Labor governments are committed to your personal security…

Which is why Miss Palaszczuk’s brightest have devised this innovative citizen-safety technology:
Visitors to Fraser Island are being armed with government-issued ‘dingo sticks’ to fight off wild dogs as a hunt for the animals responsible for the latest terrifying attack ramps up.

Bins filled with PVC pipes fashioned into dingo-repelling weapons and dingo safety warnings have been installed at resorts and campsites on the World Heritage-listed island by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.

The dangerous pests should be wiped out. The dingoes, I mean – not just the Labor governments.
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23 Responses to Labor governments are committed to your personal security…

  1. C.L. says:

    Fraser Island dingo attack: Government arming tourists to tackle threat.

    Visitors to K’gari (Fraser Island) are being armed with government-issued “dingo sticks” to fight off wild dogs as the hunt for the animals responsible for the latest terrifying attack ramps up.

    Bins filled with PVC pipes fashioned into dingo-repelling weapons and dingo safety warnings have been installed at resorts and campsites on the World Heritage-listed island by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.

    K’gari’s dingo-proof fence network, complete with electrified wire and grids, was also recently extended amid increasing attacks and aggressive behaviour from rogue elements of the island’s 100-200-strong dingo population.

    The beefed-up safety measures come as 23-year-old Brisbane woman Sarah Peet remains in hospital after she was viciously set upon by a pack of dingoes while jogging on 75 Mile Beach on K’gari on Monday morning.

    Ms Peet, an urban designer with the Moreton Bay Regional Council, was “corralled” into the water by the dogs in a savage attack that left her with up to 30 bites including a deep laceration to her arm.

    Two men in a 4WD stopped to rescue her, punching the dingoes with their bare hands to get them off her.

    One of the animals responsible has been identified as one of three dingoes fitted with GPS tracking collars by rangers following recent attacks, including one on a 6-year-old girl who was dragged into the water at Waddy Point in April.

    The Courier-Mail visited K’gari last week and saw another of the collared dogs tearing into a tent and prowling beach campsites with a female companion.

    Campers who were off exploring the island when the dingoes entered but returned to find their tent shredded were shocked at the animals’ boldness.

    “It’s quite intimidating seeing the dogs … and they’re not small dogs,” NSW visitor Tom Jenner said as we showed him the vision of the dingo attacking his tent.

    Another Eli Creek camper said he had seen a dingo tear open a swag tent, pull out a pillow and rip it to shreds on the beach.

    Dingos have been circling and chasing 4WDs and even joy flight planes landing and taking off from the beach.

    Air Fraser Island pilot Bailey Hiscox said the dingoes were “a lot more aggressive this year than they were last year”, especially around Eli Creek, and rangers had put out buckets of dingo sticks.

    “Now that Covid’s finished, a lot more people are on the island,” he said.

    “That means a lot more tourists, a lot more people who aren’t quite aware about being dingo safe. That can obviously increase the attacks.

    “I have had a few dingoes that like to chase the plane. If the dingoes do get in the way of the plane, we just abort the takeoff.”

    Toby McGrath, 15, and Bailey Kotzur, 16, who were visiting K’gari last week with their families from Wagga Wagga in southern NSW, armed themselves with dingo sticks for a walk on the beach after a close encounter with a dingo during their stay.

    “This kid was sitting down on the beach at Eli Creek and we were all yelling at him because we could see a dingo near him … next thing you know, it was right next to him,” Toby said.

    “It’s a bit of a worry. It’s interesting to see the dingoes in the wild but also a bit scary because you’ve got to watch your back.”

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    Greg Stolz in The Courier Mail

  2. NFA says:

    Why is it not closed to the public?

  3. jupes says:

    Haha! When I was a little tacker, I sometimes (often?) walked the couple of blocks to kindy on my own. In October, when I was attacked by magpies from the park, my mum issued me with a ‘magpie stick’. Ahead of her time!

  4. Tel says:

    Surprising that the Australian government trusts citizens to own a stick.

  5. shatterzzz says:

    Remove the apostrophy! .. that’s what’s triggering the dogs .. LOL!

  6. Christine says:

    “dingo-repelling” weapons
    “don’t walk alone” (from Premier P. et al)
    More aggressive than last year?
    Such a shame
    after Fraser was given that new name with the stolen apostrophe.

