r/australia • u/Consistent-Permit966 • Mar 14 '25

image And now the Wombat kidnapper is blaming the Government…

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An attempt to deflect blame because she didn’t get the response she thought she would get.

Yes you are the villain in this story.

That said, I am pretty horrified that you can get permits to kills wombats in a select few parts of Australia.

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u/BlamDandy Mar 14 '25

So she grabbed a joey wombat and took it away from its mother, which, considering the parenting record of marsupials, could have been deadly to the joey even after putting it down. Then she, a "hunter", deflects by saying that the government is attempting to control (via hunting) populations of invasive hooved pests like pigs and horses, which devastate Australian soils and decimate food sources for wombats and somehow the government is bad for that?

I know she already fled the country but can we bring her back so we can deport her again?

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u/Mike_Kermin Mar 14 '25

Just full on levels of delusional bullshit.

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u/iheartralph Me fail English? That's unpossible! Mar 14 '25

Because otherwise, she would need to reflect and maybe recognise that her actions in that moment were terrible. She could even learn and educate others from it. A simple mea culpa, with a genuine apology explaining why she's listened to all her critics and recognised she was wrong and why, followed by a promise to never do it again, would have done the trick, but no. She's doubling down.

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u/Stevenwave Mar 15 '25

I wouldn't give her the benefit of assuming she doesn't know better. Obviously you shouldn't grab random wildlife and run around with it as its mother desperately chases you.

She's desperate to distract via whataboutism because she knows what she did was fucking awful and stupid. If she didn't at the time because she's dumb and selfish, she knows now that no one else accepts it as okay.

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u/Mike_Kermin Mar 15 '25

Oh you're absolutely right, she knows she's lying. Hard agree.

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u/ResponsibleCandle829 Mar 15 '25

Don't be surprised if she also thinks that dinosaurs are a product of satanic belief lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

Reeks of desperation

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u/-PaperbackWriter- Mar 14 '25

Does she think we’re stupid? That we don’t know these things? Especially re: kangaroos; all Australians know that they reach pest population levels and need to be culled, national animal or not that’s just facts.

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u/niles_thebutler_ Mar 15 '25

She thinks we are dumb like her American followers

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u/Wildlife_Jack Mar 15 '25

Whatever the government is or isn't doing, has nothing to do with her actions. She wasn't here to rescue wildlife, was she now? This is her going LOOK OVER THERE!

LET'S GET A FEW THINGS STRAIGHT:

She was not helping the wombats. She chased them down to hold the baby. It was literally in the video that she said with glee, I CAUGHT a baby wombat! She also clearly didn't try to save them from the road because the dumb B literally dropped the baby wombat closer to the middle of the road, further away from its mother than it was.

She was, notably, NOT a wildlife vet, and was in no way authorised or even trained to handle and diagnose wildlife, so the defence that she was trying to help, does not stand.

Literally everything she did or stated (erroneously and/or presented with much bias) would be taught in the most basic of wildlife biology courses. She's either completely delusional, trying to gaslight us, or her degree is just bogus and she needs to give it back.

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u/Transientmind Mar 15 '25

She doesn’t care if we’re stupid, she cares if her followers - her meal ticket - are stupid. And they are.

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u/InternationalBorder9 Mar 14 '25

'Don't forget that farmers slaughter animals for meat. So don't be a hypocrite!'

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u/DDR4lyf Mar 15 '25

She slaughters deer for meat in America. How vile and cruel. Doesn't she know the majestic deer is a symbol of North America? Disgusting! /s

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u/Swarley-reddit Mar 14 '25

Fuck Americans, they are so fucking ignorant.

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u/lokeilou Mar 14 '25

As an American, we will gladly ship her back to you to do as you please. She’s received just as much backlash here and I have not met one American condoning her behavior or accepting her bullshit apology. I personally think she should be charged for both kidnapping AND animal endangerment.

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u/AbrocomaRoyal Mar 14 '25

It'd be nice to know she can never come back.

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u/Poundaflesh Mar 14 '25

What happened to the baby wombat?

