Notes and Sources
Chapter 1. Shooters, Trappers and Poisoners
1.Brian Coman. Tooth and Nail: The story of the rabbit in Australia. Text Publishing Company, 2010 edition, pp.17–18.
2.The well-known Smorgon family also built a processing plant at Brooklyn, Victoria to export rabbit meat and tinned fruit. Rod Myer. ‘Smorgon, Norman (1884–1956)’. Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, (MUP), 2002.
3.Ernestine Hill. The Great Australian Loneliness, Robertson & Mullens, London, 1943, pp.336–338.
4.Edwin Waller. ‘Trapping Wild Dogs.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 17 January 1925, p.13.
5.‘Meeting of the Burnie Trades and Labor Council.’ Burnie Advocate, Tasmania, 5 June 1951, p.6.
6.‘Graziers Consider Rabbit Menace.’ Queensland Country Life, 9 March 1950, p.12.
7.Ernestine Hill. The Great Australian Loneliness, Angus and Robertson, 1940, p.299.
8.Edwin Waller. ‘Trapping Wild Dogs.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 17 January 1925, p.13.
9.M. Foster and R. Telford. Structure of the Australian Rabbit Industry: A Preliminary Analysis, ABARE report prepared for the Livestock and Pastoral Division, Department of Primary Industries and Energy, Canberra, 1996, pps.13–15. (See also Kent Williams, et al. Managing Vertebrate Pests: Rabbits. CSIRO, Australian Government Printing Service, Canberra, 1995, p.45.)
10.Max Foster. ‘Australian Farmed Rabbit.’ Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, 1999, p.vii.
Chapter 2. Sport Shooting and Rabbiting in England and Australia
1.H.V. Thompson. ‘The Rabbit in Britain.’ in The European Rabbit. The history and biology of a successful colonizer. H.V. Thompson and C.M. King, editors. Oxford University Press, 1994, pp.64–67.
2.Stuart Haddon-Riddoch. Rural Reflections. A Brief History of Traps, Trapmakers and Gamekeeping in Britain. Argyll Publishing, 2006 edition, p.37.
3.John Henry Walsh (‘Stonehenge.’). The Manual of British Rural Sports etc. 7th edition, 1867.
4.Anon. ‘Rabbit Shooting.’ The Farmers Manual. vol.6, January 1837, pp.3–5
5.Anon. ‘Rabbit Shooting.’
6.Tonks advertising material reads ‘X.J. Tonks, the oldest brand of Rabbit Trap sold in Australasia’, Stuart Haddon-Riddoch. Rural Reflections. A Brief History of Traps, Trapmakers and Gamekeeping in Britain. Argyll Publishing. 2006 edition, p.178–184.
7.H.V. Thompson. ‘The Rabbit in Britain.’ in The European Rabbit. The history and biology of a successful colonizer. H.V. Thompson and C.M. King, editors. Oxford University Press, 1994, pps.94–95.
8.Jackie Drakeford. ‘The Art of the Long-Netter.’ in Rabbit Control. Quiller, UK, 2002, pp.88–99.
9.H.V. Thompson. ‘The Rabbit in Britain.’ in The European Rabbit. The history and biology of a successful colonizer. H.V. Thompson and C.M. King, editors. Oxford University Press, 1994, pps.94–95.
10.Stuart Haddon-Riddoch. Rural Reflections. A Brief History of Traps, Trapmakers and Gamekeeping in Britain, pps.368–369.
11.Jackie Drakeford. ‘The Art of the Long-Netter.’ in Rabbit Control. Quiller, UK, 2002. pp.88–99. See also ‘Long Netting – Landmark Rabbit Management.’ Landmarkferret films. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGyITPg0I_A. 24 May 2013.
12.Peter W. Bartrip. Myxomatosis. A History of Pest Control and the Rabbit. Tauris Academic Studies, London, 2008, p.36–37.
