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A lot of my colleagues, especially on the select committee, use rhetoric like, ‘This is a new Cold War,’ first of all, it’s not true: The Soviet Union was a very different competitor than China. And it’s framed in a very zero-sum way … It’s very much being talked about as if their entire way of life is incompatible with ours and cannot coexist with ours, and that heightens the tension. – Andy Kim	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Being a better role model for my siblings, instilling things that I learned from my father that they might not have the opportunity to have because they didn’t have as much time with him that I did. – The Fletchers ' 17-year-old son	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Especially early on the pandemic, you didn’t get to say goodbye. You didn’t get to be in the hospital. You didn’t get to hold their hand. That loss impacts you dramatically and sits with you for a really long time, when that loss is for a young person, someone who’s losing a parent, it’s a really different kind of loss. – Christopher Kocher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I got accepted into schools that I wanted to go to, but I couldn’t afford to go to them because papa died. – Joshua Fletcher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was in New York on 9/11. I know how much the city and the nation stepped up to support those families, we need to see something similar here. We’re fighting to make sure that we hear a lot more from the president, from the states around the country and from local communities to make sure that they are providing the support that these children need. – Christopher Kocher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s so real, but not real at the same time. – The Fletchers ' 17-year-old son	Found on CNN 1 year ago
To be able to usher my children through this loss, it comes from 40 years of pain and knowing what that little nine-year-old girl needed and received, to lose a parent is traumatic, and the way the parents were lost during the pandemic, to have to grieve in isolation, that compounds the pain exponentially. – Courtesy Veronica Fletcher Veronica Fletcher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Pain is pain, trauma is trauma, this power is turning your pain into purpose. Those are the kinds of lessons that are helping my children to find hope, to be resilient, to know that they’re not alone. It helps you to help someone else. – Courtesy Veronica Fletcher Veronica Fletcher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In fact, minstrel blackface has emerged into even more subtle forms of racism that are now glorified all over the Internet. – Erinn Wong	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you’re taking a long time to consume things and they’re going stale. – Shara Kay	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think this is a good proposal as it not only improves family policies, but also gender equality. – Hisakazu Kato	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Small companies are afraid they will face( worker shortages) due to childcare leave, and this puts pressure on young fathers who want to take childcare leave in future. – Hisakazu Kato	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you see a group of guys, coaching staff, players, everybody pulling in the same direction, every single day even when it’s hard, special things happen. – Dusty May	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The harvesters are professionals. They’re not there to waste bullets. – Dennis King	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Many of them are of conservation concern, but they’re not the ones that are harvested for leather products. – Jim Radford	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Where there’s a relatively small but contained population, sterilization procedures are feasible, but they’re very expensive. And they’re not really going to work at a large scale. – Jim Radford	Found on CNN 1 year ago
A lot of people in the conservation sector eat kangaroos, and they won’t eat other meat, from an Australian perspective, we’d be much better off from a land condition and environmental perspective, if we replaced cows with macropods. The land would be in much better condition. – Jim Radford	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The only reason that we do kangaroo management is for ecological and environmental imperatives, we have mouthless moths, we have earless dragons and we have legless lizards, and they are very important for the ecosystem. So we do have to undertake management of those systems and particularly make sure that we maintain a sustainable kangaroo population. – Rebecca Vassarotti	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Any culling through the use of firearms is a confronting topic, it almost goes against everything that we aim to do from a conservation perspective. The welfare of the animal and any young are at their highest priority for us in undertaking what is a confronting program. – Bren Burkevics	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They’re a wonderful animal. They are a national icon … but these government conservation programs are in place to ensure a better outcome for their wellbeing and health. – Dennis King	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If they’re being managed properly, apparently, then we wouldn’t be seeing dramatic drops of kangaroos in areas which aren’t even particularly rural farmland. – Mark Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If they took the time to understand and look at what the reality is, they would see that this is a very well-managed and highly regulated industry, they’re a wonderful animal. They are a national icon … but these government conservation programs are in place to ensure a better outcome for their wellbeing and health. – Dennis King	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The subtleties of this, I think, are probably lost from a distance, if there isn’t an industry for kangaroo leather and kangaroo meat, kangaroos are still going to be shot, I promise you. Landholders are still going to shoot kangaroos and it’s going to be a worse animal welfare outcome than if it was done in a regulated, controlled manner. – Jim Radford	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They’re then monitored and cared for until the anesthetic wears off at which time they’re free to return to the reserve. – Bren Burkevics	Found on CNN 1 year ago

A lot of my colleagues, especially on the select committee, use rhetoric like, ‘This is a new Cold War,’ first of all, it’s not true: The Soviet Union was a very different competitor than China. And it’s framed in a very zero-sum way … It’s very much being talked about as if their entire way of life is incompatible with ours and cannot coexist with ours, and that heightens the tension.

