It is, and we must address it, just as we must address the threat posed by all invasive species that stifle threatened local native species - both introduced ones like cats, rats, foxes, rabbits, pigs, mynah birds (I've given up hoping cattle and sheep farming will ever be addressed, and I've had the Man From Snowy River quoted at me often enough by misty eyed horse lovers to know the wild brumbies must continue to run free and destroy the mountain
country for everything else before dying a horrible, slow death from starvation
in the
cold, Winter snow) and native ones like noisy
miners and eastern rosellas.