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"Prior to the cannery and long after, there was an enormous rabbit plague, right across southern Australia," Ms Andrews said. "It spread very quickly from the release of a few rabbits in 1859 and ...

"The rabbit plague was in the 50s, and for a lot of us, some of us alive today, we haven't seen rabbit numbers at that extreme population. We've never seen a landscape without rabbits," she said.