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ARCHIVE - Shot In The Dark, Australia's Kangaroo Massacre

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SLAUGHTERED FOR SKINS, MEAT, PET FOOD
Australia’s commercial 2007 kangaroo kill quota was just over 3.6 million animals. Some skins and meat products are used domestically and 60 to 70% of kangaroo meat goes into the Australian pet food market. The rest is exported to 55 countries as leather or meat for human consumption.

Kangaroo leather is widely used in the manufacture of sporting shoes and gloves as well as in dress shoes and accessory manufacture.


TOP LEFT PHOTO: Joeys are kept in the mother’s pouch for nine months. Many mother kangaroos are shot for their fur and meat in the commercial kangaroo slaughter which claims the lives of over 3 million kangaroos every year. Animals Australia, the voice for animals

BOTTOM LEFT: No statistics are available for animals who are wounded and escape only to endure a long painful death. Even conservative estimates suggest that at least 4% of adult kangaroos commercially processed each year, or around 100,000 carcasses, show evidence that they were not humanely shot in the head as is required by the kangaroo industry Code of Practice. Shot Kangaroos. Animals Australia



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Honorable Officials of Australia,

Australia’s assault on its national icon is disgraceful. In May 2009, the Department of Defense began to gun down 7,000 kangaroos on its vast Majura military base in Canberra, ACT. By 5/14/09, with 3500 already dead, a court issued injunction temporarily stopped the massacre.

Wildlife culls are permitted to take up to 10,000 kangaroos per night. Where is the Australian government’s moral compass? Please stop authorized culls and commercial kills. I urge officials to respect and accommodate indigenous wildlife with more national parks, nature reserves, and protected land corridors for animals to get there.

In Australia, the internationally beloved kangaroo has become an article of trade — to buy and sell by way of violent death. A 4/23/09 Daily Telegraph report says "tens of thousands of joeys will be decapitated, shot or clubbed to death" under government orders to open commercial shoots across a generous swath of New South Wales.

The National Code of Practice for the Humane Shooting of Kangaroos and Wallabies advises that babies found in a slain mother’s pouch be decapitated with a sharp blade, clubbed with a metal pipe, or slammed against a firm object. Older joeys are bludgeoned or shot at point blank range.

Hunters spotlight kangaroos in the outback at night. They aim for their brains, but often miss and leave kangaroos with gaping head and mouth wounds. Along with nearly four million kangaroos commercially killed each year, hundreds of thousands of joeys die hideously.

I respectfully ask the government to phase out its consumptive use of kangaroos and consider eco-tourism instead. Plainly stated, Australia’s largest known slaughter of land wildlife is sickening.

Thank you,

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AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
The Hon Kevin Rudd MP, Prime Minister
PO Box 6022 / House of Representatives
Parliament House / Canberra ACT 2600
ph: 02 6277 7700, fax: 02 6273 4100
web form: www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm
SOURCE: www.kevinpm.com.au
www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?id=83T


The Hon. Peter Garrett AM MP
Minister, Environment, Heritage and the Arts

PO Box 6022, Parliament House; Canberra ACT 2600
ph: 02-6277-7640, fax: 02-6273-6101
email: Peter.Garrett.MP@aph.gov.au
form: aph.gov.au/house/members/memfeedback.asp? id=HV4
SOURCE: www.environment.gov.au/minister/garrett/index.html
www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?id=HV4


Ruth Dewsbury, Public Affairs:
ruth.dewsbury@environment.gov.au, ciu@environment.gov.au

Kerry Smith, Assistant Secretary, Wildlife Division
Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
GPO Box 787 / Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
ph: 61 02-6274 1224, fax: 61 02-6274 1600
email: kerry.smith@deh.gov.au

Peter Cochrane, Director of National Parks
Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
GPO Box 787 / Canberra ACT 2601
ph: 02-6274 2221, fax 02-6274 2349
email: peter.cochrane@environment.gov.au
Bruce Leaver, First Assistant Secretary:
bruce.leaver@environment.gov.au
SOURCE: environment.gov.au/about/structure/pa/index.html
www.directory.gov.au


