My opinion is that the whole 4WDs rights argument is completely barking up the wrong tree.

The only place that you have the Right to drive your car is on Your land. Driving on Your private land thrash around and break stuff all you like, I don't care.

On public roads you are subject to the privileged of having a license stating you are capable and allowed to drive there. Same with goes with national parks, state forests and private land that is open for 4wds to travel. Its not a right to be there its a privilege. You go there on the terms of the owners of the land. If its a privately owned 4wd park, their terms might be its fine to trash it or they might want to keep everything pristine. In the case of state forests and national parks, its a privilege to be there and the only way that we can keep our lifestyle alive it so accept its a privilege and treat it like one.

Calling for our rights won't help.

The only solution is to get people together around us and show the greenies that we are the same as them but with bigger cars. Go places, camp cleanly, organise cleaning up the bush and drown out the noisy minority. One state forest here is are slowly sold off to logging right beside a scientific reserve that houses one of the rarest trees in the world. Where is the sanity in that. The greenies aren't looking there, but 4wders in the area are, just not enough actually care about the ecosystems they are driving through. Me, i find it fascinating. I think part at least of the reason its being logged is that people were leaving crap everywhere. Always in range of 2wd vehicles, but still. The council could either clean it or let the loggers do it i guess, and there are many small forests around it with great medium and easy tracks that are not getting used other than for a rubbish dump.





I recon a 4wd licence would be a good thing to start. Similar to a boat licence, you do a basic course including a lot of tread lightly indoctrination, and have an extra class added to your drivers licence. It would at least start to filter out the scum and make 4wders more accountable for their behaviour.



The only way for our lifestyle to survive is if as many of us as possible take responsibility for looking after our home camps and tracks, take a ute and carry out rubbish, even patch bad bits of track if it seems appropriate. Clubs need to be petitioning their local councils to manage state forests. Imagine a 4wd club or forum like this one that is contracted by the local council to work with local bushcare groups to manage state forests and national parks in a local region. Then do that all across Australia. Then tracks wouldn't be closed, they would get maintained by the people who use them and care about them. And simultaneously working with the bush care groups would see the forests being used for recreation more, and regenerating towards their original state faster, and nobody would say that those 4wd hooligans are destroying Australia then.