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.