Alan B.,
Dingoes were semidomesticated by the Aboriginal population. And anyway, they're descended from dogs in Asia rather than directly from Asian wolves.

Dingoes on Fraser Island used to eat stranded sea snakes and fish prior to marine life becoming devastated.
Even today on this OLO site there are people oblivious to alongshore current transporting nutrient overload that is proliferating algae that is killing seagrass food web nurseries and coral in Australian waters.

Major media is gagging and suppressing information including photographic and scientific evidence indicating whales are starving to death and that it is nutrient that is killing seagrass and GBR coral.
Ignorance is no excuse, especially ignorance with intent.
It's time to wake up and get the blinkers off.

Scientific researchers best be honest and include government dumped sewage in the TOTAL nutrient loading. Otherwise solutions will not be found and put in place.
Nutrient overload pollution is now increasingly feeding algae that is killing ocean and river food web nursery ecosystems.
More algae, why, they ask. E.g.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/26/why-are-there-so-many-toxic-algae-blooms-this-year.html

Mass starvation and death of fish dependent seabirds has been occurring for years now but the get up and collect money for political purposes mob say nothing about that mass starvation and animal misery.
Nor do the get up mob or major media address the now chronic fish depletion-linked protein deficiency under-nutrition – malnutrition and associated NCD among SW Pacific Islands seafood dependent people.

This is not just about the occasional dead dog or hammer that glances off the head of a moving beast as meatworkers endeavour to slaughter it to feed people.
This is not just about an indigenous man that prods a turtle with a knife to see if nerves indicate it is not yet dead and may bump a sharp knife that could seriously cut the man gathering his food..
Get up and look closely and carefully. The ABC should tell the true story.

5,000 dead babies and 1,500 dead mothers in one year in PNG is generally linked to anaemia that coincides with river and ocean fish stock devastation and under-nutrition (in humans and animals), and the situation should be truthfully and fully reported or should be subject of a Royal Commission.

“Certain politicians and figures in the media rejected the Baird government's ban on greyhound racing outright.”

So they should. It was a (some would say typical) Baird knee-jerk reaction. It is pertinent that governments of the other main greyhound racing states, Victoria and Queensland, do not agree with the ban.

It should be remembered that the McHugh inquiry was set up because of alleged live baiting in the greyhound industry, that was exposed on ABC Four Corners.

Thanks to the animal righters’ highly alarmist claims, McHugh accepted them at face value, was distracted away from the main issue, and concluded that the number of greyhounds being culled by the industry was grossly excessive.

Ironically, the RSPCA, the largest euthaniser of unwanted dogs of all breeds in the state, agreed.

Given that many, if not most, of the claims were unsubstantiated, the veracity of McHugh’s report is open to question, to say the least. It should have been issued as a draft report for discussion.

Surprisingly, what has been overlooked by Baird and his ‘yes-men’ parliamentary colleagues and faithful supporters, is that the government’s regulation of the industry has failed or else is ineffective.

To add insult to injury, Baird now proposes that the dogs enforceably made surplus as a result of the ban, should be supported for life by taxpayer-funded welfare. This is political correctness gone mad.

“In the meantime, the Baird decision to ban greyhound racing will need approval by the parliament in order to have the force of law.”

Banning of greyhound racing in NSW is considered to be unjustified on the ‘evidence’ tendered to date. However, there is certainly urgent need for government regulation of the industry to be reviewed.

Spent a lot of time on the reef have you JF Aus? No I thought not. The natural habitat of fools who could produce a post like yours is in the inner city high rise concrete jungle.

You obviously do a lot of reading of garbage produced by others of your inner city tribe, to come up with such garbage. The sort of rubbish this article represents, written by another of those theory people. Bet he has never been to an isolated Coral Sea reef, put down an injured roo, or a much loved horse.

I have spent years on the reef, & on reefs in very isolated parts of the Pacific, the type of places you can only get to with your own yacht, or millions to charter one.

Not good for the productivity of freelance writers. They specialise in reproducing the type of garbage they have read somewhere, & taken as fact.

Yes Adian, I know that the dingo (asian wolf) was semi domesticated by aboriginal people, and even brought them here around 12-14 thousand years ago, where they were employed as hunting companions.

Which were turned on the original previous inhabitants, now known as Tasmanian aborigines, who apparently has more in common with the original chatham Islanders than mainland aborigines?

Who used these dogs (semi domesticated Asian wolves) to drive the original inhabitants island hopping all the way south to Tasmania.

This is supported by the oral history of both groups. And the relocation (10-12 thousand years ago)n was accompanied by the most horrendous and primitive genocide and hostage taking, where children would be held to ensure their mother would be cooperative and compliant in all things; including the sharing of traditional knowledge of bush tucker and bush medicine. And something I learned at my Grandmother's knee.

Simply put, as usual you don't have a clue, given simple DNA comparisons, well and truly proves that our dingos are the prodigy of the Asian wolf. And that the very last purebreed examples now reside as just a tiny Fraser Island example.

We could have tranquilised unwanted numbers and sent them to the welcoming arms of various zoos? instead we euthanised them with long arm firearms!

And these incredibly rare dogs (Asian wolves) are amongst the most intelligent dogs on the planet!

Huskies were once American wolves and as usual semi domesticated by native women (the method) wet nursing orphaned pups!

In future please ensure brain is operating before putting furiously flapping mouth into gear.
Alan B.

As far as I know, McHugh didn't say anything about banning greyhound racing? Isn't this just another example of a useless politician (Baird) knee-jerking to a minority instead of getting off his bum and ensuring that the sport is contolled?. The ICC and the AFL seem to have no trouble policing clubs and players, right down to petty things.