G'day again Murray,

Even though they actually have Australia's largest roos, the Tasmanian Forester, they rarely see them and Taswegians call the Bennet's Wallaby a Roo - and (at one of the Midlands football club) they organise annual Roo Drives to shoot them and then hold a 'Roo' barbecue afterwards.

Somewhere in my files I have pic of a sign advertising burgers at the Huon Valley (Cygnet) Folk Festival: Roo is listed ... but Healthy / Vegitarian (sic) was N/A! Bennet's Wallaby is 'macropus rufogriseus' .. the same as what we tend to call the ‘red-necked wallaby’ in the Blue Mountains.

The smaller potorid wallaby, found in the wet sclerophyl and rainforest is called (somebody else)’s Wallaby but I can’t remember whose! When it comes to me, I will post the correct name - there are so many small wallabies named for long gone naturalists that it is hard to remember them all.

Regards,

Bob Bolton