In some instances the results were disastrous, such as the economic and ecological effects of introducing rabbits to Australia or possums to New Zealand.
Events recreated in the film include Robert Menzies' return as Prime Minister of Australia, the 1951 referendum to ban the communist party, Post-war immigration to Australia, the combatting of the rabbit plague, the 1955 Hunter Valley floods and the 1956 introduction of television in Australia.
The cause of the extinction remains uncertain: neither of the two most destructive introduced exterminator species, the fox and the rabbit, had yet arrived in south-west Western Australia when the pig-footed bandicoot disappeared from that area.
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