13.‘The Duke of Edinburgh in Victoria.’ The Argus, 5 December 1867, p.5.
14.‘Prince Alfred in Victoria.’ The Argus, 1 March 1869, p.6.
15.‘Barwon Park.’ The Australasian. 13 June 1868, p.26.
16.Archduke Franz Ferdinand d’Este. Sydney Mail, 27 May 1893, p.1096.
17.Greg Pemberton. ‘Archduke’s bush slaughter.’ The Australian. 24–24 April 2011. p.8.
18.‘February Rabbit Shooting.’ Sydney Morning Herald. [excerpt from the National Observer]. 26 May 1896, p.2.
19.‘February Rabbit Shooting.’ 26 May 1896, p.2
20.‘February Rabbit Shooting.’ 26 May 1896, p.2
21.‘Rabbit Shooting.’ The Argus, 3 May 1910, p.7.
22.Henry Lawson. ‘A Hero in Dingo Scrubs.’ in Joe Wilson’s Mates, 1901, reprinted in Joe Wilson’s Mates, Lloyd O’Neil, 1970, p.176.
23.‘A sad shooting accident.’ The West Australian, 4 April 1896, page 5.
24.‘With a gun in the bush.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 9 June 1906, page 7.
25.F. Lassetter & Co., 1902 catalogue, p.75
26.‘Notes for Boys.’ The Argus, 6 April 1920, p.8
27.‘Notes for Boys.’ The Argus, 2 March 1920, p.5
28.‘Notes for Boys.’ The Argus, 2 March 1920, p.5.
29.‘The Deadly Pea-rifle.’ The Argus, 26 November 1912, p.10. Also called saloon guns and air-guns.
30.The ‘Quackenbush safety cartridge rifle’ .22 rifle sold for 32/6 (2014 equivalent $228) in 1905. Illustrated in the 1905 Feldheim, Gottheim catalogue, p.9 and the 1902 F. Lasseter & Co. catalogue, p.80. ‘Air Guns’ were also available for shooting pellets and darts.
31.Rabbit skins exports were 105,569 CWT in 1906, 100,802 CWT in 1907. Official Yearbook, Commonwealth of Australia, 1901–1908, p.357.
32.‘With the Gun.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 27 September 1910, p.9.
33.‘With a gun in the bush.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 9 June 1906, p.7.
34.‘Casualties and Fatalities.’ The Argus, 29 May 1920, p.23.
35.‘Stray Bullet Wounds Baby.’ The Argus, 14 January 1952, p.3.
36.‘Fool shooters.’ Burra Record (South Australia), 6 December 1938, p.2.
37.‘Shooting Rabbits by Spotlight.’ The Advertiser (Adelaide), 5 November 1925, p.20.
38.‘Train Passengers Injured.’ Kalgoorlie Western Argus, 17 March 1931, p.16.
39.‘Rabbit Shooter’s Mistake.’ Examiner (Launceston), 12 May 1906, p.3.
Chapter 3. The Australian Skin Trade
1.The skins of southern marsupial moles were a trading item amongst the Aboriginal peoples of the Finke/Aputula/Bloods Creek region in the early decades of the 20th century. The golden fur was used for coat trims and muffs. Ken Johnson. ‘The mole who comes from the sun.’ Wildlife Australia. Spring, 1991, pp.8–9. See also H. Ehmann and M. Watson. Southern Marsupial Mole. South Australian Arid Lands Natural Resources Management Board, 2011.
2.A Narrabri NSW correspondent, Hugh Barrett, recalls a court appearance for a defendant charged with killing and eating a platypus. When challenged about the taste of the monotreme, the offender replied it was ‘somewhere between a koala and a dolphin.’ ‘Column 8.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 24 August 2015, p.15.
3.R.W. Martin and K.A. Handassyde. The Koala. Natural History, Conservation and Management. UNSW Press, 1999, p.23. In the same year, possum pelts were selling for 18 pence [$11 equivalent in 2014].
