There is an article in today’s edition of “The Sun” which states that forty cane toads, from Queensland, that were let loose at Sydney University on Christmas Eve, are said to be responsible for the deaths of a cat and a dog at Kellyville, a western suburb of Sydney.
The cane toad, a native of South America, was introduced to Australia, from Hawaii, in 1935, to eat the beetle which was attacking crops of sugar cane. However, upon its release the poisonous cane toad decided that it was not as fond of the cane beetle as scientists had been led to believe.
In response to Hawaii allowing Australia to import the cane toad the archipelago was sent the tree that bears the macadamia nut.
In the centre of this same newspaper there is a photograph of tennis champion, Evonne Cawley (nee Goolagong), who, despite the fact that she is eight months pregnant, is clad only in a bikini.