User:Samthekoala

Sam the koala (died 6 August 2009) was a four year old female strzelecki koala found on Sampson Road, Mirboo North, Victoria, Australia. SAM was apparently named after the road she was found on, Samson Road.

''Why has Sam's story connected with people in a way that photographs of mourning families and burnt-out townships did not? Images from places such as Kinglake and St Andrews were gut-wrenching and deeply moving; perhaps, as one Melbourne psychiatrist who declines to be named, suggests, "Sam was more easily accessible than the enormity of dealing with all that had happened in terms of human loss".''