Been out there, seen it all and it STILL amazes me that animals can be farmed on such barren, hot, dry land. Its incredible.

We need longer documentaries like these

Oh thank you so very deeply for covering this amazing story. I was a city kid that turned up on Mullyungarie when Buddy Napier gave me a start back in the early ‘80’s and spend a few of my happiest ever years working there with my best mate Lloyd Russel, gday Pink lol, and oh the memories you’ve brought back. Stringing that same fence by hand, driving in the posts by hand oh yeah and roasting in that sun, especially when repainting the Mullyungarie sign on the roof in 40+ degree heat, yeah, thanks for that boss, lol, oh how I hope you are all well and so successful. Thank you for the best experiences of my young life at the time, helped make me the man that I now am, thank you and thank you auntie for filming this to make a very weary old man feel young and alive again

I did work as part of a 2 man team for a month mid 60's) with an aged bloke (back then) as he had an injury and needed a hand while I was on annual leave from the then SA Railways. Quite an adventure and memories while in my retired life.

My mate is a shooter working between Geralton and Meekatharra in WA and he tells me there are not many native dingos but heaps of ferrals

Why do they remove the old fence? Just leave it there, it might not be perfect but it helps.

I love outback

I have a pure breed dingo 1/2 desert dingo, 1/2 alpine dingo and she is a sweet heart, highly intelligent.

Awesome! As a young bloke (probably still now) I always wanted to "run the fence" as I called it. Travel from one end to the other. in Later years I thought working on it would be cool (but tough) but of course now nearing retirement, who knows??

Great job

I was in a cattle station somewhere in the Outback of Qld, in Bangor for 10months and i learned to love the cattle stn life. Learned fixing the fences and i have a commendation from the owner that i was doing a micked job in fixing the fences. But as a Tourist, i worked there without compensation for 10months but i loved it. I came home becoz my visa expired😪

Stations that have dog fence in South Australia that I have worked on are, Mount Lyndhurst, Mount Freeling, Witchelina, and Murnpeowie stations.

Love the outback 👍 very quiet fantastic landscape 👌👍

Isnt it called the dingo fence?

We did bury the fence 2'6" under the ground to stop the dogs burrowing under...didn't notice this new fence line doing the same.

If u cull the dingoes, will that affect the breeding up of roos?

Northern Point of the rabbit proof fence is at cape keraudren pardoo w.a 6721

very good

Would love this job i would even walk it no problem camp out wire and snipers

Great Video Demonstrating Needs for Australian’s that Need Fixing

Why don't they just leave both fences in place? Double protection.

Any reason these sheep/ cattle ranchers don’t use Great Pyrenees dogs to keep out the wild dogs? Here in the states we use Pyrenees to keep away coyotes.

I’m sure it’s great working on construction of a beneficial fence, that most Aussies don’t even know about. The speed at which the fence is going up is amazing, & I can’t believe how desert like it is out there, & wonder how sheep & cattle even exist. I’m assuming it’s a benefit to keeping wild pigs at bay too. Cheers 🍻

OMG I had no idea that the ABC did balanced journalism. Maybe it's just the ones away from the madness of cities.

Interesting

Stunning fence. I would like one around my property.

Dingo's originally from southern China were brought to Australia by man and so they are NOT native to Australia. The Canis familiaris dingo are wild dogs that eats native Australian animals and live stock.

It's the last remaining piece of the great EMU war .., those damn emu's

Gonna need a bigger fence fellas 🐶

Kylie cairns Is an idealist not a pastoralist. She is living in a dream world. If she was running a property she would either go broke or change her tune.

Why not leave both fences up?

Remember the Tasmanian Tigers?

i had a Dog tested by Kylie as part of this study. N.E Vic

There is a movie about this quite good called rabbit proof fence look it up

I hope they can buy the wire and post from Australian manufactures.

Just hope someone does something about the dog fence in the piliga nsw

I would have kept the original fence. Historical significance and double protection. Not like they needed the space. I would have also assumed that if taking down the old fence was absolutely necessary, parts of it would be placed in a museum. No sentimentality.

I've watched a fox climb a 8 ft "T" fence to get into a large chicken pen. You really think it's going to work?

👍

Just wait until the deer to turn up, the dingos will have more food than they’ll know what to with it

Good reporting. Now that the evidence is in (DNA etc). They are Dingo's (basically wolves) not dogs. Please stop participating in the propaganda and call it a Dingo fence and not a Dog fence. Whilst I feel for the farmers I'm pretty sure farmers felt the same way about the Tasmanian Tiger.

Don’t the dogs just burrow under the fence?

Got nothing on the tooth brush fence.

Farmers need to receive those big subsidies to break even.

Dogs arrived hear from Asia , so dogs ( dingoes) are not native to Australia! Am I missing something ?

Brasil

Dingos are introduced, a long time ago. But still introduced.

