8 Jun 2021

NSW mouse plague spilling over into towns, cities

From First Up, 5:44 am on 8 June 2021

It's feared that the plague of mice which is eating its way across rural New South Wales could swarm the country's towns and cities next. Entire farms and homes have been overrun by billions of rodents, in the country's worst mice plague for decades. Authorities are now trying to get approval to use a highly-toxic poison to get the population under control, a controversial move that it's feared will kill native animals. Our producer Matthew Theunissen found out about the skin-crawling infestation.