Kangaroo cull 'a waste of taxpayers' money'
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514 roos were tranquillised and euthanased at the Belconnen site. (ABC News)
An animal rights group says the recent kangaroo cull in Canberra was an outrageous waste of taxpayers' money.
The Defence Department says the contract to cull more than 500 kangaroos at the Belconnen Naval Transmisson Site cost $470,000.
The controversial two-week cull ended on Friday.
The President of the Wildife Carers Group, Nora Preston, says there was no need to kill the animals and the money would have been better spent on something else.
"You have people starving out there on low income, you have people freezing in the winter time out there," she said.
"Wouldn't have it been better spent to help these people?
"They wouldn't have had to have spent any money at all had have they just kept the kangaroos on the site and alive and well. They were all healthy."
