Susan Lawrence

And we have, in fact, some of the oldest Gondwanan lineages in our forest, which is partly why they consider the Australian wet tropics the oldest rainforest in the world, because of those old lineages, the abundance of those old plant families.

But we also have Asian plants that have arrived over millennia, but they're predominantly in the lowlands.

So it's kind of our upland mountains which are the remnants of our Gondwanan history.

That it's ancient, that it's been here on this continent for millions of years, but it may not always be here in the future.

Oh, yes.

Well, I think it's going to take more than that.

I think we need to be really aware, just phenomenal for me, that something can last for so long, but now be at such a risk with climate change.

And that just having an understanding of that vulnerability, I think, is important to know.

There's a couple different components to Creighton Mine.

There's an open pit mine that isn't really in use anymore, but there's also the underground mine where we are today.