CANBERRA – Sir David Attenborough has reached 100 years of age, an extraordinary innings that has produced a near-unbroken record of ecological observation stretching all the way back to the 1920s.
Indigenous knowledge holders across the continent paused their own ecological transmission (currently in approximately its 65,000th consecutive year) to acknowledge the milestone.
“Big yarn, deadly bloke, love his work,” said one senior Elder, who asked not to be named because he is busy. “We’ve been narrating Country in roughly the same lineage for two and a half thousand generations, but a hundred years on the BBC is also good. Cake for everyone.”
A spokesperson for the federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water confirmed it had cited Attenborough in 17 strategic documents this year. Indigenous Ranger groups, who maintain biodiversity outcomes per dollar at a rate that consistently outperforms every other land-management cohort in the country, have been cited in three.
The ABC has commissioned a four-part documentary on the centenarian. NITV has commissioned a six-week consultation on whether to commission anything.
Sources confirm Attenborough’s secret is “doing the same job, well, for a long time.” Mob, watching from the back of the room, nodded slowly.
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