4.A. Lee and R.W. Martin. The Koala. A Natural History. NSW University Press, 1988, p.83.
5.Pseudonym for A. H. Davis, 1868–1935.
6.www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/sharedassets/public/plants_and_animals/pa-fact-koalaspastandpresent.pdf 18 February 2011.
7.R.W. Martin and K.A. Handassyde. The Koala. Natural History, Conservation and Management, 1999, p.23.
8.‘Koala Skins in America.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 15 February 1940, p.4.
9.Richard Neville. Mr J.W. Lewin, Painter & Naturalist, New South Publishing, 2012, p.151.
10.‘Buggy Rug.’ http://static.tmag.tas.gov.au/decorativeart/objects/misc/P2002.63/index.html. 10 August 2012.
11.George Patterson’s Tasmanian Fur Depot, 75 George Street, Launceston was offering a Tasmanian tiger hearth mat in 1908. ‘Tasmanian Furs.’ Launceston Examiner, 6 March 1908, p.7.
12.R.G. Kimber. Walter Smith. Australian Bushman. Artlunga Hotel and Bush Resort and Hesperian Press, 2nd edition, 1996. p.49.
13.‘Australian rugs and furs.’ South Australian Register, 20 May 1895, p.6. The items were manufactured by H. Lawrance, furrier, Rundle Street, Adelaide.
14.G.B. Eggleton. Last of the Lantern Swingers, A Story of the Rabbit Industry in Sunraysia [Victoria], Parraweena Publishing, 1982, p.33.
15.Australian Encyclopaedia. vol .1, Grolier Society, 1962, p.236.
16.Australian Encyclopaedia. vol .1, p.236. A claim not supported by the Australian Statistical Yearbook.
17.David G. Stead. The Rabbit in Australia, Sydney, 1935, p.100.
18.David G. Stead. The Rabbit in Australia, p.102.
19.David G. Stead. The Rabbit in Australia, p.101.
20.Without, however, the ultimate commercial value of a beaver pelt. Tom Gara. ‘Doggers in the North West.’ (SA), www.researchgate.net/publication/268028332_DOGGERS_IN_THE_NORTH-WEST (2005). 10 May 2012.
21.‘Australian rugs and furs.’ South Australian Register, 20 May 1895, p.6. These items were manufactured by H. Lawrance, furrier, Rundle Street, Adelaide.
22.‘Syd.’ ‘Unwanted Victims. The Dingo Trap.’ Brisbane Sunday Mail, 3 September 1933, p.6. Rane Willerslev’s 2007 Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs writes of animist Siberian hunters who wear the skins of the animals they seek to kill.
23.Ray and Dallas Maple Family collection. National Museum of Australia, oai:nma.gov.au:4:1155, 2006.0047.0001.
Chapter 4. Feral. The Outlaw Animal
1.Don Watson. The Bush. Penguin Random House Australia, 2014, p.43.
2.K. Lapidge, M. Braysher and S. Sarre. (2004-present) www.feral.org.au. 13 March 2012.
3.‘Terms of Discourse.’ The editors, Journal of Animal Ethics. vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2011, pp. vii-ix.
4.Ed Yong. ‘As One.’ [Swarming]. Wired, 21 April 2013, pps.104–111, 136.
5.Justin E. H. Smith. ‘The Criminal Trial of Animals. A Case Study in Shame.’ www.jehsmith.com/philosophy/2012/12/the-criminal-trial-of-animals-a-case-study-in-shame-and-necessity.html. 6 March 2013. Also in Andreas Blank (ed.), Animals: New Essays. Munich, Philosophia Verlag, 2013. See also www.jehsmith.com/philosophy. 6 March 2013.
6.Michael Grayshott. ‘The Pig Walked Free.’ Review of the reprint of E.P. Evans. Animal Trials in the London Review of Books, 5 December 2013, p.37.
