This report examines the committee's inquiry into the status, health and sustainability of one of Australia's most loved and iconic native animals – the koala.

On 20 August 2009 the Senate instructed the Standing Committee on Environment and Communications to inquire and report on the ability of the Commonwealth, across state borders, to sustainably manage water resources in the national interest, with particular reference to: a) the issuing, and sustainability of water licences under any government draft resource plans and...