Camper's terrifying night at Lake Burrumbeet on the eve of duck shooting season

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March 27 2019 - 5:30am
Mr Convery, who was staying on the south shore of the lake, said he was too scared to leave the tent. Picture: Lachlan Bence
Mr Convery, who was staying on the south shore of the lake, said he was too scared to leave the tent. Picture: Lachlan Bence

An artist from Ballarat has described a "scary, scary" night camping on Lake Burrumbeet as duck hunters shot a wallaby just metres from his tent.

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Jolyon Attwooll

Journalist

Reporter at the Ballarat Courier. Ex-Londoner and former commissioning editor at The Telegraph (the UK broadsheet, not the Sydney tabloid).

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