Sue Morrish Australian Native Plants Society Biennial Conference 2026

Sue Morrish

Sue Morrish is an active volunteer and site co-ordinator with Alice Springs Landcare. Since 2009 she and Rosalie Breen (along with many other volunteers) have removed buffel from the Spencer Valley area east of Spencer Hill, on the Eastside of Alice Springs. In the process she has learnt (and sometimes immediately forgotten) a lot of plant names, and helped Rosalie to compile a species list of plants for that area, with support from the NT Herbarium, most recently with Senior Botanist David Albrecht. It has doubled from the first drafts around 100 species to the current draft which has over 230. Her day jobs in Alice Springs have ranged from working as a linguist at the Institute for Aboriginal Development in the 1990’s to her current role as a midwife in an Aboriginal women’s clinic, and she has never studied botany. But her Chem Cert is current!! APS Talk blurb – Sue Morrish will attempt to showcase 17 years of active buffel management in a bush regeneration site on the edge of Alice Springs. The talk will include lots of before and after photos, some discussion of the challenges and rewards of the work, and finally focus on some of the more interesting plant species that have cropped up within the Spencer Valley Landcare site.