A friendly exchange between the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party and Animal Justice Party has sparked anger among shooters who say they are being sold out, days before the Victorian State Election.
National Shooting Council Vice President, Peter Zabrdac, said there was strong evidence in the upper house preference deals to show that the SFFP’s Jeff Bourman has been selling his values in exchange for preferences to secure another spot in the Victorian Parliament.
In response to a video posted by Bourman complaining about a preference deal that fell through, the Animal Justice Party’s candidate for Southern Metropolitan, Ben Schutz told him “We got your back” and promoted him in their preferences.
The SFFP says they are putting the AJP who want to ban duck hunting last, but Mr Zabrdac said that was only being done for show. “If you look at who the SFFP has been preferencing, you will see that they are trying to tell shooters that they oppose the AJP but are instead directing preferences to them through other parties,” he said.
“The reason Ben Schultz is happy is because he’ll be getting SFFP preferences through the Sustainable Australia Party and probably a couple of others”.
“They did this at the 2018 State Election and they’re doing it again”
Mr Zabrdac called on shooters to boycott the SFFP, and make sure they control where their preferences go by voting ‘below the line’ by numbering at least five boxes, and preferably 12.
