Unions to target Labor MPs after inquiry finds duck hunting should be banned in Victoria

Lake Connewarre state game reserve in Melbourne. Duck hunters and unions will campaign against a ban on native bird hunting in Victoria. Photograph: Diego Fedele/AAP

Victorian Labor MPs are set to be targeted by duck hunters and unions in an effort to stop the state government from acting on an inquiry’s recommendation to ban the activity.

It comes as the upper house MP Sheena Watt, a member of the premier’s socialist left faction who is also on the select committee on Victoria’s recreational native bird hunting arrangements, “blindsided” Labor colleagues when she broke ranks to oppose a ban.