From the moment Tanya Plibersek stepped off the plane yesterday, she has been handwringing on critical areas of her portfolio responsibility in Tasmania.
It does what all animals do to survive: it goes to where the food is. That is the beauty of the swift parrot.
It is one of just three migratory parrots in the world, two are Tasmanian resident. It has the longest-known migration of any parrot.
There is just a tiny number of critically endangered swift parrots remaining. We need to go all out to protect the remaining nesting and foraging trees.
There are likely fewer than a thousand Swift parrots left on earth, but Forestry Tasmania is obliterating high quality foraging & nesting habitat
Forestry Tasmania is in there right now, like barbarians in a cathedral, destroying critical habitat of the fastest parrot on the planet.
The fastest parrot on Earth is listed as endangered under the Threatened Species Protection Act and critically endangered under the EPBC Act.
Can you confirm that within your agency, there was a threat that the state may withdraw its support for the Swift Parrot Recovery Plan?
Governments have a moral responsibility to protect intact habitat and build carbon stores, but that’s not reflected in this year’s State Budget.
Resources Minister, Felix Ellis, may think he's God's gift to Parliament, but he is quickly gaining a reputation for arrogance and shameless science denials.