Hi guys feel bad asking but i need help in getting my R licence for NSW.
As some of you may, or may not know, Barry O'farrel our NSW state Premier disolved the NSW game council last June and with it suspended all hunting on public lands in NSW.
Now, the problem i have is this; last year around May i completed the R licence test through the SSAA to which im a member. I sent my completed application form and accreditation to the game council for processing. Two days after Bazza disolved the council. They, the game council, rang me and ask if i wanted to go through with the application (75 bucks, which in heindsight, i should of ) but the girl told me that she wasn't sure if they were keeping their jobs... Basically no one knew wtf was going on, so i said no (idiot) but at the time it seemed logical.
But now that everthing is back to normal i need to get my R licence ASAP before April rolls around for deer season.
Heres the gambit though, my family moved house in August last year and my accreditation was lost in the move...
The game council tells me the accreditation is still valid and if can get it, find it, send it back in they will process it. The next nail in the coffin for me is this, i rang the SSAA (spoke to Robert) he tells me they shredded some of / all of their accreditations from previous years becuase of the move by Bazza.
So if Robert cant find my accreditations i need to do the whole thing again, but guess what? The SSAA had their training licence revoked and can no longer train members for the R licence exam. Next s**t part is that according to the new DPI, hunting web site, i need to complete the exam via a registered hunting organisation...
Short story is im f***ed boys.. Any ideas or any organisations i can contact in the Newcastle area.