Shooters hired to kill up to 15,000 kangaroos on Australian army base

Star Publications (Malaysia) ^ | 2002/5/20

[gd124]

My wife grew up near the real Eight Mile Creek in South Australia. It isn't really a creek at all, but rather a small, smelly and rubbish filled mangrove swamp.

[Movemout]

"Animal welfare activists have said they were prepared to stand between shooters and kangaroos if they deem that the animals are being unnecessarily killed. "

I second the motion. Bury 'em with the Roos.

I would offer the tanners and meat processors a chance to bid on the harvest to help pay for the extermination costs. (Just the Roos. The activists should be left to rot in the sun as an abject lesson to liberals of all stripes.)

[Quick Shot]

Aim high they maybe hopping.....

[anapikoros]

Posted: Wed, 22 May 2002 7:57 AEST

ABC Newsonline

Victoria denies kangaroos culled for commercial reasons The Victorian Government has given assurances that kangaroos culled at the Puckapunyal Army Base in central Victoria will not be used to initiate a commercial harvesting industry in that State.

The Defence Department has a permit to destroy 15,000 roos - part of an 80,000 herd overrunning the base.

Environment Minister Sherryl Garbutt says Victoria is not interested in culling kangaroos for commercial reasons.

However she concedes that does not prevent the cull from being sent to other states for commercial processing.

"If they could make all the arrangements, they could, I suppose take it to New South Wales or other states, but we certainly won't be seeing kangaroo meat industries set up here in Victoria, it's not desirable nor is it feasible," she said.

The Defence Department says it would like to see a commercial operation as part of the kangaroo management plan in the long term future.

[Utopia]

The animals will be shot in the head, and their carcasses buried in mass graves on the base.

What a waste! If they have to be killed, at least make use of their skins. Kangaroo rugs are very nice. I used to own a couple.

[shaggy eel]

The Defence Department says it would like to see a commercial operation as part of the kangaroo management plan in the long term future.

,,, with a statement like that from the Defence Dept, it seems they might be in line for slimming down and they're looking to diversify!

[shaggy eel]

Roo meat can be a bit 'stringy', but is quite tasty .. and is seriously low in cholesterol. Best served with a bush-tucker style cumquat or plum sauce.

,,, sounding more and more like venison. Yum!

[shaggy eel]

,,, let me translate post #48 for you [Maybe their is to many aussie's] -

Maybe there are too many Aussies?

[Billthedrill]

Roo. It's what's for dinner!

[Big Bunyip]

I'm delighted you had the good taste to marry an Australian, but she shouldn't claim exclusive rights to Eight Mile Creek.

If you drive any distance through rural Oz, they pop up all over the place -- as do Six Mile creeks, Seven Mile Creeks and Nine Mile Creeks.

If the early settlers didn't borrow aboriginal place names or import their proper nouns from England, they just went with the most obvious. Thus Oz boasts the Great Sandy Desert, Great Australian Bight etc. In fact, your wife's home state is a perfect example. In the U.S., they managed to come up with 50 original names. In Oz, they settled for, er, South Australia and West Australia. When the Northern territory gets statehood, they'll no doubt call it North Australia (although Capricornia would be a better choice).

Tell your missus they also serve Coopers at the Eight Mile Creek restaurant.

[gd124]

It actually is the same one, because when we visited her home town of Whyalla, near Eight Mile Creek, we read the old local newspapers, and one of them said that someone from Whyalla had opened a restaurant in New York called Eight Mile Creek.