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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 The Art of the Colonial Kangaroo Hunt
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'Since the beginnings of settler occupation in Australia, the kangaroo has been claimed at once as a national symbol and as a type of vermin to be destroyed en masse. In Kate Clere McIntyre and Michael McIntyre’s recent award-winning film, Kangaroo: A Love Hate Story, Sydney academic Peter Chen sums up this stark contradiction: “Kangaroos are wonderful, fuzzy, they’re maternal, and they’re also a pest that should be eliminated wholesale”.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon The Conversation 31 August 2018 14441715 2018 newspaper issue 2018 Section: Friday essay
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