Dept. of Environment and Climate Change NSW
PO Box A290 / Sydney South NSW 1232, Australia
ph: 02-9995-5000, fax: 02-9995 5999
email: info@environment.nsw.gov.au
SOURCE: www.environment.nsw.gov.au/ help/feedback.htm

NSW National Parks And Wildlife Services
NPWS Kangaroo Management Unit

PO Box 2111 / Dubbo NSW 2830
fax: 02-6884-8675
email: kangaroo.management@environment.nsw.gov.au
SOURCE: environment.nsw.gov.au/contact/kangaroomanagementsection.htm
nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/parks.nsf/Contacts/C147? OpenDocument


MORE AUSTRALIAN OFFICIALS: www.directory.gov.au
INCLUDES: Government Departments and Agencies;
Commonwealth Parliament; Governor General; Courts/Judges


INDUSTRY
Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia
PO Box 447 / Woden ACT, AUSTRALIA 2606
ph: 03 6326 8639, fax: 03 6326 2790
email: kiaa@bigpond.net.au
SOURCE: www.kangaroo-industry.asn.au/about.html
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Australian Embassy, United States of America
Mr. Dennis J. Richardson AO,
Ambassador to United States of America
1601 Massachusetts Ave. / Washington DC NW 20036-2273
ph: 1 202 797 3000, fax: 1 202 797 3331
email: public.affairsus@dfat.gov.au
SOURCE: www.usa.embassy.gov.au

AUSTRALIAN EMBASSIES IN MORE COUNTRIES
www.dfat.gov.au/missions

AUSTRALIAN OFFICIALS — BY TERRITORY
NEW SOUTH WALES

The Hon. Ian Macdonald
Level 33 Governor Macquarie Tower
1 Farrer Place / Sydney NSW 2000
ph: 02 9228 3344, fax: 02 9228 3452
email: macdonald.office@macdonald.minister.nsw.gov.au

TASMANIA TERRITORY
The Honorable David Llewellyn
Minister for Primary Industries and Water
GPO Box 44 Hobart /  Tasmania, Australia 7001
ph: 6233 6454, fax: 6233 2272
email: David.Llewellyn@dpiw.tas.gov.au
Wildlife Management: wildlife.enq@dpiw.tas.gov.au
SOURCE: www.premier.tas.gov.au/cabinet

NORTHERN TERRITORY
The Honorable Alison Anderson
Minister for Natural Resources, Environment
and Heritage / Minister for Parks and Wildlife
GPO Box 3146; Darwin NT 0801
ph: 61 08 8901 4132, fax: 61 08 8901 4134
email: alison.anderson@nt.gov.au

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
David Papps, Chief Executive
Penny Farnsworth, Executive Director
Department of Environment, Climate Change, Energy and Water
GPO Box 158 / Canberra City ACT 2601
ph: 13 22 81, fax: 02 6207 6084
email: environment@act.gov.au
SOURCE: www.environment.act.gov.au/about_us

QUEENSLAND
Department of Environment and Resource Management
Mr John Bradley, Director-General
GPO Box 24254 / Brisbane, QLD, 4001
Scott Spencer, Associate Director-General:
scott.spencer@nrw.qld.gov.au
Terry Wall Associate Director-General: terry.wall@epa.qld.gov.au
SOURCE: www.qgd.qld.gov.au/dirgen/dirgen.html

WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Department of Environment and Conservation
Director General and Environmental Services Divisions
168 St Georges Terrace PERTH
Locked Bag 104 / Bentley Delivery Centre 6983
ph: 08 6467 5000, fax: 08 6467 5572

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AUSTRALIAN OFFICIALS
Peter.Garrett.MP@aph.gov.au, ruth.dewsbury@environment.gov.au, ciu@environment.gov.au, kerry.smith@deh.gov.au, peter.cochrane@environment.gov.au, bruce.leaver@environment.gov.au, info@environment.nsw.gov.au, kangaroo.management@environment.nsw.gov.au, kiaa@bigpond.net.au, public.affairsus@dfat.gov.au

