Threatened Ecological Communities

In a Members Statement on 10th September 2025, Amanda raised alarm over the state of Western Australia’s threatened ecological communities (TECs) — the living networks of plants, animals, fungi and microbes that sustain life itself.

Despite legal protections, the Auditor General’s report revealed that 72% of WA’s listed TECs are being neglected, with another 390 priority communities awaiting assessment. At current staffing levels, it would take more than a century to properly evaluate them.

Amanda called out this “collapse in slow motion”, and criticised the WA Government for failing to direct its $2.4 billion budget surplus toward conservation. Amanda urged urgent investment, bold leadership, and recognition that protecting TECs is not an afterthought but a core responsibility — because these ecosystems rarely recover once damaged.