Funny how forgiving people are when it is someone else who is losing money.

If Dr mosbey's lively hood was being eaten by these animals , im sure she would be singing a different tune

Compulsory blanket baiting is not a good idea and goes against standard integrated pest control. Free feeding, and monitoring should be undertaken to determine whether baiting should be conducted and to what extent. This helps prevent non target species being impacted and ensures effective baiting programs.

Dingoes also control CATZ and foxes...😰

I sure it's called a / the DINGO FENCE

Why would I find myself doubting the knowledge of the city bound clinical laboratory loyal scientist but believing the example of the outback on location experience suffering grazier ?

It all cool and science until you get chased down by a pack. It get real very fast.

Loader,not a dozer

Unbelievable..

why not use guard dogs like Kangals like they are used in other places.

mountaindogs,pyrenese,akba karabash and more are the solution

These sheep farmers need the maremma dogs that guard livestock.

Ironically the ‘protected side’ is full of Foxes and cats, the dingo side has a healthy population of native mammals and minimum feral animals. They’re most likely native Dingoes, calling them ‘dogs’ is a way to desensitise people about the mass slaughter of an important apex predator.

Need to regenerate the landscape with reforestation projects as well or nothing else will change

We need more words like Jackeroo.

Dingo's are NOT native to Australia

Dog fence? I thought it was a Rabbit fence.

What other animals does that keep out besides dogs. Prob a real shit eco system south of the fence

Can't imagine how much disruption the fence causes for native flora and fauna. Wherever agriculture goes, ecological destruction follows.

The sheep farmers opinion is valid when he states the number of sheep he has lost. It must be heart breaking for him to find a dozen or more of his stock laying on the ground still alive and each one has their stomach ripped open and the liver torn out whilst the poor animal dies a lingering death. Allowing Dingos to control Roo populations is a good idea but when the Roos number hundreds or more in an area the dog is only chipping away at the surface. If the National Party, who represent these farmers, made the Liberal government put a lot more funding into this problem instead of criminalising charities for criticising goverment policy or any other ideological percieved threat which they deemed unacceptable. If only Dingos would only target cats.

At least the dogs don't eat everything that grows,sheep eat everything green, that's how you got the desert

Politely ask the dingo to stop eating sheep!

Rabbits?

Apparently when the dingo family structure collapses they are more likely to go for livestock.

Are dingos like wolves and unsuitable for domestication?

So the fance is not Australian made. Not surprise, lot of manufacturing jobs lost overseas again. ?Politicians need to cut out their tax payed dinner and maybe could have had Australian made product.

Why don't farmers fence there properties? Take ownership

Three build three not two, think about it guys come on, its not that hot out back is it.

I thought this fence was to keep the locals out of our corn fields

Hate to say it but Sheep weren't meant to be out there!

dont let the eco warriors get wind of this.

The middle ground needs to be found. They're more important to the ecosystem than sheep, though I understand the horrible nuisance that it causes

Dingo or not if it's a pest it's a pest

If not a dog will be another animals comming

Sheep shouldn't be there. Let the dogs eat!!!

If these are dingos we are talking about well they were there before the farmers. The answer is that the farmers should farm other livestock like buffalo instead of rearing an invasive species.

danngg

All good for that researcher to say don’t kill the dog’s from her well paid research job, try running a business in a drought and feeding a family

breed more sheep dogs to protect the sheep

Get some Kangals.

Just sell hunting trips to Americans! seriously people will pay to hunt coyotes in Australia.

Don't need it anymore

One company owns more land than 30% of the worlds population 😇😇

nothing wrong with dingos just the average aussie has got lazy

right... livestock... we all know why.

Take the fence down and get your self a large dog to protect the flock

I support legal dingo immigration. BUILD THIS WALL!!!

Yeah right where do I start with the problems I have with this? They are excluding the larger native wildlife in order to keep a domesticated imported species for profit. Dingo's are an imported predator but have been there longer than the sheep and as sheep have no natural predators ( imported species ) they themselves have devastated vast areas putting native animals at risk. Would foreign charities such as the Parrot Society UK be putting so much money into the preservation off species such as the Black Cockatoos and the Major Mitchells Cockatoo if sheep weren't valued above the needs of the native fauna? I realise that everyone needs to eat and earn a living but it seems to me that profit is winning against the natural environment. PS, I have to wonder why you would target Dingo's rather then utilise them to control the rodent problem you currently have in Australia? Dingo's are a major predator for both mice and rabbits .

Unfortunately you’re talking to farmers who have spent generations obliterating native wildlife for an industry that makes almost no money.

It doesn't make any sense whatsoever in tearing the old fence down. It would make a great trap for the dingoes.

This kylie has no clue

Dingoes are awesome, shame they are farming sheep out there

Colonial australian being Colonial Australia. horrible project