From The Saturday Paper, 4 April 2026:
Vinny O’Loughlin goes out rabbit shooting at night, but he could just as easily do it during the day from his front door in the small South Australian town of Willalooka. “We’ve got half-a-dozen rabbits in our front yard in the morning when we get out of bed,” he says.
At night “you can come up over a rise and it is nothing to see 100 rabbits within the next 50 metres”.
In Melbourne’s outer municipality of Casey, a local school had to relocate their athletics carnival because the oval was riddled with rabbit warrens, and the market gardeners of Cranbourne are in despair seeing crop after crop of seedlings obliterated. “I was elected in November 2024 and [the rabbit problem] was the No. 1 issue that people spoke to me about before the election,” says Casey councillor and deputy mayor Michelle Crowther. Read more (paywall).
Bianca Nogrady 