  7. Perplexed of Brisbane says:

    A ‘Dingo Stick’ in .223 should do the trick. Or .308 if you want to be sure to be sure. Or apply rule .303.

  8. rosie says:

    And if you belt a dingo you’ll be up on animal cruelty charges.

  9. cuckoo says:

    Lawsuit from PETA in 3…2…

    Shades of the Monty Python sketch about defending yourself against someone attacking you with a banana. Or Dad’s Army doing rifle drill with broomsticks and shouting ‘bang!’ Or that European safety video about women defending themselves from mu$l!m rapists by making a ‘stop’ gesture.

    Has anyone asked the Voice for ancient aboriginal wisdom about how to deal with dingoes?

  10. Eyrie says:

    after Fraser was given that new name with the stolen apostrophe.
    The fact that the new name is written is a bad case of cultural appropriation. The abos never invented writing.

  11. Ed Case says:

    Why is it not closed to the public?

    That’s the long term Plan.
    Australia’s purest pack of Dingoes.
    Scientists want the Island closed so they can study the cuddly little fellers.

    It’s been a long slog.
    First they got rid of the cattle.
    Then they got rid of the Timber Industry.
    Then they got rid of everyone that wasn’t working in the Tourist Industry
    A few more attacks and it will be

    Well, people won’t behave responsibly around Dingoes, so we’ve gotta shut the Island down.

    Labor is too canny to shut the place down, but the next LNP Government has likely already made the call.

  12. C.L. says:

    The dogs should be re-located if possible – or shot. Every one of them.

    How would a stick have helped the poor woman stalked and mauled by an entire pack?

  13. Ed Case says:

    Pure genetics i’m afraid.
    Those Dingoes are sacred to our New Class.
    On the brighter side, they believe in Eugenics, just not for people.

  14. Jannie says:

    Two men in a 4WD stopped to rescue her, punching the dingoes with their bare hands to get them off her.

    Men again.

  15. Riversutra says:

    Or apply rule .303.

    Nah, I’d use the USMC Mark 19 40mm Automatic Grenade Launcher but probably not wise to hand those out to civilian tourists.
    The park management could make a killing ( yeah, I know) renting out some full metal sub machine Gel Blasters like the Classic Army MP5SD .
    Forget paintball, this will really bring in a whole new class of weekend (warriors).

  16. Ed Case says:

    Got a shock when I first saw Dingoes at Taronga Park.
    I was expecting something the size of a Blue Heeler, not a short haired dog as tall as a German Shepherd.

  17. NFA says:

    If you want ‘wild dogs’ go up in the Brindabella Ranges!

    I actually don’t believe the breed purity of the Fraser Island “dingo”.

    The pack actions are not normal and is typical of ‘wild dogs’ let alone some breeds that are well known to maul and kill people.

    Years back the green communists were seeding Fraser Island with mongrel breeds to stop all sorts of activity.

    Sand mine and strip the bloody joint or carry out aerial baiting.

  18. John Brumble says:

    At some point Fraser Island will be closed except for the western side resort. Most Australians will not be allowed to see it at all except via special bus tours. No getting off the bus. Indigenous people will be paid millions to “caretake” the island.

  19. Perplexed of Brisbane says:

    Riversutra says:
    19 July, 2023 at 12:45 pm
    Or apply rule .303.

    Nah, I’d use the USMC Mark 19 40mm Automatic Grenade Launcher but probably not wise to hand those out to civilian tourists.
    The park management could make a killing ( yeah, I know) renting out some full metal sub machine Gel Blasters like the Classic Army MP5SD .
    Forget paintball, this will really bring in a whole new class of weekend (warriors).

    I like your style.

  20. Ed Case says:

    At some point Fraser Island will be closed except for the western side resort.
    okay.
    Most Australians will not be allowed to see it at all except via special bus tours.
    I think they’ll just shut it to the General Public altogether.
    Indigenous people will be paid millions to “caretake” the island.
    Perhaps, but they won’t be living on the Island

  21. NFA says:

    Fraser Island (Jurassic Park) complete with Dinosaur Dingo Dogs!

  22. Petros says:

    The dingoes on Kn’Fraser were small and timid back in the seventies and eighties. These ones nowadays look like mongrels.

  23. NFA says:

    what Petros says 19 July, 2023 at 7:13 pm

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