A southern WA shire is seeking the power to prosecute property owners who let their cattle stray on to roads.
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Vehicles collide with straying stock fairly frequently on Australian country roads, sometimes with fatal results.
If successfull, this would allow Kononup Shire to police straying stock on its own roads, but not those owned by the Main Roads Department.
The Great Southern Weekender Thursday, November 12, 2015.
Caterina Macri, who spoke no English, was pregnant and newly arrived on a boat from Europe when she started camping in the Australian bush with her husband and two young sons.
Her daughter Lena Elliott is getting ready to tell her story in a book “Bread on the Table”.
This is the first of several history pieces I will post about people starting new farming ventures in the Great Southern region where I now work.
The Great Southern Weekender, August 13, 2015