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Australia completes kangaroo cull

Australian officials have completed a cull of more than 500 kangaroos which animal activists had protested was an unjustified slaughter, the Defence Department said on Tuesday. Some 514 eastern grey kangaroos were killed at a former naval communications base in the national capital Canberra by lethal injection, a defence spokeswoman said. "The cull proceeded according to plan and the process was completed in 10 days." The Australian Capital

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