I am now doing a fair amount of night time driving on country roads and I'm wondering if anyone is responsible for or, at the least, owns the numerous large animals that seem to wander aimlessly into the carriage ways?

Seems rather dangerous to me.

OH YA TALKING ABOUT THEM DROP BEARS
their having trouble hunting from the trees
so taken to scurrying between the bushes.but as for who owns them/if their not branded//tattooed dna tested..its likely the beasts are without master/freE born[not freE range]..

ANYHOW DID YOU NOTICE IF THEY GOT HORNS
it helps id them/was there great chunks out of the ears
could mean its a male that got away from the feelale he was mating with

apparently the free/fe-male/likes a nibble/when getting down and dirty
i find just avoid driving at dusk/and low beams the second i spo one[to give it darkness to escape/but also say god/im trusting you.]

the general rule is run it over but leave the skin on the fence
the meat is yours if your hungry/so say im so hungry i could eat a horse/no sweat/wish is granted

beware of running over yowies/[and never carry one in the back/if you happen to hit one/and accidently reverse over him/to see if hes all right[i thought i had a nice trophy/buT HE WOKE UP..MATE IT WAS A MESS.

i often PULL the dead stuff of the road
im trying to get a road kill forrest gravyard/going n the national park/next dor/but YOU KNOW HOW THINGS ARE/ soo much road kill/so few panel beaters.

What large animals, Is Mise? Roos, cows, horses, diprotodons?

Well I guess on a tech issue, if anyone were to be held responsible for the native wild animals, it would be the indigenous folk as they claim to be the traditional owners, don't they!

As for farm animals, it's my understanding that if say a cow roams onto the road, it is the farmers responsibility if the gate was left open, whereas no one can be held accountable if the cow breaks the fence.

Similar for a dog.

But, if a person is walking a dog, without a leash, then they are held liable, however, if the dog breaks away from the owner and causes a problem, then the owner may not be liable depending on the circumstances.

I blame the greens.

If they hadn't got every damn thing on earth protected, [except the white adult male in work that is], there wouldn't be all this car damaging, fence destroying fauna around.

<< I blame the greens >>

Haaahahaa

Of course you do Hazza! ( :>)

Warning, if you hit livestock you are responsible for the accident & the cost of the beast. It's still Law.

If you ask the Roo's & native animals nicely, as advised by the Greenies, they may move off the road for you. But, you may have to wait because they have Rights, you know.

Always best to travel in daylight hours and keep a look-out for stock. Go a bit slower and enjoy the drive.

http://www.beefcentral.com/news/qld-govt-advice-on-stock-route-grazing-permits/

....Warning, if you hit livestock you are responsible for the accident & the cost of the beast. It's still Law.

I think you will find Jayb that law only applies if the animal is not being managed, eg, gate shut etc.

Daylight hours are not an option, travel is related to a hospital roster.

The animals that cause the most concern are 'roos and wallabies and to a lesser extent deer and pigs, fortunately the pigs are not really big but are heavy, the deer can be up to the size of a full grown steer.

Tuesday night I passed 4 live 'roos (that I saw) and two freshly killed; last night 4 live and 3 kills.

Why is it that motorists, who through no fault of their own, hit one of these animals cannot claim against the owners?

The trip is only 70 kms (one way) but I find that any speed over 80 kph is dangerous, given the number of bends and the amount of cover next to the road.
The speed limit for the full 70 kms is 100 kph.

Mise: Tuesday night I passed 4 live 'roos (that I saw) and two freshly killed; last night 4 live and 3 kills. Why is it that motorists, who through no fault of their own, hit one of these animals cannot claim against the owners?

Errr, What owner? Wild Deer, Pigs & Roo's? You better not kill any or you'll have the local PETA people crying on your doorstep that you an inhuman ba$ta&d & should be put in Jail.

Still, you have just got to drive carefully. If you hit a Roo you'll just have some frontal damage. If you hit a deer , like horses, you'll have the head through the windscreen & a hoof mark in the roof. If you hit a Pig, Like a Wombat, get a new car.

