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.