I can appreciate the Tasmanian Farmers position as i am one myself. This is not the whole story. There are farmers that charge large ammounts of money for deerhunters to have access to hunt on their properties. I dont have any issue with this but they exclude many other licenced and insured hunter for harvesting themselves. That is their parogative of course but you can see were this is going. The farmers then receive a handy cash flow which is tax free. Still no problems with that. I do have a problem with farmers that complain about productivity lose, yet profit from charging hunters to access their property but the Government interfering with quota numbers only allowing hunters to take a couple for meat and allowing the population too replenish the following year. Farmers can apply for a destruction permit to reduce numbers but dont have enough time to do it themselves and dont want to pay anyone to do it.
Suggestion: why dont the Government implement the USA approach to this problem. It works very well over there and most farmers allow trespass on their properties if hunters are licenced and insured. The answer is the Government dont want to pay for Game Wardens that police this method and prevent poachers with the money they gain from selling deer hunting licences. There are very good solutions in Europe and America that work were farmers are happy, get compensated for damage when the population get too high and collect handsome fees allowing access in season to hunt their properties. I know how it works because i hunt for deer in the US. Millons of dollars are generated with hunting tourism.