This book is about the Aborigines and the early explorers, settlers and timbergetters who usurped their paradise. It is an attempt to breathe a little life through dusty archives, old tattered photographs and records so that the people can live again, if only long enough to tell us their story.

"What happend to Alice and all her friends?"
photo by author

Their tale is a cautionary one and to date it has not inspired our new managers to create local community acceptable policy to preserve fully in tact the paradise the victims were murdered for and the handful that eventually survived and then lost possession.

If dreamtime dingoes make us human (Rose 1999) it's not hard to understand why Princess K'Gari is continuously dissolved in tears under these current managers policies as well as Aboriginal elders constantly lamenting about the current unacceptable strategies and actions of the present regime.

The latter half of Princess K'Gari's Fraser Island Since 1991 K'gari (or paradise) has seen all the enforcements, a full scale dingo war with guns in the National Park and World Heritage listed area as a tool of conservation management.

The total loss of human safety due to unacceptable management policy, pseudo Nazi rangers, lack of Forestry maintenance management, fire controls, forest data, seed collection, skills, the right machinery to fight fires (even leadership is lost) and worst of all the total loss of those magnificent timid, shy, specimens the dingoes that lived on Fraser prior to 1991, it all holds the appearance and feel of P A R A D I S E    L O S T.

"Fairy Dell like forest"
photo by author

WHERE IS THEIR NEXT RED MEAT MEAL COMING FROM?

The tragic loss of the brumbies that usually only live for around 5 to 9 years, they often die of chronic sand colic - this caused the dingo and other fauna to loose an extremely valuable source of high protein, trace elements, vitamins and minerals. As this source was withdrawn (wasted) what alternative replacement food was responsibly provided by the managers?

Photo by author.


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