GOVERNMENT INACTION WORSENS RABBIT PROBLEM

IN December 1950 a farmer wrote, rabbits are Australia’s greatest curse that will not be cured by prosecuting the individual.

Our railways and Crown land, are breeding grounds that are above the law, and there is unwarranted threatening of landholders when government makes little or no attempt to set its own house in order. Governments need to recognise their duty.

Now, 2017 on the Bellarine, rabbits are worse than you think.

Who will stand for the native plants, birds and animals deprived a functioning ecosystem after 67 years? T. Bloomfield, Anglesea