Tuesday, 5 May 2026

 Tim BULL (Gippsland East) (14:03): I also want to relay a voice message I received from a local farmer in the far east just last week:

Hi, Tim. I just want to let you know we’re being visited by massive numbers of wild dogs. It’s becoming very frightening. At times I’ve warned people to get inside or get into a vehicle if they turn up. The numbers are just unbelievable. It’s bloody dangerous, and I don’t know if I can work out there or send anyone else out there to work. As I said to one person, you’d need a semiautomatic to have a hope. Having one dog trap is not enough. They’re coming out of the national park. The numbers are just incredible, like nothing I’ve ever seen before. I don’t want to be accused of doing nothing when someone else is attacked. We need more resources applied to that program.