– Andy Kim

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Being a better role model for my siblings, instilling things that I learned from my father that they might not have the opportunity to have because they didn’t have as much time with him that I did.

– The Fletchers ' 17-year-old son

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Especially early on the pandemic, you didn’t get to say goodbye. You didn’t get to be in the hospital. You didn’t get to hold their hand. That loss impacts you dramatically and sits with you for a really long time, when that loss is for a young person, someone who’s losing a parent, it’s a really different kind of loss.

– Christopher Kocher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I got accepted into schools that I wanted to go to, but I couldn’t afford to go to them because papa died.

– Joshua Fletcher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was in New York on 9/11. I know how much the city and the nation stepped up to support those families, we need to see something similar here. We’re fighting to make sure that we hear a lot more from the president, from the states around the country and from local communities to make sure that they are providing the support that these children need.

– Christopher Kocher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s so real, but not real at the same time.

– The Fletchers ' 17-year-old son

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To be able to usher my children through this loss, it comes from 40 years of pain and knowing what that little nine-year-old girl needed and received, to lose a parent is traumatic, and the way the parents were lost during the pandemic, to have to grieve in isolation, that compounds the pain exponentially.

– Courtesy Veronica Fletcher Veronica Fletcher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Pain is pain, trauma is trauma, this power is turning your pain into purpose. Those are the kinds of lessons that are helping my children to find hope, to be resilient, to know that they’re not alone. It helps you to help someone else.

– Courtesy Veronica Fletcher Veronica Fletcher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In fact, minstrel blackface has emerged into even more subtle forms of racism that are now glorified all over the Internet.

– Erinn Wong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you’re taking a long time to consume things and they’re going stale.

– Shara Kay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think this is a good proposal as it not only improves family policies, but also gender equality.

– Hisakazu Kato

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Small companies are afraid they will face( worker shortages) due to childcare leave, and this puts pressure on young fathers who want to take childcare leave in future.

– Hisakazu Kato

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you see a group of guys, coaching staff, players, everybody pulling in the same direction, every single day even when it’s hard, special things happen.

– Dusty May

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The harvesters are professionals. They’re not there to waste bullets.

– Dennis King

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Many of them are of conservation concern, but they’re not the ones that are harvested for leather products.

– Jim Radford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Where there’s a relatively small but contained population, sterilization procedures are feasible, but they’re very expensive. And they’re not really going to work at a large scale.

– Jim Radford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of people in the conservation sector eat kangaroos, and they won’t eat other meat, from an Australian perspective, we’d be much better off from a land condition and environmental perspective, if we replaced cows with macropods. The land would be in much better condition.

– Jim Radford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The only reason that we do kangaroo management is for ecological and environmental imperatives, we have mouthless moths, we have earless dragons and we have legless lizards, and they are very important for the ecosystem. So we do have to undertake management of those systems and particularly make sure that we maintain a sustainable kangaroo population.

– Rebecca Vassarotti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Any culling through the use of firearms is a confronting topic, it almost goes against everything that we aim to do from a conservation perspective. The welfare of the animal and any young are at their highest priority for us in undertaking what is a confronting program.

– Bren Burkevics

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They’re a wonderful animal. They are a national icon … but these government conservation programs are in place to ensure a better outcome for their wellbeing and health.

– Dennis King

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If they’re being managed properly, apparently, then we wouldn’t be seeing dramatic drops of kangaroos in areas which aren’t even particularly rural farmland.

– Mark Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If they took the time to understand and look at what the reality is, they would see that this is a very well-managed and highly regulated industry, they’re a wonderful animal. They are a national icon … but these government conservation programs are in place to ensure a better outcome for their wellbeing and health.

– Dennis King

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The subtleties of this, I think, are probably lost from a distance, if there isn’t an industry for kangaroo leather and kangaroo meat, kangaroos are still going to be shot, I promise you. Landholders are still going to shoot kangaroos and it’s going to be a worse animal welfare outcome than if it was done in a regulated, controlled manner.

– Jim Radford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They’re then monitored and cared for until the anesthetic wears off at which time they’re free to return to the reserve.

– Bren Burkevics

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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