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Australia's Rabbit Plague

Australia's Rabbit Plague

FromWitness History


Australia's Rabbit Plague

FromWitness History

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Length:
10 minutes
Released:
Sep 20, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

For decades, Australia's countryside was ravaged by billions of rabbits. So in the 1950s, the government released the disease myxomatosis to kill off the rabbit plague. We hear from farmer, Bill McDonald, who remembers Australia's battle against the bunnies. (This programme is a re-broadcast).(Photo: Rabbits around a waterhole at the myxomatosis trial enclosure on Wardang Island in 1938. Credit: National Archives of Australia)
Released:
Sep 20, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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