Good morning. Calls are growing for Scott Morrison to face consequences for swearing himself in to five extra portfolios – treasury, home affairs, finance, health and resources – when he was prime minister. And there is a remarkable project afoot to bring the Tasmanian tiger back to life through Jurassic Park-style genetic engineering.
Scientists in Australia and the US have launched an ambitious multimillion-dollar project to bring back the thylacine, a marsupial that died out in the 1930s, and reintroduce it to its native Tasmania. A Texas-based biotech company is teaming up with the University of Melbourne, which has sequenced a “complete” blueprint of the extinct animal’s genome. The company says the first joeys could be born within a decade – ahead of its other project, to de-extinct the woolly mammoth.
