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No exaggeration at all. We live about 1km from the bush of Mt Ainslie as the crow flies and we have a couple of kangaroos that come into our garden almost nightly because we have a water source that they drink from. Occasionally, but not often I have seen them hopping down the street I live in during the day and one day almost collected one that was hopping down the main road in Ainslie as it decided to cross to go towards the bush. I saw one recently as road kill near Capital Hill which is the real centre of town and I have seen more than one dead by the side of the road very close to Parliament House. The Governor General and the Royal Canberra Golf Club have loads of them! They are also in almost plague proportions on Mt Ainslie and one jumped onto the boot of my (hire) car in Watson a few years ago - made a very big dent!!! The thing about Canberra is that it is the bush capital and the bush comes into the suburbs like veins in a leaf and so the wildlife can easily get in via bush corridors but that doesnt stop them using the roads either.
They have certainly become worse in the past 10 years. Before that, you didnt get nearly as many urban road kills. Unfortunately the government isnt nearly as good at collecting urban road kills either and if you go to work along some of the main drags you can plot the decomposition time table of those which have been hit - first they blow up really big, then the birds get to them and they go down in size then you get the skin and bones by the side of the road - yummy!!!
You do know that people actually eat kangaroo dont you? My son lives in the bush and shoots his own, butchers it and they eat it - my DH has it several times a week but I still havent managed to get a taste for it.
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