I don't disagree that the QAA needs a kick start in that direction, but I also recognise that the QAA only survives as a going concern through the money generated by its membership camps etc... they are not going to turn away members nor alienate them. (Check some of my very earlier posts mate about Arb standards and regs in Qld, I'm not in the QAA for precisely those reasons) Other Arborists I have spoken to about this who are in QAA argue that things are changing slowly, and many of the earlier problems with certain individuals and their atitudes are no more.
Maybe its incumbant on me to join and change from within, but frankly I've enough on as it is with ISAAC and trying to change the attitude of numerous other professional bodies that directly impact on tree health in our urban communities.
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We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran
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