This is not a quoll but it is a dasyuromorph. This is a numbat, the faunal symbol of Western Australia.

Today is Western Australia Day today, the former commemoration of when Captain Stirling’s mob showed up at Derbal Yerrigan in 1829 and took the place over from the Wadjak Noongar clan that had lived there for at least 43,000 years prior. Someone rightly thought that was all a bit triumphalistic, so now it’s a celebration of the place we Sandgropers live in, looking to the future, all that sort of thing.

Anyway. Thanks to a few pitiless colonial bastards and the State Government, i get the day off. I’ll probably be staying at home watching cartoons and doing my laundry.