![]() ![]() “A girl has just popped out of the middle of nowhere,” he tells me. Then, rounding a soft bend 4.5 kilometres from Metung, a woman appears out of the pitch-black, running across the opposite lane towards his car. ![]() He passes the dog kennels that care for Jasper and Kiro and is now deep into farmland that gently undulates between Metung and the Tambo River. He follows Metung Road up a hill, leaving behind the town lights. And he’s driving just under the 70-kilometre speed limit because, as a local, he knows this is wombat territory. He cruises past the Metung shops, past the yacht club, and – in a decision that still haunts him – past the Rosherville Road turnoff, his regular shortcut home to Swan Reach, 10 minutes away. Macklin loads the dogs into the back of his brand-new, $60,000 Toyota RAV4 (“lovely car, great car”), into which he’s sunk his entire recent divorce payout. ![]() Now, early on this Monday morning in October 2019, the 33-year-old has driven to Shaving Point, a picnic area in nearby Metung, to give Jasper and Kiro a run and quick sausages cooked up on the public barbecue. But Daniel Macklin has just clocked off from a forklift-driving shift in Bairnsdale, in eastern Victoria. ![]() It’s just before 1am, an odd time to be walking dogs. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ![]()
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