7.Thomas Aquinas. De regno ad regem Cypri. Book 1, ‘Preliminary Observations.’ http://dhspriory.org/thomas/DeRegno.htm. 28 April 2015.
8.Henry Salt. (1851–1939) Animals Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress. Publ. 1892. Reprint, Society for Animal Rights, Clark’s Summit, Pennsylvania, 1980,p.76.
9.Henry Salt. (1851–1939) Animals Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress, p.46.
10.Henry Salt. (1851–1939) Animals Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress, p.47.
11.Barbara Noske. Humans and other Animals. Beyond the Boundaries of Anthropology. Pluto Press, 1989, pps.6–7. An approach supported by Gary Francione in Animals, Property, and the Law, Temple University Press, 1995.
12.Dinesh Wadiwel. ‘Piketty’s Capital should force a rethink on animals as property.’ The Conversation. 16 July 2015. http://theconversation.com/pikettys-capital-should-force-a-rethink-on-animals-as-property-43473. 16 July 2015.
13.‘Cane Toad.’ www.feral.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/CTFS1.pdf. 13 March 2012.
14.‘Cane Toads in NSW.’ NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. [brochure], 1999.
Chapter 5. Rabbits and Rabbiting
1.Frank Fenner. Myxomatosis. Cambridge University Press, 1965, p.51.
2.‘Noxious Animals.’ Poisoning was also encouraged. Official Yearbook New South Wales, 1904–1905, p.284–285.
3.Frank Fenner. Myxomatosis, p.51.
4.E. Stoddard and I. Parer. Colonisation of Australia by the Rabbit. Project Report No.6, CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, 1988, p.16.
5.David G. Stead. The Rabbit in Australia. Sydney, 1935, p.104.
6.‘Noxious Animals.’ Official Yearbook New South Wales, 1904–1905, pp.284–285.
7.R.M. Williams. Beneath Whose Hand. Sun Macmillan, 1986 edition, p.28.
8.Max Lamshed. ‘Arresting Aspects of Native Life.’ The Advertiser (Adelaide) 5 September 1933, p.8.
9.Nicholas Gill and Kay Anderson. ‘Improvement in the Inland: Culture and Nature in the Australian Rangelands.’ Australian Humanities Review. 34: January-February, 2005. http://ro.uow.edu.au/scipapers/4799/ 19 January 2012.
10.Jenny Quealy. Great Australian Rabbit Stories. Harper Collins, 2010.
11.David G. Stead. The Rabbit in Australia. Sydney, 1935, p.51.
12.‘Big Hare Drive. Army of Shooters.’ Brisbane Courier-Mail. 2 September 1933, p.13.
13.Jillian Wigg. ‘Rabbits, rabbits, everywhere.’ in Jenny Quealy. Great Australian Rabbit Stories, pp.161–162. Eric Rolls also provides vivid descriptions in They all ran wild, Angus & Robertson, 1969, pp.128–131.
14.Mary Kilmartin. ‘With my pack of 60 to 70 Dogs.’ in Jenny Quealy. Great Australian Rabbit Stories, pp.20–21.
15.Liz Hanrahan. ‘The Rabbit Plague. A Happy Memory from Childhood.’ in Jenny Quealy Great Australian Rabbit Stories, pp.169–171.
16.E.S. Chapman. Particeps Criminis. The Story of a California Rabbit Drive. New York, 1910. A 19th century rabbit drive also appears in Frank Norris’s novel The Octopus, 1901.
17.Jackie Drakeford. Rabbit Control. ‘The Art of the Long-Netter.’ Quiller, 2002, pp.88–99.
18.Penny Olsen. Australia’s Pest Animals. Bureau of Resource Services, 1998, p.18.
19.Eric Rolls. They all ran wild, Angus & Robertson, 1969, pp.131–132.
