Spanky we don't have guys and gals we have blokes and sheilas, we also have life expectancy of aborigines at 17 years less than the white average, one of the worlds highest rates of infant mortality as well as high rates of disease amongst our aboriginal population.
So as you can well imagine Bloody kangaroos don't rate real high here, it also seems your backyard could do with a bit of a tidy up re canned hunting.

Alanpoi,as far as my "back yard" is concerned, I take it that you are refering to South Africa? I thankfully no-longer live there anymore as it has gotten a little unpalletable for professionals to continue living there, if you can, try to look up the statistics on how many people are leaving S.A. you will be shocked. In any event, S.A. is on its way out, sad to say.
One comment was that they were going to go out on a hunting trip armed to the teeth, all adults, grown up and mature men,huh?
Spanky

The question about who was here first is any easy one but doesn't really do anything to help solve the problem. We're here now and we have to try to live in and manage the country as best we can for all those who live here. In part our arrival here has created the problem in more ways than just us being here causes conflict between the environment and us. Agriculture has through necessity resulted in large areas of woodland being turned into grass-land which has led to an explosion in kangaroo numbers since European settlement. A couple of years ago there were areas of South Australia that were having similar difficulties with large numbers of Emu's starving due to drought conditions. As harsh as it may seem to you humane culling is an act of kindness compared to allowing animals to starve. As for the comment about going out hunting armed to the teeth I think that alzo was trying to yank your chain so to speak.

Finally I agree with Alanpoi that we face some massive problems in this country both in our environment and our society. It isn't that we don't care about the plight of a few thousand kangaroos but in comparison it seems somewhat trifling compared to the other problems that we are confronted with.

Spanky

I'm with you. Unhappily, in Australia, we have our share of misfits, lusting for the blood of defenceless animals.

Interesting how these misfits always infiltrate these threads, posing as conservationists, when all they want is to vent their malicious obsession for dominance over innocent species.

I believe they're the little men who can't make it with their own - copycats of the "Ivan Milats" in our society where fair play is not part of their vocabulary!

I'm sure the authorities would be interested to learn of Alzo's cache of weapons!

"I'm sure the authorities would be interested to learn of Alzo's cache of weapons!"

All fully licenced and legitimate.

"all they want is to vent their malicious obsession for dominance over innocent species"

Sure do. Just the other day I dominated a rabbit. Although he put up a hell of a fight, he was very tasty.

"lusting for the blood of defenceless animals."

Where is a defenceless animaaalll? I need to feast!