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A group of dingo pups has put an ironic twist into the Fraser Island dingo controversy by reportedly taking up residence under the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service headquarters and prompting residents to believe rangers could be feeding the dogs.

Happy Valley's Bree Jashin made the claims the same day sustainability minister Andrew McNamara and Hervey Bay's LNP candidate battled it out over the government's management of the dingoes.

Ms Jashin said the rangers who had once chastised residents for allowing dingoes to co-exist within the townships had become hypocrites. She's seen the pups sleeping under the rangers' Eurong houses and believes it can only mean someone is “slipping in a feed”.

“According to QPW science, this type of dingo activity is a sure sign of 'feeders',” Ms Jashin said.

“So just who is feeding the dingoes?”

Apart from flying in the face of their own policies, Ms Jashin said that if the rangers were feeding the dingoes, they were effectively sentencing them to death, as dingoes found “loitering and soliciting food” are ear-marked for destruction.

“What's really going on at the rangers' quarters is of great concern, especially since some of the rangers are frightened by dingoes and cruelly haze them with slingshots.

“If the dingo pups moving into the rangers' quarters isn't evidence that someone there is feeding the pups, then let it be a clear message that those officially charged with the conservation of this animal know very little about the dingo and its traditional associations with humans,” she said.

The dingoes' new sleeping habits also raise serious questions about who is really to blame for the controversial dingo fence being erected.

“Dingoes behaving in this manner - that is, just being around - was the only evidence the rangers had to publicly accuse the townships of feeding dingoes,” Ms Jashin said.

“And this, of course, led to the controversial recommendation to fence the townships.

“Perhaps, all along, it was QPW who needed the fence.”

A spokesperson for EPA said rangers were not aware of any dingoes living or sleeping under houses at Eurong Ranger Base.

“Any that were would be actively discouraged.

“If someone has credible evidence to the contrary, please inform the EPA and the matter will be investigated.”