20.‘Ike Gamlen, rabbiter, Nullabor, Eucla.’ www.travelpod.com/travel-photo/adrianlombard/1/1266839111/the-nothingness.jpg/tpod.html 4.1.2011.
21.G. P. Walsh. ‘Copeley, Joseph Herbert (1897–1977),’ Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, p.496.
22.Lassetters, Universal Providers. Catalogue, 1909, p.523.
23.Eric Rolls. They all ran wild, p.13.
24.James L. Schardein and Orest T. Macina. Chap. 40 ‘Carbon Disulfide.’ Human Developmental Toxicants, Aspects of Toxicology and Chemistry. Informa Healthcare 2006, pp.233–236.
25.C.A. Marks. ‘Fumigation of rabbit warrens with chloropicrin produces poor welfare outcomes, a review.’ Wildlife Research 36(4) 342–352, 2009. www.publish.csiro.au/paper/WR06128.htm. 27 July 2012.
26.Kent Williams, et al. Managing Vertebrate Pests: Rabbits. CSIRO, Australian Government Printing Service, Canberra, 1995, p.94.
27.Brian Coman. Tooth and Nail: the Story of the Rabbit in Australia, pp.57–58
28.Jackie Drakeford, ‘Stinking out’ in Rabbit Control, Quiller, 2002, p.120.
29.J.C. Mcilroy. ‘The Sensitivity of Australian Animals to 1080 Poison .9. Comparisons Between the Major Groups of Animals, and the Potential Danger Nontarget Species Face From 1080 Poisoning Campaigns.’ Australian Wildlife Research 13(1) pp.39–48. www.publish.csiro.au/nid/144/paper/WR9860039.htm. 28 April 2015.
30.Gloria Jarick.’ Even worse than shearers.’ in Jenny Quealy, Great Australian Rabbit Stories, pp.52–53
31.warrenfahey.com/articles/weed.html. 3 Jan 2011.
32.G. P. Walsh. ‘Copeley, Joseph Herbert (1897–1977),’ Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, p. 496.
33.Gordon Moyes. ‘Rabbito Bill.’ www.gordonmoyes.com/2006/02/10/rabbito-bill/ 12 May 2011. Steele Rudd’s ‘Cranky Jack’ character in the Dad and Dave stories seems to have the same tailor as Moyes’ ‘Rabbito Bill.’
34.‘Indoor agriculture.’ Launceston Examiner, 10 September 1906, p.5.
35.‘Murder of woodcutter.’The Argus, 13 August 1913, p.13. See also ‘Lilydale Murder.’ The Argus, 21 August 1913, p.14.
36.‘Rabbit Shooters Death. Companion Charged with Murder.’ The West Australian, 30 April 1932, p.19.
37.‘Car check for Greek’s killer.’ The Argus, 6 August 1953, p.7.
Chapter 6. The Rabbit Business
1.Brian Coman. Tooth and Nail: The Story of the Rabbit in Australia, Text Publishing Company, 2010 edition, pp.103–104.
2.‘The Mount Gambier Rabbit Factory.’ The Advertiser, Adelaide, 4 July 1898, p.6.
3.Brian Coman. Tooth and Nail: The Story of the Rabbit in Australia, p.103.
4.‘New Fixed Prices for Rabbits.’ The Argus, Melbourne, 15 May 1944, p.4.
5.G.B. Eggleton. Last of the Lantern Swingers. Parraweena Publishing, Mildura, 1982.
6.‘Rabbit trader who loved orchids.’ Gerald McCraith obituary. The Age, 9 July 2009. See also Catherine Watson. The Rabbit King: The Story of Jack McCraith and the Rabbit Industry. Boniyong Pastoral Company, 1996.
7.Frank McCarthy. ‘Trappers Tricks.’ In Jenny Quealy, ed. Great Australian Rabbit Stories, ABC Books, pp.53–54.
8.Obituary. Gerald Mack McCraith. The Age. 9 July 2009. www.theage.com.au/national/obituaries/rabbit-trader-who-loved-orchids-20090708-ddfg.html. 21 May 2012.
