The unassuming marsupial has been dragged into a fiery row that threatened to tear the New South Wales government apart

Some are terming it koala-kazi or the koala ultimatum.

A row over protections for the endangered and much-loved koala this week has seen the conservative Coalition government in New South Wales go to the brink of collapse in one of the more bizarre acts of political self-harm in the state’s history.

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