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Thursday, 28 August 2008

Police arrest 10th activist at cull site

23/05/2008 11:12:00 AM.  | 
ACT police have arrested a woman accused of throwing rocks at security staff at the site of a controversial kangaroo cull in Canberra.

Police said officers called to the site about 7pm (AEST) yesterday arrested a 53-year-old woman from the inner-south Canberra suburb of Deakin.

She was granted bail and is due to face the ACT Magistrates Court on June 6, charged with using a weapon or missile likely to injure another person.

The latest incident brings to 10 the number of people arrested at the cull site on defence land in northern Canberra.

Defence contractors are culling more than 400 eastern grey kangaroos at the former naval communications base property at Lawson.

The kangaroos are being tranquillised with darts and then injected with a lethal drug.

The cull, which started on Monday, is expected to take about three to four weeks.

Yesterday, a 57-year-old man was taken away by police after allegedly damaging property at the site.

Earlier, four men and four women were charged with trespassing on commonwealth land.

COMMENTS

Saturday, 24 May 2008

Management is not waiting until there are seen to be "too many" kangaroos, and then have to kill them! What kind of environmental managment is this? This is a total failure of management. It is just cold-blooded execution, and totally shameful to Australia. Where is the program for breeding the "endangered" insects and earless lizard? The land is ear-marked for development and this feeble excuse for the massacre will be forgotten!

Posted by: Milly Osborne, Vic

 
 

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