Anti-duck hunting activists who dumped dead ducks outside the Victorian premier's office say they are being barred from the state's wetlands under new protest laws.
Coalition Against Duck Shooting activist Tony Murphy says the new move-on powers, which opponents say restrict the right to protest, have for the first time led to their rescuers being excluded from the wetlands.
"(Agriculture Minister) Peter Walsh's strategy is to force us off the wetlands so that massacres of endangered waterbirds can continue in secret," Mr Murphy said.
The activists dumped the carcasses of ducks collected over the weekend's opening of the duck season outside Premier Denis Napthine's Melbourne office on Monday, saying 33 were the endangered freckled duck species.
