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GRAHAME WEBB, ZOOLOGIST: The Top End of the Northern Territory is known internationally through crocodiles and people love it.
MATT GARRICK: Tony Blums has operated crocodile cruises on the Adelaide River, southeast of Darwin, for nearly 40 years.TONY BLUMS: It wasn't pleasant. It took the parks people and the police came out obviously and it took them a couple hours to find the body. As far as I was told down there, the arm was missing, the croc had taken the arm, they just do the death roll with it, and it just breaks off.
MATT GARRICK: Crocodile hunting was once widespread in the territory as demand for crocodile skins spiked around the globe after the second world war. PETER STRETTON, DARWIN RESIDENT: I just think there needs to be a bit more control, maybe more traps around here, for example. You should be able to take your kids and your pets onto the beach, simple as that.
Every five years, we go through this same debate all around the country, everyone puts in their two cents in, and we end up with the same conclusions: That the most economic and sound way of managing crocs in the Northern Territory is the way we're managing them now. MATT GARRICK: The minister disagrees that last year’s call for a culling debate was purely political.
JIDA GULPILIL, GUPULUL MARAYUWU ABORIGINAL CORP: People do want to live and prosper on their own homeland and what better way to be able to do that.
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