Fences II

​The big Australian dingo fence is 5,614 km long. The big Western Australian rabbit fence is 3,256 km long. The little Queensland rabbit fence is 555 kilometres long.

That comes to 9,425 kilometres, roughly three times longer than the US-Mexican border.

We can do this! 

Especially considering this update from Wikipedia; “Today, the rate at which feral camel are smashing down sections of the fence is fast increasing in Southern Australia. Plans for restructuring the Dog Fence to be taller and electric are in the works.” And this; “Parts of the Dingo Fence are lit at night by 86 mm cold cathode fluorescent lamps which are alternately red and white.”

You have to wonder, don’t you, at the audacity of putting animal fences half way across the country, and electrifying and illuminating them.

Maybe we could fence the North Western coast line as a cheap way of keeping all those asylum seekers out.