Feral horses and their recent romanticisation
Australian feral horses were always considered to be pest animals and were systematically exterminated by pastoralists Australia-wide, from the first wild horse populations establishing themselves until relatively recently.
Starting in the 1950's with the anthropomorphising Silver Brumby childrens books (then the film, TV series and cartoon series), the 1982 Man from Snowy River movie and then the various vested interest groups that have glamourised the high-country feral horses, just as they did with cattle grazing in national parks.
This enculturation by popular media is probably at the heart of the existing public sympathy for the notion of wild "brumbies" in the mountains.
What they didn't show in the Man from Snowy River movie was that the entire mob they chased down in that poem would have been destroyed on the spot once the stockmen recovered "the colt from old Regret"
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