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Oof. No, farming them for meat means breeding them which practically guarantees their escape into the wild as an invasive pest.

I could see the argument for keeping a fixed one as a pet because there's no risk if a fixed one escapes... But even then, that would still create cottage industry of breeding them, and that's bad.

This doesn't pertain to Australia, but if you have served in the peace corps(unless something has changed) rabbits used to be fairly popular animals to give people in third world counties. It produces lots of offspring(if you are lucky enough for them to breed) which is probably its biggest benefit.

> if you are lucky enough for them to breed

Lucky? How do you stop them?

Cut off their feet, that reduces their luck.

It is fortunately legal to hunt and eat them everywhere in Australia.

Rabbits suck. I'm trying to find a good source, but it's well-known to outdoorsmen that a diet of rabbit alone is not sufficiently nutritious to sustain humans when compared to other meats.

Also, it's Australia. Rabbits got out of control because people had this hubris about managing them; they won't permit that mistake again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning