A water colour from the National Library of Australia’s Rex Nan Kivell Collection painted by ‘SM’ of a kangaroo hunt led by a squatter during the 1860s. Interestingly, squatters and other landowners who were obliged to pay the Marsupial Tax from 1877, were not eligible to receive a bounty for any of the ‘evil pests’ they killed.
“That in the opinion of this House, the Marsupial Pest has become an evil of s...
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