According to Wildlife Victoria, in 193 parishes in Eastern Victoria (east of the Hume Highway, which is the main distribution of wombats in Victoria) Common Wombats have been declared unprotected wildlife.

In these parishes, a farmer can kill wombats without the need to obtain a permit. There are no records kept of the number of wombats killed or their population figures.
Wombats are smart. They have a large brain and they know how to use it. They are able to run able run to about 40 km/hr.

Common wombats are classified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) red list as a species of least concern. However, wombats are protected by law in Australia, except in Victoria where they are viewed as vermin!
We lost over one million native animals in Black Saturday's inferno, and there are no "over abundant" species!

The Common Wombat can breed every two years and produce a single joey, which leaves the backwards facing pouch after nine to eleven months (weighing between 3.5 and 6.5 kilograms). The joey is weaned at around 12 to 15 months of age and is usually independent at 18 months of age.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Wombat

The threats to wombats include destruction of habitat to urban sprawl, logging, competition with feral animals, poisons and road accidents.

The Colonial mentality of the assets of land-holders being above the value of indigenous inhabitants or the environment needs to be challenged. We can't allow farmers the "right" to kill any native animals that enter their property.

The idea that "common" wildlife are "pests" and need to be "culled" needs to be changed!

Kangaroos have been deemed an "environmental threat" in Canberra!

Due to some shonky and unproven "science", the "Bush Capital" of Canberra has deemed that kangaroos are an "environmental threat"!

Canberra's tourism taskforce chairman David Marshall says that a boycott of Canberra could be "potentially dangerous" in an economic downturn. However, animal activists have very few avenues left as they do not have a lot of money, and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal didn't have the power over Defence or the city's administrators. Where can they turn?

Many businesses maybe currently struggling, but while there are dubious "experts" in control of major decisions, such as the mass slaughter of native kangaroos in the "Bush Capital" where tourists would expect to see them, they should expect repercussions!

Expert marksmen with rifles, decapitations of hairless joeys, and lethal injections for older joeys, cannot be so easily sanitised and justified! The public didn't buy the "starving" kangaroo excuse, and now these native animals are being treated as an "environmental threats" as if they were cane-toads or rabbits!

People and livestock add to economic growth, and wildlife only get a few tourists. So, they deny kangaroos even the little grass they eat! Native grasslands are being threatened by weeds, feral animals and human impacts. Kangaroos are a convenient scapegoat. Why don't the "experts" address the real threats?