Best of luck.

I was at the auto electricians today. While I was waiting for my car, I was chatting to a guy from Kooralbyn, a strange synthetic tree change community in the middle of nowhere about 25 Km south of Beaudesert, itself pretty much in the middle of nowhere.

He was getting a ShuRoo fitted, an electronic noise emitter, designed to shoo roos off the road, as the name would imply. He said every one out there swore by them, & reckoned you could not go on the road at night out there without one, if you wanted to get home with the car in one piece.

I recently slashed about 10 acres down by the river. With the old longer grass gone I had a good flush fresh green shoots. I had a pump down on the river, pumping my dam full, before the river gets too low for harvesting to be permitted, so I was down there twice a day checking & fueling it.

Every time I went down there I had a flock of 30+ roos on the bottom black soil paddock. After a couple of days they ignored me unless I got within a few feet of them. That is at least 4 times as many as I have ever had in the last 22 years.

We are going to have to start culling them soon. I have only one old horse on the place today. He is not interested in wandering, fortunately. I am having to repair smashed boundary fences at least twice a week these days. It would be murder keeping stock in larger properties with this level of roos smashing fences.

I have had to put down 4 roos with terminal injuries that looked like fence injuries, so far this year.

Hasbeen: I was chatting to a guy from Kooralbyn, a strange synthetic tree change community in the middle of nowhere about 25 Km south of Beaudesert, itself pretty much in the middle of nowhere.

If you are from the Beauy area I probably know you.

I get into Beauy fairly regularly.

I'm the bloke who drives the funny little sports cars. Although the Honda S2000 looks as modern as anything on the road, it is 13 years old this year, & the Triumph is 34.

I used to drive a little Daihatsu, but now I've got a New TATA Ute.

Jayb,

In NSW the owner is presumably the State as the State has made it an offence to shoot 'roos for food, ditto deer unless one has the appropriate hunting licence.
It is also an offence to gather the carcass of a 'roo or deer that has died as a result of not avoiding one's motor vehicle.

Surely it is the owner's moral responsibility to make sure that their animals do not pose a hazard on the roads?

Mise: Surely it is the owner's moral responsibility to make sure that their animals do not pose a hazard on the roads?

Well the Roo's were here first they are indigenous, you know. First Nation Animals. There they are having tea, just on dusk, when someone in a tin can comes along & kills one of them. How cruel & uncaring. The Government should sue on their behalf. I'm going off to have a sniff, sniff, cry now. Sniff.

People should take care with our wildlife. They have rights, you know.

The keyboard greens would prefer that roos suffer slow death in their thousands from the dry that follows the rains, than allow culling for meat.

Similarly, keyboard greens would prefer that feral pigs eat the turtle eggs and the young turtles themselves in NQ, than allow hunters to take pigs as game. Same for deer, where keyboard greens don't mind these majestic animals being poisoned and the carcasses left to rot, than allow hunters to take any. Sad for Ausralian society that has hunting as a cultural tradition.

There are country towns that could bloom again if hunting was allowed, but no say the keyboard greens who live comfy lives in the city where they get their $$ from the taxpayer and their meat in plastic packs from the supermarket.

I would much rather allow law-abiding citizens to take whatever game they like for the pot especially rabbits and if they can set up come cottage industry to use the skins good on them. Gun regulations need to deny criminals ownership and punish them, not trample over the rights of ordinary citizens who would feed their family with some underground mutton to eke out the budget.

otb: the keyboard greens who live comfy lives in the city where they get their $$ from the taxpayer and their meat in plastic packs from the supermarket.

Hurmmmmph, wash your mouth out with soap, otb. Keyboard greens eat meat. OMG, what's the world coming to.

otb: The keyboard greens would prefer that roos suffer slow death in their thousands from the dry that follows the rains,

They think that meat is manufactured at the Supermarket out of... err, they don't want to know about that bit.

Now, now, OTB, logic will never do!