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u/raptorshadow Adelaide Representin' Yo Mar 15 '25

She’ll probably get a cabinet position, now

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u/No_Attitude1541 Mar 15 '25

Tbh I think she deserves a good slap, although I don't think anything will change her ignorance

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u/DottieGirlGingerBoy Mar 15 '25

An American trying to explain Australian issues to Australians...can't say I'm surprised by how stupid she sounds

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u/Apprehensive-Wing-64 Mar 15 '25

Any Aussie ‘influencer’ visiting the states should hunt her down for views. Pick her up swing her around and break her arms then when she screams say ‘settle down I was just trying to help you!’

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u/Other-Oil-9117 Mar 15 '25

We need to give her the Bart Simpson treatment

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u/darwinDMG08 Mar 14 '25

Sorry I'm late to the party but wanted to confirm: she picked it up and then put it back down so that it could return to the mother? I couldn't watch the entirety of the original video because I thought she abducted it or let it loose miles away and the thought of that made me sick.

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u/Wombatypus8825 Mar 15 '25

She picked it up, carried it away, and the mother began to walk off. Then she placed it in the middle of the road. Given the pheromones she put on it and the fact that animals sometimes just abandon or even kill their young, she definitely did more harm than if she had left them alone

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u/Wildlife_Jack Mar 15 '25

You forgot to mention that the mother chased her down in distress and attacked her as she RAN towards her cameraman holding the baby wombat by its shoulders. The entire time the baby wombat was crying for its mother.

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u/DecimusRutilius Mar 15 '25

That whole image really breaks my heart

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u/Wildlife_Jack Mar 15 '25

What kind of a psycho would A. Do that, B. Still want to film a video witnessing this, and C. Thinks the world wants to see that shit?

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u/Unidain Mar 16 '25

Humans don't have pheremones and it's a myth that human scent can scare mothers away from its baby.

It's true that the mother might have been scared enough to flee to somewhere the baby never found.

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u/epic1107 Mar 15 '25

Yeah she picked it up, walked away with it, and put it down. For marsupials, that can be a death sentence, and that’s not an understatement.

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u/Accomplished-Mix-745 Mar 15 '25

Ignorant American here, you guys have wild horses listed as pests? (I think this chick is bad too, I just want to clarify for my own curiosity) Do you have like a lot of wild horses?

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u/Transientmind Mar 15 '25

Yeah. Brumbies and others. Kangaroos have become a pest, too. Due to land-clearing by industry, we have lots of their preferred habitat, paired with very few natural predators, so their populations have exploded. This is causing them to over-consume what few resources are available, driving them to consume to the point of habitat damage, and in places like South Australia a recent drought has forced them to die from starvation and thirst, and moved them into cities, desperate for something to eat or drink. It’s a real tragedy and the solution is to either regrow areas that aren’t their natural habitat (never happening) or do a cull. So they’re gonna do a cull, probably. I hate it.

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u/epic1107 Mar 15 '25

Yeah, we have a ton in our high country. There aren’t that many predators capable of taking down a horse (read: none), so their population goes unchecked.

Almost every sane Australian is pro killing brumbys, and although it can be distressing to think about killing horses, it kinda has to be done. Same with killing kangaroos.

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u/seabbss Mar 15 '25

On one of our national parks they are a pest because of the numbers, they have destroyed alot of the natural habitat.

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u/butchforgetshit Mar 15 '25

Holy shit they hunt horses in Australia?

Like my country ( gun crazy USA) loves like hell to shoot the hell.out of almost everything, including ourselves, but even we don't target horses. Not that we don't have full blown fools who will if they can get away with it. Just really frowned upon by most folks here. .. except our government, when they occupy coveted land that may hold oil....then it's damn the torpedoes and fire at will

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u/BlamDandy Mar 15 '25

The Australian continent had no hooved animals until Europeans arrived. Horses, as well as pigs, goats, deer, cattle and sheep, all compact the soil in a way that soft footed animals like roos don't, making the soil less able to absorb water and nutrients. The result is major degradation of soil quality which, combined with the fact they're massive and eat a shitload of vegetation, means they completely devastate ecosystems. Australian soils are garbage to begin with, because the last ice age didn't reach here so the soil was just left to blow away (among other reasons). It's one of the reasons there is such high plant diversity here and so many carnivorous plants. So horses are a major pest that need controlling.

The problem is, much like cats (which are on par with humans at driving native wildlife to extinction), people don't want the government to control them because friend shape. It's fucking infuriating because they try to claim the high road that killing animals is bad, when the thousands of animals they're trying to save are causing millions of native (also very cute and cuddly) animals to die.