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Speaker 1: I didn't believe this week. I got the info from

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Speaker 1: the Kangaroo Island Council this afternoon. A community sculpture's I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure if it's brass or what it is. Looks

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Speaker 1: okay though it's a few kangaroos, a roo with a

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Speaker 1: Joey in the pouch has gone missing from the corner

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Speaker 1: of Penashow, a corner in Penashow, and it's a council

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Speaker 1: owned community sculpture. The council has put out an appeal

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Speaker 1: for anyone with information to get it back. Let's have

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Speaker 1: a chat to the me or Michael Pengilly Michael, not

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Speaker 1: the biggest issue in the world, but just crazy to

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Speaker 1: think things like this happens.

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Speaker 2: Oh, good evening, Matthew, and good evening listeners. Yeah. Look,

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Speaker 2: it's very disappointing and it's an absolutely mongrel act. As

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Speaker 2: far as I'm concerned. This was a great attraction for

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Speaker 2: visitors and locals alike. It was situated on the corner

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Speaker 2: of Middle Terrace and Thomas Wilson Strait. As you sort

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Speaker 2: of entered Penashore coming from the west. There it was well,

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Speaker 2: there's some rouse there. This was a mother with a

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Speaker 2: Joey and Philip Baynes made it. It was gifted to

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Speaker 2: the community. It went in part of the Town Centers

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Speaker 2: project and some dreadful people or person has taken it

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Speaker 2: one night and it's probably somewhere on Australia.

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Speaker 1: Now yeah, yeah, that's that's really sad. There were three

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Speaker 1: of them. The other two are still there, aren't there?

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Speaker 1: That are they? What are they brows or similar bets.

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Speaker 2: And pieces of scrap metal? Really yeah, well it's very

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Speaker 2: very well done. It's yeah. Look, it's just a shame

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Speaker 2: and we need these attractions and this was one for

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Speaker 2: everybody to have a lookout. And you know, it's a

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Speaker 2: sort of an act as far as I'm concerned.

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Speaker 1: I guess your local constabulary is looking into it.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they've got a favorite to look into any

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Speaker 2: given time. It's pretty hard to track it down. I

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Speaker 2: suspect what's happened as somebody's gone along in the wee

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Speaker 2: hours of the night and detached from the footpath or

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Speaker 2: base and put it and put it in a vehicle

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Speaker 2: or whatever, and it's gone on the boat the next day.

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Speaker 2: Pretty much. I may be wrong, but that's what I suspect.

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Speaker 1: Well, hopefully it turns up somewhere. I imagine you'd be

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Speaker 1: well asking locals and certainly appealing to people on the

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Speaker 1: island to keep a lookout and if anyone knows anything,

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Speaker 1: come forward, Oh very much.

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Speaker 2: So people are pretty annoyed about it all around the island,

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Speaker 2: and it's something we just didn't need, especially with the

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Speaker 2: cruise ship season starting next Tuesday. I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: we have a lot of passengers and cruishers swimming around

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Speaker 2: Penashore looking at things, and this was something they looked at. Yeah. Look,

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Speaker 2: the locals are not happy. I can assure you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet a life on the island otherwise, Michael,

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Speaker 1: pretty good. How's the bee situation going. I know people

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Speaker 1: boarding the ferries at Cape Jarvis will been asked if

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Speaker 1: they're carrying any honey, anything from the hotel, anything like that.

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Speaker 1: That's probably been happening for a little while now, those checks,

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Speaker 1: I imagine, well it has.

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Speaker 2: But what we were concerned about at the moment is

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Speaker 2: the rower, but which if it got into the islands.

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Speaker 2: Lagurian Bee Sanctuary would certainly decimate that. So now they've

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Speaker 2: put in the government put in infections on every boat

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Speaker 2: that leaves Ca Jervis. It's not to say that it

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Speaker 2: wouldn't sneak through, but at least it gives you a

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Speaker 2: bit of chance of holding it up. And the bees

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Speaker 2: themselves are still recovering from the fires nearly six years ago.

