I have a nature question. "Is it OK to throttle a koel?" I'm sure it must be, but I thought I had better check first.
Let's face it, come summer holidays in Sydney, there are three scourges that plague us: kids, cockroaches and koels. All of the former should be sent to the far north of Greenland for the holidays; the second we simply squash; but we can't seem to do anything with the koel (pictured).
Whilst researching on the internet "101 ways to kill a koel", I found that they migrate here from New Guinea and Indonesia, both large recipients of Australian foreign aid.
I'm sure if Foreign Minister Julie Bishop were to tie our foreign aid to a kill quota of koels in their home countries, we could both eliminate an environmental scourge and solve a suburban Australian mental health problem. The latter is ironic given that the koel is a member of the cuckoo family.
If I don't hear anything by the next edition of the Leader, I'll take it as OK to begin throttling.
William Hick, Engadine
