Every time I read about the Minister for Indigenous Affairs I imagine an office that is a cross between a gallery and a museum celebrating Australia’s true indigenes – its unique fauna and flora. What ‘affairs’ are those naughty marsupials up to I wonder?

Or is it the recent blow-ins who are indulging in dalliances – the grasses, grains and grazing animals which are here due to the arrival of our species, the Hominidae (whoever and whenever they arrived) – which have changed the natural order of things for Australian indigenous biota.