Two roo hunters, hundreds of kilometres of red dirt country, and a grateful community. This is an outback operation with a difference - via NITV.
He's driving a four to five-hour round trip to the outskirts of COVID-stricken Wilcannia, in the red dirt outback of NSW.
Warlpa Thompson, Chair of Mutawintji Board of Management, is one of two accredited shooters in the park.Warlpa Thompson shares the shooting duties with Leroy Johnson.Mr Thompson, a Wiimpatja Marli man, is the chairman of the Mutawintji Board of Management."It's a park where it's under Aboriginal ownership and part of the lease agreement that we have with the state government allows us to hunt on our traditional lands," Mr Thompson says.
"As soon as I heard there was a case, that's when I sat down with Leroy and Warlpa and I said 'listen we're going to do something'," says Derek Hardman, the chief executive of Barkindji Native Title."But let's do what we can, let’s utilise the strengths and the resources we can obtain and what we’ve got access to.
Leroy Johnson, Mutawintji National Park Manager, delivers about 150kg of fresh kangaroo meat to Wilcanna every few days.The group has already delivered more than 700 kilograms of fresh meat to Wilcannia and Broken Hill."What I love the most is hearing the same day, 'oh we just made some kangaroo curry', 'we had some kangaroo rissoles'."I was only sitting in town doing nothing, so I thought I'd come out," he says.
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