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An eastern grey kangaroo has given birth to an albino baby after mating with a roo who has the rare genetic mutation.  The snow white joey was born at Panorama Garden Estate on the Mornington Peninsula, south east of Melbourne, last month.  Annemaree Van Rooy, the owner of the uncommon kangaroo family, said it wasn't difficult to spot the new addition to the sanctuary when he popped his head out of his mother's pouch. An eastern grey kangaroo has given birth to an albino kangaroo that looks just like his dad The snow white joey was born at Panorama Garden Estate on the Mornington Peninsula, south east of Melbourne, last month  The albino kangaroo pops its head out of his mother's pouch on the Mornington Peninsula on September 15 The mutation means the baby kangaroo looks nothing like his mother who has dark grey and brown fur. Instead, the marsupial loses pigmentation to the hair, eyes and skin and is pure white.  This is not the first time Panorama Garden Estate has welco

A fisherman who sparked a statewide four-day search after he went missing on his boat has disappeared again just two weeks later. Tony Higgins, 57, was moored near Granite Island off Victor Harbor, south of Adelaide, when he made a distress call to police around 5am on Tuesday. Mr Higgins said his wooden fishing boat Margrel was 'taking on water' and police have now launched another search operation with a rescue helicopter and Sea Rescue volunteers. The fisherman and his friend Derek Robinson, 48, sparked South Australia's largest maritime search in history when they went missing while travelling from South Australia's Coffin Bay near Port Lincoln to Goolwa on September 3. Tony Higgins, 57, was moored near Granite Island off Victor Harbor, south of Adelaide when he made a distress call to police around 5am on Tuesday The duo were a day into their trip on the 10-metre wooden-hulled fishing boat when they started to experience engine trouble. They were eventually found o

The United States is on the cusp of a huge pig 'time bomb' with feral hogs increasing in huge numbers.  Research scientist Dr. Jack Mayer, a zoologist who has been researching wild pigs for 40 years, has warned that the population could keep on growing unless there is a sudden swine flu epidemic.  'It's a crazy situation with everything that's happened in what I call the Pig Bomb, which has exploded in North America,' Jack Mayer told The Daily Beast about the wild population of six million and two million in Texas alone.  Florida, Georgia, and California also have vast populations.    Feral hogs are digging up farms and eating livestock as states battle to control populations 'There's not another animal that can put little feet on the ground quicker than a wild pig.'  Mayer blames global warming for increasing the survival rate of newborn piglets and producing more acorns, bulbs, roots and tubers for them to eat.  They can start reproducing at just t

John Lennon's killer has apologised to the singer's widow, Yoko Ono, saying he thinks about the 'despicable act' all the time. Mark David Chapman, 65, was denied parole for an 11th time following a hearing last month. He has been locked up since murdering the beloved former Beatle in Manhattan in December 1980. He shot Lennon four times outside the Dakota apartment building in the Upper West Side, as Ono looked on.  A transcript of the parole hearing has revealed that the board rejected Chapman's release on the grounds it 'would be incompatible with the welfare of society'.  Mark David Chapman, seen left in a 2018 mugshot, has been denied parole for the 11th time. He murdered John Lennon in front of his wife, Yoko Ono, outside The Dakota in Manhattan in 1980 Yoko Ono and John Lennon during their 'bed-in' in the presidential suite of the Hilton hotel in Amsterdam in March 1969 During the hearing, Chapman said he killed Lennon, 40, for 'glory'

A kebab shop owner in Sydney's LGBTI heartland has been driven off social media over a homophobic meme.  Ziftekhar Hasan's business, Yilmaz Grill & Bakehouse in Waterloo in Sydney's south has been the target of increasing backlash from neighbours after the offensive post was shared to the shop's Facebook page.  The page was then inundated with so many negative comments and reviews, even after Mr Hasan issued a grovelling apology, that he was forced to close the account.  Mr Hasan said he has been seeing increasing backlash from locals after the post  'It came to my attention that an eatery in our building was posting ant-gay memes. I will not be buying from there again ... I urge the gays of the village to boycott this business,' one neighbour wrote.  Mr Hasan defended the meme which Daily Mail Australia has chosen not to publish due to its offensive content.  'It's not about me being homophobic it's just me sharing a meme that I've seen o

Fruit and vegetables could double in price by Christmas because unemployed Australians refuse to move out to regional farms to work. Despite the government offering the unemployed a generous allowance to move to a regional area, only 233 have signed up in the past year. Fewer backpackers due to the coronavirus pandemic has left the agriculture industry with a predicted labour shortfall of 71,000 workers, which could cause a price rise by the end of the year. The cost of fruit and vegetables could double by Christmas because unemployed Australians refuse to move out to regional farms to work With backpacker workers continuing to leave the country due to the COVID-19 crisis, data has found jobless Australians refuse to move to regional areas for work The Relocation Assistance gives unemployed people $6,000 when they relocate to a regional area for work if they have been without work for 12 months. They would have to relocate for a work placement of at least six months at 30 hours per we

A Colombian student who died when a car allegedly hit her motorcycle has been remembered as 'playful and happy'.  Maria Alejandra Landazabal Contreras was waiting at a red light in Moorebank, south-west Sydney, when a Honda HR-V allegedly struck her from behind about 11.35pm on Saturday.  The 27-year-old was rushed to Liverpool Hospital with severe head and internal injuries but died the next morning. Maria Alejandra Landazabal Contreras died on Sunday after a Saturday night crash The Honda HR-V allegedly hit Ms Contreras's motorcycle about 11.35pm on Saturday Ms Contreras moved from Colombia to Sydney earlier this year and was staying with host Rosa Rutte in Engadine, where she helped care for Ms Rutte's twin daughters.  'She made an instant connection with my daughters and reminded me of myself when I came to Australia as a student,' Ms Rutte told The Daily Telegraph.  'She had a kid's soul, she will play with my daughter hide and seek, she do their