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The Quiet Disappearance of Australia’s Urban Platypuses
Newspapers used to describe sightings of dozens at a time. These days, one researcher says, “most Australians have never seen one.”
The Quiet Disappearance of Australia s Urban Platypuses
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It is dusk beside a creek and we are instructed to look for a trail of bubbles, under which could be one of the world’s weirdest mammals.
When you’re desperate to see a platypus in the fading light, everything looks like one.
Floating logs from bank-side paperbark trees, gyrating leaves caught in a dance with the wind, and what was probably a water-rat dashing from rocks they all make the heart briefly skip. But there’s no sign of the egg-laying, duck-billed, flat-tailed, and venomous monotreme.
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The board of the powerful Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation appointed a new chief executive late last year in the face of strong opposition from the Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt.
The revelation follows the exposure by
The Sydney Morning Herald and
The Age of deep dysfunction inside the board of the corporation, one of the countryâs most significant Indigenous statutory organisations which manages hundreds of millions of dollarsâ worth of assets including Ayers Rock Resorts.
Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt did not support the ILSCâs choice of CEO.
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The Age reveal that four days before the board announced Joseph Morrison as the new CEO on December 4, the minister wrote to corporation chairman Eddie Fry saying he opposed the appointment and the board should reconsider its nomination.