A
campaign to educate school children about the dingo problem has back fired.
Recently
the Agriculture Protection Board held a competition asking children from
metropolitan schools to create posters out lining the problem.
"But
the response we got was overwhelmingly in support of the dingo, “said the
board's extensions officer Mr Von Chantler.
We
thought we got the message across to the children that dingo control is necessary.
But the poster response shows us that a lot more work is needed."
The
winning poster was created by Nina Alitalo (12) of Coolbinia Primary.
Nina
painted a farmer standing over a dingo. He was brandishing an axe dripping with
blood.
The accompanying
slogan read-"Dingoes aren't always to blame. THINK! your dog may have
killed the game."
Other posters which gained consolation or class prizes
said "Stop dingoes being exterminated" and "Dingoes - friend foe?
Ask a Sheep.
The West Australian of the same date also
printed the story under the headline DINGOES FIND CHAMPIONS adding: The dingo –
long branded a sheep killer - has found champions in many of the
schoolchildren who took part in an Agriculture Protection Board poster competition.
Some of the 900 entrants from 35 Perth metropolitan
area primary schools submitted posters sympathetic to what one student called a unique Australian.
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