Koala Woman Says Only one Koala has been reported from this electorate, and it was close to another electorate so it was likely to be a temporary visitor. There has never been any suitable natural habitat; the soils are sandy and lacking in the nutrients and water...

Koala Woman Says Kangaroo Island is in this electorate. The tragic bushfire of January 2000 burnt half the island, and an estimated 50% of the Island’s Koalas were killed. Kangaroo Island has clouded the koala conservation debate for the last twenty years. I visited...

Koala Woman Says This electorate includes some of the Adelaide Hills at Teatree Gully but is mostly residential development from Gepps Cross to Greenwith, beyond that is a mainly rural area with an occasional patchwork of fragmented woodland. There are not many Koalas...

Koala Woman Says This electorate was redistributed, and now includes some of the Adelaide Hills So it has gained a few Koalas from Mayo. Kingston also has the lower section of Onkaparinga River Park in it, but there are hardly any trees so few Koalas are reported from...

Koala Woman Says This electorate is on the fringe of the Koala’s distribution but there are a few sightings. There is no natural vegetation left in this electorate so Koalas rely on street and residential trees; they are then exposed to dog attack and vehicle strike...

Koala Woman Says This electorate has the highest density of Koalas on the South Australian mainland and includes the Eden Hills where there are some natural eucalypt woodlands, and Belair National Park proclaimed in 1891. Other hilly areas have certain development...

Koala Woman Says A few Koalas in the south east of this electorate escaped shooting for the fur trade in the 1920s; probably in the Naracoorte area where there is a record from 1944 well before translocations began from Kangaroo Island to the Mt Lofty Ranges. Today...

Koala Woman Says The city of Adelaide is blessed by a green belt connected to the Adelaide Hills by the Torrens River. This provides a corridor for Koalas so that city workers occasionally see them on their lunchbreak. There could be more Koalas in the city gardens...

Koala Woman Says AKF knows very little what has gone before in this electorate except that development started with a sheep station in 1837.  With a large proportion of Preferred Habitat there would have been koalas here at white settlement, but now they're long gone....

Koala Woman Says This electorate lost all its bush to McEwen in the last redistribution and Koalas are certainly extinct in Scullin now.  There have been no sightings reported since 2001.Member for ScullinMr Andrew Giles MP Australian Labor Party...