Labor’s plan to protect the Great Barrier Reef | Press conference from Fitzroy Island
Press conference with Elida Faith, Terri Butler and Meaghan Scanlon, Qld Minister for the Environment.
The Great Barrier Reef is under immediate threat from inaction on climate change and the neglect of Scott Morrison. The next generation deserves to enjoy the Reef as generations before them did, but right now 90 percent of it has been bleached by warming ocean temperatures.
The Morrison Government has failed to act to save native species and neglected the Great Barrier Reef, leaving it once again at risk of being listed by the World Heritage Committee as “in danger”.
An Albanese Labor Government will not engage in political games and instead will work in partnership with the Queensland State Government, experts, First Nations communities, businesses and landholders to protect the 64,000 jobs that rely on the Reef.
We will deliver an additional $194.5 million in reef protection programs over the forward estimates, on top of existing programs. This will bring total investment by 2030 to almost $1.2 billion.
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