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Speaker 2: Back you and this is about the last thing they needed,

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Speaker 2: between that and the alga blame. And everyones knows what

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Speaker 2: else is always seems to be something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. The animals, the birds, those black cockatoos

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Speaker 1: that were endangered I think in the fires. Are they

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Speaker 1: bouncing back.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they are, the glossy black cockatoos, which are a

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Speaker 2: subspecies of the red tar in the Eastern States. Yes

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Speaker 2: they are. Their numbers are good. Over the years, has

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Speaker 2: been quite a bit of drooping she put in around

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Speaker 2: the island and that's now producing seeds. So the birds

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Speaker 2: moving around and nesting in places where probably they wouldn't

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Speaker 2: have nested once. They're actually doing really well at places

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Speaker 2: like American River. Just about anybody in American River that

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Speaker 2: wants to go there or lives there, these birds and

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Speaker 2: regular periods. So no, that's a real good news story.

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Speaker 2: And actually I in McLoughlin kicked that off as the

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Speaker 2: federal minister, he was our local member and he got

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Speaker 2: behind it and got some money to start the preservation.

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Speaker 2: They're doing really well.

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Speaker 1: Excellent, Well, that's really good, okay, Michael. Good speaking with

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Speaker 1: you tonight. I hope you're missing Rout turns up somewhere,

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Speaker 1: and good luck with the tour boat seeds. And that'll

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Speaker 1: certainly bring an influx of more people, certainly, and obviously

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Speaker 1: for local businesses in the town's they're a little bit

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Speaker 1: of much needed income in the pocket.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. And look, thanks for ringing, Matthew. And look, if

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Speaker 2: you've got any of your contacts knows where the kangaroos are,

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Speaker 2: we will have them back.

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Speaker 1: Mate, didn't it was it Matthew Flinder's or somebody wipe

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Speaker 1: them out when they came out, they stopped.

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Speaker 2: Matthew Flinders came as sure. And he actually named it

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Speaker 2: kangaro Island because they walk up these roads who really

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Speaker 2: had seen Germans for thousands of years, and well they

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Speaker 2: killed them and use them for fresh meat. And he

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Speaker 2: was that grateful that he called it Kangaroo Island.

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Speaker 1: Right there we go.

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Speaker 2: No, we've got normal numbers of kangaroos and wallabies over

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Speaker 2: here long with bossums and other things. Matthew, it's just

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Speaker 2: one of those things they do very well here. It's

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Speaker 2: something that's great for visitors, particularly in the nationals. So

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Speaker 2: we like our native wildlife and we do what we

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Speaker 2: can to encourage everyone else to enjoy her as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, beautiful. Got to get back in about ten years

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Speaker 1: or so since I was over there, So I've got

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Speaker 1: to get back and maybe see some routes I reckon, Michael, obviously,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do that.

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Speaker 2: I'll give you a guy a tour, personal tour.

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Speaker 1: Matthew, Hey, got to ask you to the I remember

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Speaker 1: the shots of the fire where there was one particular

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Speaker 1: it was kind of iconic looking down one of the

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Speaker 1: highways you could see for miles and the burnt scrub

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Speaker 1: either side. And I do remember over there how the

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Speaker 1: scrub virtually came up to the road with the re growth.

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Speaker 1: Is council letting that re growth come so close to

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Speaker 1: the road or you're sort of pushing it back with

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Speaker 1: that re growth as it comes back after the fires.

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Speaker 1: Just have a bit of a game.

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Speaker 2: Really good question that was that is and was the

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Speaker 2: iconic road from Flinders Chase headquarters as it was then

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Speaker 2: out too remarkable rotten and cap to Coody, it was

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Speaker 2: just overgrown one day and a black a black fire

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Speaker 2: zone the day after. It all come back, it all

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Speaker 2: looks great. Roadside vegetation is a big part of Kangoro Island.

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Speaker 2: It's actually something we do control on council roads. We

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Speaker 2: keep the roadside cleared up to about two meters either

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Speaker 2: side to it's dangerous for traffic. Also hides kangaroos wallabies,

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Speaker 2: so that's ongoing program. We've got to contain it, but

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Speaker 2: we value it greatly. It's a windbreak, it's an animal

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Speaker 2: and bird wildlife corridor, all of that. So yes, it's

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Speaker 2: all still here. But the road that you were talking

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Speaker 2: about particularly was that road which followed the old track

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Speaker 2: that the horse and carts used to take things out

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Speaker 2: to Kataguy light out.

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Speaker 1: So well there we go. Good on your Michael, great

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Speaker 1: speaking with You'll let you go. Thank you for your

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Speaker 1: time tonight.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Matthew Bardin, The

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Speaker 1: Mayor of Ki Michael Pengilly