Why are Australian authors obsessed with killing off kangaroos?
- Written by Donna Mazza, Senior Lecturer in Creative Arts, Edith Cowan University
George Stubbs, 'The Kongouro from New Holland' (1772), oil painting, detail of head. Ashley Van Haeften/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY
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Kangaroos are the most visible of Australia’s unique animals, but despite their charm and national icon status, Australian writers perpetually kill them off.
A kangaroo appears struggling in a rabbit trap, doomed and...
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