AUSTRALIAN OFFICIALS — BY TERRITORY
macdonald.office@macdonald.minister.nsw.gov.au, David.Llewellyn@dpiw.tas.gov.au, wildlife.enq@dpiw.tas.gov.au, alison.anderson@nt.gov.au, environment@act.gov.au, terry.wall@epa.qld.gov.au

NEW SOUTH WALES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES > NEW SOUTH WALES:
Tony.Abbott.MP@aph.gov.au, A.Albanese.MP@aph.gov.au, Bob.Baldwin.MP@aph.gov.au, Sharon.Bird.MP@aph.gov.au, Bronwyn.Bishop.MP@aph.gov.au, Chris.Bowen.MP@aph.gov.au, David.Bradbury.MP@aph.gov.au, Tony.Burke.MP@aph.gov.au, Jason.Clare.MP@aph.gov.au, John.Cobb.MP@aph.gov.au, Greg.Combet.MP@aph.gov.au, Mark.Coulton.MP@aph.gov.au, Bob.Debus.MP@aph.gov.au, Justine.Elliot.MP@aph.gov.au, Pat.Farmer.MP@aph.gov.au, Laurie.Ferguson.MP@aph.gov.au, J.Fitzgibbon.MP@aph.gov.au, Joanna.Gash.MP@aph.gov.au, Jennie.George.MP@aph.gov.au, Sharon.Grierson.MP@aph.gov.au, Jill.Hall.MP@aph.gov.au, Luke.Hartsuyker.MP@aph.gov.au, Alex.Hawke.MP@aph.gov.au, Chris.Hayes.MP@aph.gov.au, J.Hockey.MP@aph.gov.au, Kay.Hull.MP@aph.gov.au, Julia.Irwin.MP@aph.gov.au, Mike.Kelly.MP@aph.gov.au, Sussan.Ley.MP@aph.gov.au, Louise.Markus.MP@aph.gov.au, R.McClelland.MP@aph.gov.au, Maxine.McKew.MP@aph.gov.au, D.Melham.MP@aph.gov.au, scott.morrison.mp@aph.gov.au, John.Murphy.MP@aph.gov.au, Belinda.Neal.MP@aph.gov.au, B.Nelson.MP@aph.gov.au, Robert.OakeshottMP@aph.gov.au, Julie.Owens.MP@aph.gov.au, Tanya.Plibersek.MP@aph.gov.au, Rogerpricemp@aph.gov.au, philip.ruddock.MP@aph.gov.au, Janelle.Saffin.MP@aph.gov.au, Alby.Schultz.MP@aph.gov.au, Craig.Thomson.MP@aph.gov.au, Malcolm.Turnbull.MP@aph.gov.au, Danna.Vale.MP@aph.gov.au, Tony.Windsor.MP@aph.gov.au

SENATORS > NEW SOUTH WALES:
senator.arbib@aph.gov.au, senator.cameron@aph.gov.au, senator.coonan@aph.gov.au, senator.faulkner@aph.gov.au, senator.fierravanti-wells@aph.gov.au, senator.forshaw@aph.gov.au, senator.heffernan@aph.gov.au, senator.hutchins@aph.gov.au, senator.nash@aph.gov.au, senator.payne@aph.gov.au, senator.stephens@aph.gov.au, senator.williams@aph.gov.au

TASMANIA
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES > TASMANIA:
D.Adams.MP@aph.gov.au, Jodie.Campbell.MP@aph.gov.au, Julie.Collins.MP@aph.gov.au, Duncan.Kerr.MP@aph.gov.au, Sid.Sidebottom.MP@aph.gov.au