9.The Smorgon family built a processing plant at Brooklyn, Victoria to export rabbit meat and tinned fruit. Rod Myer. ‘Smorgon, Norman (1884–1956)’. Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, (MUP), 2002. 21 May 2012.
10.Obituary. Gerald Mack McCraith. The Age. 9 July 2009. www.theage.com.au/national/obituaries/rabbit-trader-who-loved-orchids-20090708-ddfg.html. 21 May 2012.
11.Scandrett also exported wombat, fox, Opossum and wallaby skins. In 1916–1917, they exported 12 million pairs of frozen rabbits. Prospectus, L.A. Scandrett, 4 Bridge Street, Sydney, 1917.
12.G.B. Eggleton. Last of the Lantern Swingers, Paraweena Publishing Co., 1982.
13.Cathie Macarthur. ‘Rabbit Business.’ in Jenny Quealy, ed. Great Australian Rabbit Stories, ABC Books, 2010, pp.33–34.
14.Catherine Watson. The Rabbit King: The Story of Jack McCraith and the Rabbit Industry. Boniyong Pastoral Company, 1996, pp.74–75.
15.Claire Miller. ‘Challenge starts contest of rabbit skinners.’ The Age, 27 December 1986, p.3.
16.Sam Bungey. ‘Keen-eyed hunter.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 10–11 July 2010, p.10. See also Patrick A. Ahern for detailed skinning technique. ‘Rabbit a la Francaise.’ In Jenny Quealy. Great Australian Rabbit Stories, ABC Books, pp.263–266.
17.Michael McKernan. ‘The Soldier Settler’ in The Valley. Allen and Unwin, 2009, pp.195–196.
18.M. Foster and R. Telford. Structure of the Australian Rabbit Industry: A Preliminary Analysis, ABARE report prepared for the Livestock and Pastoral Division, Department of Primary Industries and Energy, Canberra, 1996, p.18.
19.James Woodford. ‘Bang goes the bunny business.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October 1995, p.1.
20.‘Adhesives Then and Now.’ Australian Woodworker, May/June 1995.
Chapter 7. Germ Warfare and the Death of the Rabbit Industry
1.‘Extermination of Rabbits.’ Department of Mines, Sydney, 31 August 1887. In Town and Country Journal, 10 September 1887.
2.‘New South Wales [News].’ South Australian Register, 21 September 1887, p.6.
3.‘Destroying Rabbits by Inoculation.’ South Australian Advertiser, 22 March 1887, p.6. This burrowing mite can also infect dogs and human with a skin disorder commonly known as ‘mange.’
4.Brian Coman. Tooth and Nail: The story of the rabbit in Australia Text Publishing Company, 2010 edition, p.68.
5.Frank Fenner. Myxomatosis. Cambridge University Press, 1965, p.5.
6.Frank Fenner. Myxomatosis, p.6.
7.Frank Fenner. Myxomatosis, p.209.
8.Frank Fenner. Myxomatosis, p.281.
9.Frank Fenner. Myxomatosis, p.288.
10.Kent Williams, et al. Managing Vertebrate Pests: Rabbits. CSIRO, Australian Government Printing Service, Canberra, 1995, p.45.
11.Rabbit Calicivirus Disease (RCD), CSIRO. Factsheet. n.d. www.csiro.au/files/files/plep.pdf. 25 January 2012.
12.Kent Williams, et al. Managing Vertebrate Pests: Rabbits. CSIRO, Australian Government Printing Service, Canberra, 1995, p.45.
13.James Woodford. ‘Bang goes the bunny business.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October 1995, p.1.
14.M. Foster and R. Telford. Structure of the Australian Rabbit Industry: A Preliminary Analysis, ABARE report prepared for the Livestock and Pastoral Division, Department of Primary Industries and Energy, Canberra, 1996, pp.13–15.
