Australian Society for Kangaroos (ASK)  is a great organization that focuses on kangaroo issues Australia wide.  Here I will list interesting information regarding the good works done by this society.  Thank you ASK for being such a positive influence on the lives of kangaroos - everywhere!  

You are their Guardian Angels.

 Australian Society for Kangaroos ‎@Lisa and Chantel, as we have previously said we believe, as do many kangaroo experts, that it was unprovoked because the kangaroo was caught by surprise, as was most likely Mrs Lawrence. The kangaroo got startled and panicked, she said she went arond a corner and didnt see it, it didnt come from nowhere. The startling and then panic is the basis of all kangaroo attacks or if there is a dog involved and the kangaroo will try to defend itself against the dog. The residential area you refer to is, as we have been told by a local, about 10 years old and has been built on an area of long standing kangaroo home range. Unless you kill each and every kangaroo in the area you can never be certain of any safety, if that is your wish then why live on the outskirts of a rural town, as this will always be the case, in any rural town in Australia. For the future of all our wildlife we need to learn to live with them, and help them to live with us and better equip ourselves with knowledge and understanding to do so, not just kill them. The only thing we can be certain of in life is uncertainty.

 Australian Society for Kangaroos ‎@Jake, aahhh the aboriginal cultural diet was not made of kangaroo meat alone, many communities were in coastal areas and relied on fish and birds, inland many also ate birds, lizards and goannas etc...kangaroo was only a part of their diet, of which they also used every part. They also used a totemic system so that whatever animal was your totem you did not consume. This was a highly intelligent system that ensured they did not over eat a particular species, and that they always had a continual food source, this was also out of respect for these animals that were born of their creation, their dreamtime. Kangaroos now face a commercial industry where millions are slaughtered annually for their skins, meat and pet food, not because of any damage they cause but for profit, this has been admitted by the government. Many kangaroos also die from cars, get mauled and killed by feral and domestic dogs, chased only to die of stress myopathy weeks later, they get hung up in fences because we dont allow passage or corridors for them to pass through, get pushed further and further from fertile feeding grounds by development, suffer disease and so on. kangaroo populations, according to government data, have crashed by 55% since 2001, and have not recovered. How far do Australians want this to go?

 Australian Society for Kangaroos In relation to previous comments about kangaroos getting 'out of control' 'killing crops', comparable to mice in our cupboards and canetoads in our backyards, and that this post is 'preying on the emotions of foreigners who know no better', ASK would simply like to point out that those that promote the kangaroo industry have spent millions of dollars on promoting the commercial kangaroo industry while preying on the emotions of the public. Claims that kangaroos will starve to death if they are not killed, that they are breeding out of control after the floods that they will 'wreak havoc' on agriculture, are all repeatedly used by the commercial kangaroo industry to justify what is the world's largest wildlife slaughter. However not only are these claims completely unfounded, our government and their scientists have openly admitted that the commercial slaughter of kangaroos is not for population control, animal welfare, or agricultural protection but profit by an industry that slaughters our national icon to make pet food and sports shoes for European and Asian footwear companies. The truth is that kangaroos are well and truly outnumbered by sheep and cattle (1:5) and consume just 1/20th the volume of grass (State of Environment Report 2006). SO kangaroos are not the problem here. Research by the CSIRO and UNSW clearly states that the competition between sheep and cattle is negligible and that kangaroos rarely visit grain crops. Finally in relation to the argument that kangaroos need to be slaughtered so they don't starve, the commercial kangaroo industry does not kill the weak and old that are at risk from drought, but the biggest and the best who will give them the bigger returns on their skins and meat. Kangaroos do not overbreed, and can have one joey per year. Credible research shows that they can actually only increase at a rate of 11 % per year and that once they reach an equilibrium with their environment, their population will stabilise.(Banks, Aronold). So it is not necessarily the Australian Society for Kangaroos that is promoting false information about this issue, it is the kangaroo industry and those with vested interests in it that are promoting information that is 'emotional' as well as unfounded,and that has had a massive influence on how Australian's and 'foreigners' view kangaroos and their commercial slaughter.