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Our ABC, Aborigines, bushfires, climate change, koalas and rainforest

11 July 2021

5:04 PM

11 July 2021

5:04 PM

After CSIRO published my Ecological History of the Koala in Wildlife Research, the ABC made a rare mistake. Fran Kelly interviewed me on Radio National Breakfast and let slip that koalas were a rare species when Europeans arrived. The academics in the koala industry were outraged and Kelly apparently took a lot of heat.  

Aunty learnt from her mistake.

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