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Wednesday, Wednesday, January January 13, 27, 2016 2016
IN THE FAST LANE: Horsham Regional Art Gallery will return to its Wilson Street home, with the public able to visit at the weekend. Renovations to the gallery are part of Horsham Town Hall redevelopment. Pictured is gallery administrator Leticia Parker, education officer Debbie Moar, curator Alison Eggleton and director Adam Harding preparing for the offical opening on Friday night. For more on the newlook gallery, page 5. Picture: KELLY LAIRD
Kangaroo cull call
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ember for Lowan Emma Kealy has called for a kangaroo cull program, using the meat for pet food, to be expanded in the Wimmera.
A State Government trial involving Ararat, Horsham, Northern Grampians, Yarriambiack, Southern Grampians and Pyrenees local government areas is due to conclude in June.
Ms Kealy wants to see the program introduced permanently or the trial extended to include West Wimmera Shire. The culling program will be on the agenda when Ms Kealy hosts Nationals leader Peter Walsh on Friday. Water management issues and how they affect livestock producers will also be a focal point of the visit. The pair will visit Horsham,
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Longerenong College, Balmoral, Hamilton and Casterton. Ms Kealy said the kangaroo culling trial was a fantastic program.
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“It’s created 12 jobs at the Hamilton abattoirs, where they are processing the meat for pet food,” she said. Ms Kealy said landowners could obtain licences to shoot
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kangaroos on their properties or they could employ licensed shooters to kill the kangaroos for processing. “We want to extend the program because they are a huge problem in the Glenelg and West Wimmera shires,” she said. “We’d like to make it permanent or extended because it’s working to reduce kangaroo numbers.”
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Ms Kealy said she and Mr Walsh would discuss water resource management, seasonal conditions and road surfaces with people within the Lowan electorate. “I have been receiving an increasing number of water related inquiries and concerns, which is a reflection that our region is hurting during these dry seasonal conditions,” she said.
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“There are many conflicting demands for our scarce water supply and we need to ensure water management is efficient, that losses are minimised and investment is made for pipeline solutions to drought proof our local areas. “Many farmers are carting water for stock and domestic purposes and, in some cases, are selling stock as a result of no water.”