The dingo is amongst the largest of Fraser Island’s fauna, and it is made to play a prominent part in the commercial advertising geared to selling the island and its major up-market resort, Kingfisher Bay, to visitors. It figures extensively in leaflets, guidebooks, magazine articles and maps, as well as on postcards, T-shirts, posters, videos and the many other commercial items commonplace in Australian tourist destinations. Yet in mid-1998, at the same time that the dingo’s iconic potential was being commercially explored, rangers in charge of the island’s many eco-tours were in a backroom of the Kingfisher Bay Resort drawing up a profile of dingoes selected for disposal. On an office wall chart, the distinctive markings and current misdemeanours of several dingoes were being carefully recorded, with a view to transporting them to the north of the island, or feeding them arsenic-laced food, or shooting them - though the word actually used by local rangers and regional politicians was `culling’.