In Australia we have three levels of government, federal, state and local. What is not realised is that these levels of government are then divided up again into the politicians and the bureaucrats. The politician’s job is to get re-elected so that his party stays in power whereas the bureaucrats are the people that make the laws which they get the politicians to pass in parliament.

The dingo’s problem with the government is that there are strong powerful farming lobbies which badger the politicians into thinking that the dingo must go, as it’s a serious economic pest. Then you have the bureaucracy which has been invaded by the man on the land drafting laws to eradicate the dingo.

The federal government does provide protection for the dingo is only in national parks but even this doesn’t guarantee the dingo’s survival, recently a national park with significant endangered fauna like the Tiger quolls (Dasyurus maculatus) was aerial baited with 1080 poison for wild dogs. This was brought about by pressure of the neighbouring farming community complaining about stock loss.

When asked, the government could not give statistics on how many dingoes live in that area; could they have killed the last of the dingoes in that area? Nobody will ever know as this is one of the ways the government handles problems is to do as little as possible with the scientific facts and hope the problem goes away, in the dingo’s case it means its extinction.

The governments of Australia have learned nothing from the past, for instance look at Tasmania and the thylacine. At this present time Tasmania is ripping its guts out by logging old growth forests and sending the wood chips to Asia to make paper, we can concede that the government must be able to bring money in to the community and the only thing left is the forest but if Tasmania still had the thylacine roaming the hills its economy would be bolstered with the influx of tourists seeking out the world largest carnivore marsupial but their short sightedness allowed the Thylacinus cynocephalus (Tasmanian Tiger) to become extinct.

So what you might ask, well the same thing is happening in our present time to one of our largest isolated populations of pure dingoes, so do they protect them? No, because this state government wants the tourist dollar and considers the dingo as pest to be eradicated, so the dingoes are relocated, this means their shot and relocated to under the ground.