Crucial Wombat Time

The Wombat (Vombatus ursinus)

Treasury boss Ken Henry leaves post to look after wombats

By Steve Lewis, National Political Correspondent

June 27, 2008 12:00am

THE man at the helm of Australia's troubled economy will leave his post for nearly five weeks to look after a colony of endangered wombats.

Ken Henry, the Treasury Secretary, will miss an important Reserve Bank board meeting and be without a mobile phone as he ventures into remote Epping Forest National Park in central Queensland.

The Coalition has questioned who will be running economic policy at a "crucial time", with key decisions pending on carbon trading, tax reform and foreign investment.

Wombats in Cradle Mountain National Park

All his professional duties, including completing a first draft of the Government's "root and branch" tax review, will be delegated to other Treasury officials.

Link & Related :

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23928916-5007132,00.html

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eye of the wombat

Common Wombats

Let me say right from the start (from personal experience) Wombats are smart. They have a large brain and they know how to use it. They are frolicsome and will play with what seems like inexhaustible energy. They are also quite fast afoot, able to run at around 40 km/hr. They are particularly fast and smart when a packet of chocolate biscuits is about to be put out of reach.

Link

Wild Wombats

Mange in Wombats

The story of Brutus

http://www.australianfauna.com/wombat.php

The Adventures of Barry the Wombat (Aussie Humor, watch at own risk)

Cranky common wombat

Wombat Information Homepage

http://www.wombania.com/wombats/

If you don't know what a wombat is, then you've come to the right place. We have articles about the wombat's behavior, diet, physical characteristics, and life cycle, as well as picture galleries and an extensive list of links.