Bennett’s Wallaby, Bunya Pine, Begonia

When I was ten years old I saved pocket money by shovelling sheep droppings from underneath the family shearing shed and selling trailer-loads off to people to fertilise their gardens. I scraped together $300 and off I went with my older cousin Jason to Tasmania — the land where my grandfather Jack was born and raised. A strong memory from that trip was hunting for wallabies with my cousins and the stew that they made from the meat. The idea of eating the t