Letter to the Editor

What absolute stupidity to spend millions of dollars of taxpayer money on a Dingo Fence (CM15/5) when your family cannot get medical attention, when ambulances are waiting long periods to get patients medical attention — that is stupidity you elected into parliament. Politicians who would sooner spend money on dingo’s than saving your families’ lives.

The socialist Queensland Labor Party has long lost any semblance of sanity, lurching further to the Left of Lenin, jumping to the every whim of Green nutcases, now will spend millions on a wire fence to be erected in pure sand 100 metres from the ocean. This utter stupidity will not prevent contact between unafraid feral dingoes and humans. Thin them out, remove them from the island, fence off one of the ALP’s dozens of mainland national park wastelands and keep a few for their genetic material. There are at least a million feral dogs running across the country.

The Dingoes on Fraser Island need to be removed, they were introduced there years ago, they are not native animals, all native animals are marsupials or monotremes. Genetic studies show Dingoes arrived in Australia with the migration of Southern India aborigines about 4,000 years ago when they migrated from Borneo through Sulawesi to Australia.

DNA shows Dingoes lost multiple copies of a starch digestion gene while living with agricultural people possibly in Borneo, Indonesia, which identifies their origin.  

About 4,000 years ago the Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine existed on the mainland, as it was a solitary animal as dingoes hunt in packs, they eventually wiped out Thylacines.

These dogs should not be allowed in the wild, they are no different to any other feral animal: they are however one of the most intelligent dogs alive and must be kept for breeding.

Their genes are what make Australian cattle and sheep dogs the world’s smartest and most reliable working dogs. 

Sincerely

G J May

Forestdale 4118