This painting was based on a cartoon I drew some years ago after driving back to Hobart airport early one morning: the road was littered with the body of native animals hit by cars during the night, I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many dead wombats, and it got me daydreaming about the impact on the local wombat community. In the original drawing, the kangaroo on the right is giving an eulogy for his friend, the dead wombat. He intones ‘he was a good wombat and a loyal friend for seven years. He leaves behind him a wife and three children…’