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Laine Clark and Fraser Barton

Plan to shoot reptiles with rubber bullets is no croc

This 2.5m crocodile has been removed from a central Queensland creek after it was approaching boats. (HANDOUT/DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE AND INNOVATION)

Crocodiles may be shot with rubber bullets as part of a trial to scare them away from inhabited areas under a revised Queensland management plan.

But, unlike the Northern Territory, the state government has ruled out culling the reptiles just weeks after a 16-year-old boy died in a suspected crocodile attack.

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