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#OZWATCH: Rescuing Droughtmaster in a river of venomous snakes and spiders. JEREMY ZAKIS, NEW SOUTH WALES. #FRIENDSOFHISTORYDEBATINGSOCIETY

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 16 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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#OZWATCH: Rescuing Droughtmaster in a river of venomous snakes and spiders. JEREMY ZAKIS, NEW SOUTH WALES. #FRIENDSOFHISTORYDEBATINGSOCIETY


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/farmers-fight-floods-snakes-spiders-to-save-cattle-and-crops/105043934

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0:00.0

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everything secure. This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Betts with Jeremy

1:00.3

Zach's at New South Wales, where it's very hot. The Queensland to the north of Jeremy had a

1:06.2

cyclone come through there, as Jeremy just reported, got downgraded to a tropical storm, but a great

1:11.8

deal of rain. Here's the challenge for everyone. The prize start of Nick Culkin, a farmer, was drowning

1:21.4

in the river that was flooding around him. It was caught up in the wires, the barbed wires. He has wire cutters in his

1:30.3

hand. He has to get to the Droughtmaster who is not going to last long, except racing by him

1:41.0

are creatures. What creatures, Jeremy?

1:48.4

Well, John, they're the creatures you don't want to have next to you in the flood.

1:49.6

They are the snakes.

1:50.6

They are the spiders.

1:55.1

They are the things that crawl, that bite, that try and attack you and kill you at any given opportunity.

1:58.8

And I should say, too, it wasn't just one type of snake either.

2:04.3

He had red-belly black snakes, very venomous, great eastern brown snakes, extremely venomous.

2:08.8

And apparently, too, they were reporting pathons all up and down that wither as well.

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