills, VIC, Australia<p>More information and knowledge must be instilled into the public ,surrounding the damage these traps can do.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Sep 2013 07:50:58 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Anonymous [Signature #150]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Sanctuary Point, NSW, Australia<p>In this day and age there is no call for this to happen. Team Water Rats recognises the need to put a stop to this and will be promoting the cause with gusto. We ALL need to take better care of both our environment as well as the creatures that also call it home.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Brett Summers, parkes, nsw, Australia<p>Please stop this</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Sep 2013 02:00:59 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Stephen Crowe [Signature #148]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Stephen Crowe, Isaacs, ACT, Australia<p>Please ban opera house traps</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 4 Sep 2013 05:40:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Gail Neumann [Signature #147]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Gail Neumann<p>Wildlife are under strain from many and varied threats.  Help reduce this through regulation and information aimed at reducing the harm yabby traps cause to our wildlife.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Dorothy Brown, Australia<p>We, the undersigned, call upon the ACT and NSW governments to enact, as a matter of urgency, regulations to require that any person selling yabby traps, whether in-store or on-line, be required to advise the buyer of the rules pertaining to their use and the risks they pose to wildlife such as platypus, turtles, water rats and diving birds.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Barb Baker, NSW, Australia<p>I, call upon the ACT and NSW governments to enact, as a matter of urgency, regulations to require that any person selling yabby traps, whether in-store or on-line, be required to advise the buyer of the rules pertaining to their use and the risks they pose to wildlife such as platypus, turtles, water rats and diving birds.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Frances Lind, Duffy, A.C.T, Australia<p>Considering the vulnerability of local platypus and crayfish populations I believe it is vital to restrict, and ultimately ban, the sale of yabby traps in the A.C.T.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[DR MARGOT WOODS, Acton, ACT, Australia<p>PITY THE POOR PLATYPUS</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Jamie Pittock<p>It&#039;s time to act on this problem</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Chris Emery, Canberra, ACT, Australia<p>Stop the traps.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Sam Mudway [Signature #140]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 07:18:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Catherine Spare, Australia<p>I support this petition to require retailers that sell Yabbie traps to put a warning on them about the danger they pose to our native wildlife. The protection of our native wildlife should be an absolute priority.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs fiona chapman, Holder, ACT, Australia<p>We, the undersigned, call upon the ACT and NSW governments to enact, as a matter of urgency, regulations to require that any person selling yabby traps, whether in-store or on-line, be required to advise the buyer of the rules pertaining to their use and the risks they pose to wildlife such as platypus, turtles, water rats and diving birds.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms bina brown, Canberra<p>It is disturbing to think that sellers and users of these traps do so knowing they could trap wildlife. Please fix it.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Anne Clarke, Ainslie, ACT, Australia<p>The careless use of these traps is killing one of our most beloved native animals.  Enough is enough.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Kelly<p>Platypus need all the protection we can give them.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Maryke Booth, Canberra, ACT, Australia<p>Make a difference ! It&#039;s not hard!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:45:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 03:38:26 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mark Lintermans [Signature #132]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mark Lintermans<p>A long overdue conservation measure</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:28:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Anonymous [Signature #131]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Rostrevor, South Australia, Australia<p>These traps are illegal because the endanger the lives of vulnerable wildlife. Preventing or limiting the sale of these devices is more effective than policing the waterways. It makes good sense to stop at the source.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Anthony Heiser, Queanbeyan East, NSW, Australia<p>I support the proposal.  Please understand that the majority of recreational anglers comply with the rules.  I also note from the Canberra Times article that it was a concerned angler that reported the opera house net with the dead platypus to TAMS.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Susan Nicholls, Australia<p>Please do as much as possible to ban these infernal traps.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:02:03 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Waltraud Pix, Hackett, ACT, Australia<p>Over the past years illegal traps have been used several times in the Mt Majura nature reserve. A number of turtles were killed.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Anonymous [Signature #127]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous<p>Yabby traps are killing our valuable wildlife, and should be banned.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 01:32:20 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Lisa Doucette [Signature #126]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Lisa Doucette, Canberra, ACT, Australia<p>A lack of awareness all too often results in needless harm to wildlife. A little education goes a long way. The simple act of making users aware of the risks these traps pose to non-target, often threatened, species is likely to increase responsible use of the traps, and may reduce the use of the traps overall.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Peter Hoad [Signature #125]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Peter Hoad, Australia<p>sale of yabby traps should be banned</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 06:26:15 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Anonymous [Signature #124]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Hughes]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 06:14:15 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Patricia Watson, Red Hill, Australian Capital Territ, Australia<p>Furthermore, anyone caught using such a trap should be heavily fined on the spot.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 02:40:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Kim Reid [Signature #122]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Kim Reid<p>The continuing use of these traps in an illegal manner necessitates action. More platypus have been found dead, and better community awareness could prevent this!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 02:01:29 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Judith Gamper [Signature #121]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Judith Gamper<p>The opera house yabby traps have been known to cause the unnecessary  death of animals such as the platypus and water rat for some time but these deaths are still occurring.  Please ensure that the public are made aware that these traps  should not be used in the ACT and surriounding NSW waters.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Ian Hufton, Deakin, ACT, Australia<p>Please ban sale of yabby traps in ACT</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 01:14:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Frankie Seymour, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia<p>We, the undersigned, call upon the ACT and NSW governments to enact, as a matter of urgency, regulations to require that any person selling yabby traps, whether in-store or on-line, be required to advise the buyer of the rules pertaining to their use and the risks they pose to wildlife such as platypus, turtles, water rats and diving birds.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Toni Pye [Signature #118]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Toni Pye, Australia<p>I support this campaign wholeheartedly.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2013 08:51:11 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Bernard Brennan, Latham, ACT, Australia<p>No excuses for cruelty</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2013 06:24:11 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Luke Phillips, Young, NSW, Australia<p>:)</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 04:29:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Thomas Wlikins, Melbourne, VIC, Australia<p>The fact that they&#039;re a national symbol should be turning heads, but in fact they&#039;re far more important to us in australian river ecosystems.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Michael Hammer, Brighton East/ Melbourne, VIC, Australia<p>Advising of the rules and risks of using such netting is a small measure to help save wildlife and in some cases the buyer wouldn&#039;t know unless they were informed. this helps to protect the public as well as the wildlife.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Mel Bedggood, Tarneit, VIC, Australia<p>Look after our wildlife!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Casey O&#039;Brien<p>yabby traps are killing our native wildlife and something needs to be done about it</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Eric Carrasco, Doral, Florida, United States of America<p>Yappy traps are illegal in all public waterways in the A.C.T region.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr James Cassidy, EAST KILMORE, VIC, Australia<p>I support this petition.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:29:09 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Melissa Klamt, Australia<p>This Australian icon needs our protection. The platypus faces so many large hurdles, such as climate change and loss of habitat. We need to make sure we&#039;re doing everything, including the little things (safer traps), to help them persist!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr matthew perdrau<p>Stongly agree with this petition.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:05:56 UTC</pubDate>
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