Fraser Island dingoes have taken the easy way out sourcing food – from humans
By Jim O’Toole*
A spate of dingo attacks on Fraser Island visitors indicates the overcrowded feral animals are starving and consequently have no fear of humans.
There were 24 reported attacks and many more unreported dingo interactions with visitors during 2024 according to Fraser Coast residents on social media.
Medical assistance was called for on Sunday after a four year old girl was bitten on the leg at Lake McKenzie.
beach last year.
Park rangers provided first aid to the girl who encountered the dingo in the carpark at Boorangaroo, before she was later flown to Hervey Bay Hospital.
A Queensland Ambulance spokesman said paramedics had been called to meet the child at a resort on the island and that they were in a stable condition.
It comes after a four-year-old girl was earlier bitten by a dingo when it reportedly charged at her and her 12-year-old sibling in shallow waters at Boorangaroo.
A separate earlier attack by a dingo on a woman trying to stop the animal taking her bag was also reported to Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service on Sunday.
A dingo’s natural food supply is wide and varied indicating the world’s largest sand island off the coast of Maryborough in southern Queensland obviously is devoid of marsupials and reptiles, making humans a target. Natural food sources have been hunted out by starving dogs.
Tourists have been warned by authorities for years not to feed dingoes.
Children have been attacked regularly leaving some with serious bites after adults have chased the savage dogs away.
Sooner or later there will be a fatality as rangers warn visitors to keep away from marauding packs of dogs after four attacks in one week.
A dingo in its natural environment would not normally attack a human instead preferring to kill and eat a kangaroo, wallaby, bandicoot, lizard or bird.
Packs of hunting dingoes regularly kill calves and sheep on the mainland in the absence or scarcity of natural prey.
For dingoes to constantly attack humans indicates that Fraser Island has been eaten out of marsupials and other readily available natural food sources. Turtle and scrub hen eggs and beached marine life are another food source, but it is obvious there are far too many dogs running on the 184,000 hectare island in spite of the reported large amounts of refuse left on the island by tourists, another possible food supply.
Senior Ranger Dr Linda Behrendorff said visitors needed to remember the importance of carrying a ‘dingo stick’ while on the busy island and keeping children close.
Cairns News believes a 12 gauge shotgun would be much more effective and safer than a stick. It is too late for rangers to shoot a dog after a savage attack on a child.
“Some dingoes will target children because they are seen as the weaker links of the pack. This is why it is so important to keep children within arm’s reach,” she said.
“Visitors must not be complacent. People need to understand their risk when travelling to Fraser Island. Our message is simple: Be dingo-safe!”
An alert on the QPWS website urged holiday-makers to be aware of an expected increase in “dingo-human interactions”, especially involving juvenile animals.
“This is a particularly important time for juvenile dingoes to test their strength, learn essential survival skills and to avoid habituation towards people,” it said.
Rangers estimate there are only 200 dingoes resident on the island however for a large number of annual visitors to be constantly threatened by these normally shy animals, it would appear their numbers are higher.
*Jim O’Toole has observed dingoes for many years while working on cattle and sheep properties across northern Australia.
“Get a gun and shoot the dingoes.”
Don’t be such a cowboy. lol It’s not their fault they got dumped in the wild and have to adapt and scramble for survival.
Unless they attack you, or are in uncontrolled numbers threatening you harm, give them a bit of room and time and let them become domesticated. Like wolves who turned into dogs and became man’s best friend.
It’s called evolution and it’s led to great progress in valuable cooperation between humans and animals.
If you wanna camp amongst the wild dingers simply take protective measures. Otherwise, just don’t freaking go amongst them. Lots of potentially dangerous or predatory animals live in the wild, that’s no reason to kill them when you see them unless they threaten you or you need to eat them.
It’s your grubbernment that makes you vulnerable and defenceless. Take it up with your grubbernment, don’t take it out on wilderness and nature and its challenges.
No Michael, you are the idiot. In fact get out of Australia. People like are the reason it went to hell.
The solution hasn’t changed in 500 years. Get a gun and shoot the dingoes. Never go into the woods and camping etc unarmed. Australians need to make big changes in social and political environments.
No one, including politicians and police, has a right to disarm Aussies and those who would try need to be disarmed or buried. It’s time real Aussies started taking their country and rights back.
HINT:
After WWI Australia formally adopted pro-gun policies and promoted shooting like in the USA after the PM at the time noticed how good the average American soldiers naturally were with firearms and shooting during the war. He went to the US and toured around to get ideas of what Australia could adopt that would be beneficial.
That’s what Australia needs again right now.
Didn’t see anything about Fraser Island on ABC recently. Editor
To those shaking in their thongs at the thought of dingoes on Fraser Island the best thing they can do is not go there, (do those of us who do go there and never have a problem because we respect the animals, listen to the rangers and read the signs a favour) – like the commenters here who clearly haven’t been there but know all about the island (pfft) because it was on the ABC.
There is no dingo problem on Fraser Island, period; there is an idiot problem, like here.
There is also a simple rule to living in Australia – if it is on the ABC it is propaganda. That shouldn’t need to be said. That it needs to be is rather sad.
