This is really the final nail to the coffin for our kangaroos. If our government and the kangaroo industry cannot see that this will eventually lead to the extinction of one our countries most recognised and loved icons, they are blind and have not and never will learn from history and past mistakes. Killing wildlife for profit/consumption has never been sustainable and will ultimately lead to extinction. There is more money to me made and more jobs created by using our kangaroos for tourism than can ever be made by slaughtering them. Please open your eyes and think outside the square before we add the kangaroo to our list of extinctions in this country.

Two things - Firstly, there are no roo farmers! Kangaroos are wild animals harvested under licence to conservstion agencies, they are not farmed. Second, there is no evidence that commercial harvesting of roos is putting populations at risk. Less than 15% of the estmated population is allowed to be harvested in any one year, and this is not enough to put populations at risk.

Our government is totally environmentally naive and ignorant! They see only dollars and dollars and have no sense for wildlife that is only seen of value when dead! Don't they ever learn from history and that in the last 200 years over half of the world's extinctions are in Australia? Our wonderful kangaroos were already struggling! We are governed by greed and corruption! Our environmental record has not improved since colonial days.

Kangaroos are one of the animals that have increased because of farming in Australia. They have the ability to produce young when times are good and hold their young in bad times. The provision of high quality pastures has meant that kangaroo numbers have been increasing for years and the introduction of the gun laws has made it even more difficult to find people to cull the surplus. I would rather see these animals eaten as human food than fed to dogs or merely heaped up and burnt. Kangaroos are not stupid animals - if you have ever been involved in culling roos you would know that at the first shot they disipate into the bush very quickly. Nobody wants to exterminate kangaroos but some control is needed.

It's a well known fact that China has eaten and developed its way through its own wildlife to the point there is nothing left, absolutely nothing. The Rudd government is now taking our country down this same path. That the kangaroo killing industry chooses to feed this over-populated monster is not a surprise, it is a short-sighted profit driven industry run by short-sighted profit driven men who will stop at nothing to make a quick dollar even at the cost of destroying the last of our wildlife.

It's uninformed comments like these that give animal liberationists a bad name. Kangaroos are not going to become extinct any time soon. They are far better for the agricultural ecosystem than livestock, in that they don't degrade soils and cause erosion as hard hoofed animals do. Around 90% of Australia's original topsoil at the time of settlement is now sitting on the continental shelf out to sea. Farming kangaroos is a far more sensible choice. We as Australians need to eat kangaroo far more regularly. Take a step back and look at the bigger picture.

Wow what blessed ignorance from do gooders who have never packed a swag or seen the real Australia. A few ladies need to get out with a truckie or 2 or spend a bit of time on farms near National Parks. You need to see the pounded roo tracks and piles of manure. The holes in the fence and the droughts cockies keep whinging about are because the roos are eating all their feed. Do not worry about the loss of topsoil. There was very little here when white man brought his friendly cloven hooved animals. Don't worry about the extinction of the eastern grey kangaroo. Thousands of years hunting and burning by our predecessors could not do it and white man has fed and watered them to breed plague proportions. They are nocturnal you know so don't expect to see them driving around in daylight. Get a spotlight and go out at night. Our roos are a huge threat to our national food security and economy. They should be fenced into national parks so farmers are not robbed of their living anymore. Tourists can look at them there and if this industry is making so much money it can pay for the fencng and maintenance!

Carola and Vivienne: Game meat has been eaten in Europe for time immemorial, and there is still an abundance of the hunted species. In Australia and New Zealand, the major species extinctions due to overhunting appeared before European settlement, and nowadays scientific knowledge allows the sustainable management of species used for game meat.

What a sad day for Australia and for our grand children who will never see a kangaroo again in the wild.

Obviously 'Common Cents' has been indoctrinated by farmers' spin, if he is not one himself. The day I start getting my advice from truckies is the day I start believing in giant panthers, yetties and Bigfoot. It's men with guns who are a 'huge threat' to Australian wildlife and the safety of other Australians. Perhaps it is they who need to be fenced in.