After the Coalition's failure, there is no higher duty than being Australia's environment minister | Amelia Young

The portfolio carries the fate of Australia's unique constellation of lifeforms, and the world will be watching whether we choose to let them thrive There isn't another portfolio like it. With a stroke of a pen an environment minister can choose to allow the destruction of a constellation of lifeforms that have existed for tens of millions of years, or can decide instead to help that constellation of life flourish for millions more. It's the portfolio of the million-year legacy.An Australian environment minister carries this responsibility in a way that environment ministers from other countries don't: Australia as the long-isolated island ark, has flora and fauna like nothing else on the globe. Continue reading...