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The Saturday Briefing: Killing the Barrier Reef
In 2007 then-environment minister Malcolm Turnbull wrote that climate change was “the greatest long-term threat to the Great Barrier Reef”.
This week, as scientists announced they were unable to keep up with the monitoring of major coral bleaching events, Turnbull travelled to India to meet with the CEO of Adani to discuss the mining giant’s multi-billion dollar Carmichael coal mine in Queensland, inland from the reef.
As Terry Hughes, director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies tells Mike Seccombe, “that’s hardly a meaningful response to the back-to-back bleachings. The coral reef crisis is actually a crisis of governance.”
Plus: Paul Bongiorno on the near $1billion loan to Adani, and Nicholas Gruen on how to turn the Reserve Bank of Australia into a people’s bank.
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