One would think alt media readers would be aware of the Hegelian dialectic. That they are not is sad enough that they don’t even care to look into how governments operate (of which, public broadcasting is a central part) condemns them to idiocy.
In the mean time, don’t look up – that’s how you get bird flu. The media said so.
The dingoes need to be culled.
Joe Bogan said – “… but only apes will be able to use guns…”
… and any robot equipped with an opposable thumb.
Knives too. And butt-plugs and all manner of battery powered appliances, in case AnAL and Lurch and creepy Bill were wondering.
If Australians can’t handle it give it to the Vietnamese those dogs will all be gone by Xmas. Animals are getting smarter at doing human things and nobody told them they are supposed to be subservient, but only apes will be able to use guns
So many areas now in OUR OWN Country that many Australians are not able to go to ……….
And everytime I hear a story on dingoes I remember this atrocity >
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Lessons from the Chamberlain case: the human cost of wrongful conviction – The Azaria Chamberlain case is a reminder that the criminal justice system does get it wrong, with each error bearing its own human cost.
July 7, 2017
On Tuesday, the Northern Territory Coroner’s office concluded an inquest into the cause of death of baby Azaria Chamberlain near Uluru on the night of 17 August 1980. The finding: a dingo took the baby.
Despite the same determination in the original coronial inquest, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton was tried and found guilty of the child’s murder in one of the most public criminal cases in Australian history.
She was sentenced to life in prison and served nearly three years before new evidence and a Royal Commission Inquiry led to a pardon and reversal of her wrongful conviction.
The Chamberlain-Creighton conviction was based largely on the use of unreliable or improper forensic science during the trial. But the Chamberlain case is only one example of wrongful conviction following a flawed criminal trial.
Many have been sent to jail or even executed on the basis of faulty evidence despite their innocence.
Innocence lost >
https://feministlegalstudies.wordpress.com/2017/07/07/lessons-from-the-chamberlain-case-the-human-cost-of-wrongful-conviction/
There’s a reason why so much of the third world is being reloacted to the First World. Check it out here:
https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/unpd-egm_200010_un_2001_replacementmigration.pdf
There has been at least one death on Fraser Island. A couple of kids went for a walk. A dingo attacked. one kid ran back to the parents and the father went looking for the other kid. Guts ripped out by a dingo. No dingos were shot.
Hey folks,
Word on the street is there’s no shortage of Dingoes across Asia and the sub-continent, certainly no danger of extinction. So why get so stressed about them, we can always ship shitloads more in at a moment’s notice.
Kind of like AnAL is trucking in MILLIONS more “First Nations” folk, without even asking the ones who are already here for their permission, let alone the rest of us living in cars and in tents under bridges.
Too soon?
Its not just dingo’s , there is a similar dog problem in the Vic high country where packs of wild dogs have maimed and killed livestock, I wouldn’t travel to the high country in Vic. without a firearm, whenever I go up there the trusty 223 or 308 is with me.
Youse mean to say they wuzn’t the pets of the “1st Nations” tribes when they first migrated and settled in Oz?
Dingoes are a separate breed to dogs. Supposedly, the Dingo shares a common ancestor with the Chinese wolf. dogs are directly related to the Grey Wolf. A female Dingo can have simultaneous pregnancies to multiple fathers. A Dingo female most usually rejects a dog that wants to mate when on heat. A female dog will not usually reject a male Dingo.
Dogs have a fifth claw on their front legs, higher up, like a thumb, Dingo’s only have four.
The Kelpie has 3-4% Dingo genes. The first Kelpie, actually called Kelpie, was a multiple time agility champion and very intelligent, and is rumored to have been fathered by a dingo. Kelpies were called ‘Kelpies pups’ until around the 1930’s, they were sought after for agility competitions, they have breeds like Scottish Collie in them, Kelpies are real mongrels (that is what I call mine when they piss me off being too noisy).
Dingoes and related breeds are spread right throughout South East Asia. They are definitely not native, they have just been here a long time.
So, cull them.
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The author said – “… Sooner or later there will be a fatality as rangers warn visitors to keep away from marauding packs of dogs after four attacks in one week…”
That horse already bolted a few years back as I recall.
SO the precedent has already been set, these Indian wild dogs are just biding their time and quietly planning their next hit.
Can’t really blame them if we want to be brutally frank about it, they’re stranded and all alone and a long long LONG way from home.
Dingos on Fraser Island should be culled; they are not a native animal being brought here by the Indian Aboriginals about 4,230 years ago when they migrated down though Sulawesi picking up their native dog and bringing it with them. All native animals are either Marsupial of monotremes and not marsupials.
The last Thylacine on the mainland was dated at about 3,500 years ago who in 500 years had bred into large packs that hunted and killed the solitary living Thylacines along with the Tasmanian Devil. Early pioneers report miners and explores disappearing they believed from dingo predation, dingos preferred cattle and sheep as they were slower and easier to kill than fastmoving Kangaroos and burrowing animals. Remember baby Azaria Chamberlain killed and eaten by Dingos, when will a child be kill on Fraser Island.
They are one of the most intelligent of dogs and their blood lines have made or stock working dogs some of the worlds best, they must be kept for breeding but must be removed from the wild where they are just another dangerous destructive feral animal no different to wild pigs, horses, camels and buffaloes.
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