U.S. Activists Try to Halt an Australian Way of Life: Killing Kangaroos A bill in Congress aims to ban all kangaroo products from Australia, setting up a clash between two very different kinds of people on opposite ends of the earth. Ian White, a commercial hunter, carrying a kangaroo he had shot in Surat, Australia. May 22, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET SURAT, Australia — Ian White drove slowly over the red dirt track, past wheat stubble and into the long grass, where he glimpsed a tuft of white fur moving near the woods to his left. It was a warm autumn night in the Australian outback. He turned on the spotlight sitting atop his truck, finding a kangaroo 150 yards away.