SENATORS > TASMANIA:
senator.abetz@aph.gov.au, senator.barnett@aph.gov.au, senator.bilyk@aph.gov.au, senator.carol.brown@aph.gov.au, senator.bushby@aph.gov.au, senator.colbeck@aph.gov.au, senator.milne@aph.gov.au, senator.obrien@aph.gov.au, senator.parry@aph.gov.au, senator.polley@aph.gov.au, senator.sherry@aph.gov.au

NORTHERN TERRITORY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES > NORTHERN TERRITORY:
Damian.Hale.MP@aph.gov.au, Warren.Snowdon.MP@aph.gov.au

SENATORS > NORTHERN TERRITORY:
senator.crossin@aph.gov.au, senator.scullion@aph.gov.au

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES > AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY:
Annette.Ellis.MP@aph.gov.au, Bob.McMullan.MP@aph.gov.au

SENATORS > AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY:
senator.humphries@aph.gov.au, senator.lundy@aph.gov.au

QUEENSLAND
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES > QUEENSLAND:
Arch.Bevis.MP@aph.gov.au, James.Bidgood.MP@aph.gov.au, Steven.Ciobo.MP@aph.gov.au, Yvette.D'Ath.MP@aph.gov.au, Peter.Dutton.MP@aph.gov.au, Craig.Emerson.MP@aph.gov.au, Michael.Johnson.MP@aph.gov.au, Bob.Katter.MP@aph.gov.au, Andrew.Laming.MP@aph.gov.au, Peter.Lindsay.MP@aph.gov.au, Kirsten.Livermore.MP@aph.gov.au, Ian.Macfarlane.MP@aph.gov.au, Margaret.May.MP@aph.gov.au, Shayne.Neumann.MP@aph.gov.au, P.Neville.MP@aph.gov.au, Graham.Perrett.MP@aph.gov.au, Brett.Raguse.MP@aph.gov.au, Bonner.eo@aph.gov.au, Bernie.Ripoll.MP@aph.gov.au, Stuart.Robert.MP@aph.gov.au, Bruce.Scott.MP@aph.gov.au, Peter.Slipper.MP@aph.gov.au, Alex.Somlyay.MP@aph.gov.au, Jon.Sullivan.MP@aph.gov.au, Wayne.Swan.MP@aph.gov.au, Chris.Trevor.MP@aph.gov.au, W.Truss.MP@aph.gov.au, Jim.Turnour.MP@aph.gov.au

SENATORS > QUEENSLAND:
senator.boswell@aph.gov.au, senator.sue.boyce@aph.gov.au, senator.brandis@aph.gov.au, senator.furner@aph.gov.au, senator.hogg@aph.gov.au, senator.joyce@aph.gov.au, senator.ludwig@aph.gov.au, senator.ian.macdonald@aph.gov.au, senator.mason@aph.gov.au, senator.mclucas@aph.gov.au, senator.moore@aph.gov.au, senator.trood@aph.gov.au

WESTERN AUSTRALIA
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES > WESTERN AUSTRALIA:
Julie.Bishop.MP@aph.gov.au, Gary.Gray.MP@aph.gov.au, Barry.Haase.MP@aph.gov.au, Steve.Irons.MP@aph.gov.au, Sharryn.Jackson.MP@aph.gov.au, Dennis.Jensen.MP@aph.gov.au, Michael.Keenan.MP@aph.gov.au, Nola.Marino.MP@aph.gov.au, J.Moylan.MP@aph.gov.au, Mparke.MP@aph.gov.au, Don.Randall.MP@aph.gov.au, Luke.Simpkins.MP@aph.gov.au, Stephen.Smith.MP@aph.gov.au, W.Tuckey.MP@aph.gov.au, Mal.Washer.MP@aph.gov.au

SENATORS> WESTERN AUSTRALIA:
senator.adams@aph.gov.au, senator.back@aph.gov.au, senator.bishop@aph.gov.au, senator.cash@aph.gov.au, senator.cormann@aph.gov.au, senator.eggleston@aph.gov.au, senator.evans@aph.gov.au, senator.johnston@aph.gov.au, senator.ludlam@aph.gov.au, senator.pratt@aph.gov.au, senator.siewert@aph.gov.au, senator.sterle@aph.gov.au