15.M. Foster and R. Telford. Structure of the Australian Rabbit Industry, pp.13–15.
16.Julie Bird. New and Emerging Industries. National Research, Development and Extension Strategy. Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, 2010, p.6.
Chapter 8. Wild Dogs and Dogging
1.Mitch Reardon. ‘Dingo.’ Australian Geographic, July/September 1992, p.90.
2.Ned Wilson. A Dogger’s Life. Aussie Outback Publishing, 2001, pp.36–37.
3.Interview with Peter Thomson in Mitch Reardon. ‘Dingo.’ Australian Geographic, July/September 1992, p.96.
4.Richard Waterhouse. The Vision Splendid. A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia, Freemantle Arts Centre Press, 2005, p.206.
5.Herb Wharton. Unbranded. University of Queensland Press, 1992, pp.57–58.
6.Brad Purcell. Dingo, CSIRO, 2010, pp.49–50.
7.Herb Wharton. Unbranded, p.57.
8.Brad Purcell. Dingo, CSIRO, 2010, p.89.
9.‘Wild dogs in Australia.’ K. Lapidge, M. Braysher and S. Sarre (2004-present). www.feral.org.au. 10 May 2012.
10.Government set to announce ‘dogger’ allocations. September 14, 2010. www.abc.net.au/news/2010–09–14/government-set-to-announce-dogger-allocations/2260068. 24 May 2012.
11.R.M. Williams. Beneath Whose Hand. Sun Macmillan, 1986 edition, p.37.
12.R.M. Williams. Beneath Whose Hand, p.41, p. 44.
13.R. Ross. www.lasseteria.com/CYCLOPEDIA/76.htm. 12 December 2011.
14.Brad Purcell. Dingo, pp.10–12.
15.Ernestine Hill. The Great Australian Loneliness, Angus and Robertson, 1940, pp.297–299.
16.R.G. Kimber. Walter Smith. Australian Bushman. Artlunga Hotel and Bush Resort and Hesperian Press, 2nd edition, 1996. p.49.
17.Tom Gara. ‘Doggers in the North West.’ (SA), www.researchgate.net/publication/268028332_DOGGERS_IN_THE_NORTH-WEST (2005). 10 May 2012.
18.Tom Gara. ‘Doggers in the North West.’ 10 May 2012.
19.R.G. Kimber. Walter Smith. Australian Bushman. 2nd edition, 1996. p.49.
20.Diana Young. ‘Dingo scalping and the frontier economy in the north-west of South Australia.’ in Frontier Economies, edited by Ian Keen, ANU ePress, 2010, p.92.
21.Ernestine Hill. The Great Australian loneliness, pp.297–299.
22.M.J. Meggitt (1924–2004) was a celebrated scholar exploring Aboriginal society in central Australia. Eric Rolls. They all ran wild, Angus & Robertson, 1969, p.384.
23.Diana Young. ‘Dingo scalping and the Frontier economy in the north west of South Australia’ in Frontier economies, Ian Keen, editor, ANU ePress, 2010.
24.R.M. Williams. Beneath Whose Hand. Sun Macmillan, 1986 edition, p.65. Dr Charles Duguid (1884–1986) was the president of the Aborigines Protection League after 1935. Duguid travelled with R. M. Williams to Ernabella, the centre of the dogging industry amongst Europeans and Aborigines. He founded a mission there in 1937. W. H. Edwards. ‘Duguid, Charles.’(1884–1986)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, (MUP), 2007.
25.Tom Gara. ‘Doggers in the North-West.’ 10 May 2012.
26.Diana Young. ‘Dingo Scalping and the frontier economy in the north-west of South Australia’ in Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies, pps.91–108. 12 January 2013.
27.Tom Gara. ‘Doggers in the North-West.’ 10 May 2012.
28.‘Dingo Menace.’ Canberra Times, 22 July 1927.