SOUTH AUSTRALIA
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES > SOUTH AUSTRALIA:
Mark.Butler.MP@aph.gov.au, Nick.Champion.MP@aph.gov.au, Kate.Ellis.MP@aph.gov.au, Steve.Georganas.MP@aph.gov.au, C.Pyne.MP@aph.gov.au, Rowan.Ramsey.MP@aph.gov.au, Amanda.Rishworth.MP@aph.gov.au, P.Secker@aph.gov.au, Andrew.Southcott.MP@aph.gov.au, Tony.Zappia.MP@aph.gov.au, Jamie.Briggs.MP@aph.gov.au

SENATORS > SOUTH AUSTRALIA:
senator.bernardi@aph.gov.au, senator.birmingham@aph.gov.au, senator.farrell@aph.gov.au, senator.ferguson@aph.gov.au, senator.fisher@aph.gov.au, senator.hanson-young@aph.gov.au, senator.hurley@aph.gov.au, senator.mcewen@aph.gov.au, senator.minchin@aph.gov.au, senator.wong@aph.gov.au, senator.wortley@aph.gov.au, senator.xenophon@aph.gov.au

VICTORIA
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES > VICTORIA:
Kevin.Andrews.MP@aph.gov.au, Fran.Bailey.MP@aph.gov.au, B.Billson.MP@aph.gov.au, Russell.Broadbent.MP@aph.gov.au, Anna.Burke.MP@aph.gov.au, Anthony.Byrne.MP@aph.gov.au, higgins@aph.gov.au, S.Crean.MP@aph.gov.au, Michael.Danby.MP@aph.gov.au, Mark.Dreyfus.MP@aph.gov.au, Martin.Ferguson.MP@aph.gov.au, J.Forrest.MP@aph.gov.au, P.Georgiou.MP@aph.gov.au, Steve.Gibbons.MP@aph.gov.au, Julia.Gillard.MP@aph.gov.au, Alan.Griffin.MP@aph.gov.au, David.Hawker.MP@aph.gov.au, Greg.Hunt.MP@aph.gov.au, Harry.Jenkins.MP@aph.gov.au, Catherine.King.MP@aph.gov.au, JMacklin.MP@aph.gov.au, Richard.Marles.MP@aph.gov.au, Darren.Chester.MP@aph.gov.au, Sophie.Mirabella.MP@aph.gov.au, Brendan.O'Connor.MP@aph.gov.au, Chris.Pearce.MP@aph.gov.au, Andrew.Robb.MP@aph.gov.au, Nicola.Roxon.MP@aph.gov.au, Bill.Shorten.MP@aph.gov.au, Tony.Smith.MP@aph.gov.au, S.Stone.MP@aph.gov.au, Mike.Symon.MP@aph.gov.au, Lindsay.Tanner.MP@aph.gov.au, Kelvin.Thomson.MP@aph.gov.au, Maria.Vamvakinou.MP@aph.gov.au, Jason.Wood.MP@aph.gov.au

SENATORS > VICTORIA: senator.carr@aph.gov.au, senator.collins@aph.gov.au, senator.conroy@aph.gov.au, senator.feeney@aph.gov.au, senator.fielding@aph.gov.au, senator.fifield@aph.gov.au, senator.kroger@aph.gov.au, senator.marshall@aph.gov.au, senator.mcgauran@aph.gov.au, senator.ronaldson@aph.gov.au, senator.ryan@aph.gov.au, senator.troeth@aph.gov.au

OFFICIALS WITH WEB FORMS:
Hon Kevin Rudd MP, Prime Minister: www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm
Hon. Peter Garrett, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts: aph.gov.au/house/members/memfeedback.asp? id=HV4
AUSTRALIAN EMBASSIES IN COUNTRIES OTHER THAN THE USA: www.dfat.gov.au/missions

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