29.‘Payment for Wild Dog Scalps.’ The Advertiser, Adelaide, 3 November 1916, p.8.
30.Dinah Percival and Candida Westney. Yarns from the Dingo Fence. Hutchinson Australia, 1989, p.xiv.
31.‘Government set to announce ‘dogger’ allocations.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2010-09-14/government-set-to-announce-dogger-allocations/2260068. 14 September 2010.
32.Kelly Ryan. ‘Bounty has foxes on the run.’ Melbourne Herald Sun, 16 July 2012, p.14.
33.‘Offensive launched against wild dogs.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 23 October 2014, p.13.
34.The active ingredient in 1080 is sodium fluoroacetate, found occurring naturally in plants, particularly in Western Australia where it is known as ‘poison pea’.
35.Strychnine is lethal to humans and poisoning can occur through sniffing the dust, rubbing the eyes with contaminated hands as well as taken orally.
36.‘Dingo Trapping.’ Perth Western Mail, 24 March 1916, page 6.
37.Ian Parkes. A Youth Not Wasted. Fourth Estate, 2012, p.163.
38.R.G. Kimber. Walter Smith. Australian Bushman, p.48.
39.‘Cycling.’ Launceston Examiner, 23 November 1909, p.2–3.
40.Lily Long. Tiwa. 2008. Martumili Artists. australianmuseum.net.au/ image/Yiwarra-Kuju-The-Canning-Stock-Route-1, 12 February 2012.
41.Ned Wilson. A Dogger’s Life, Aussie Outback Publishing, 2001, pps.51–55.
42.Edwin Waller.’Trapping Wild Dogs.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 17 January 1925, p.13.
43.‘Arthur.’ ‘A Dogger sets the trap record straight.’ Australasian Post, 20 February 1986. theaustraliantrapper.netfirms.com/ articles.html. 7 February 2011.
44.Edwin Waller.’Trapping Wild Dogs.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 17 January 1925, p.13.
45.Edwin Waller. ‘Trapping Wild Dogs’, p.13.
46.Sam Bungey. ‘Keen-eyed hunter.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 10–11 July 2010, p.10.
47.‘Unwanted Victims.’ Brisbane Sunday Mail, 3 September 1933, p.6.
48.James Woodford. The Dog Fence, Text Publishing, 2003, pp.70–71.
49.Ian Parkes’s memoir, A Youth Not Wasted, describes ‘Clarrie’, a West Australian dogger as ‘dogger by occupation and dogged by nature.’
50.Tom Gara. ‘Doggers in the North-West.’ 10 May 2012.
51.R.G. Kimber. Walter Smith. Australian Bushman, pp.108–109.
52.‘Fatal Gun Accident.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 4 February 1908, p.10.
Chapter 9. Rabbiters, Doggers and Solitude
1.Ernestine Hill. The Great Australian loneliness, Robertson & Mullens, London, 1943, pp.336–338.
2.‘The Rabbiter.’ in Rosemary Dobson. Cock Crow, Angus & Robertson, 1965.
3.Thomas Merton. The Silent Life. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1957, p.166.
4.Marcus Clarke. ‘Australian Scenery’ in Australian Tales, 1896. www.telelib.com/authors/C/ClarkeMarcus/prose/AustalianTales/australianscenery.html. 12 July 2015.
5.William Howitt. ‘A crazed shepherd.’ [excerpt] in E. Webby, editor. Colonial Voices, University of Queensland Press, 1989, pp.249–254.
6.Dinah Percival and Candida Westney. Yarns from the Dingo Fence. Hutchinson Australia, 1989, p.89.
7.Ned Wilson. A Dogger’s Life. Aussie Outback Publishing, 2001, p.54.
8.Eric Rolls. They all ran wild, Angus and Robertson, 1969, p.386.
9.‘Emerson on Solitude.’ www.hermitary.com/solitude/emerson.html. 16 May 2015.
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