Might be a good time to revisit the Coalition’s last Barrier Reef funding idea:
In April 2018, the Coalition govt announced $444 million for the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, an org with just six full-time staff. There had been no tender process and they had no plans for it.
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The rationale was that the GBR foundation would use its industry connections (it is supported by companies including BHP, Lendlease and Qantas, and was connected to mining and energy companies such as Rio Tinto, Shell and Peabody Energy) to leverage more funds.
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The foundation aimed to attract a further $357 million in funding from other sources. By 2021 it had raised only in-kind donations - and less than $1 million in cash funds. It was also spending millions, around a third of its outlays, on administration and fundraising.
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@ExhaustedIsaac
@OmarjSakr
It was initially borne of the absurd, patronising idea that business/industry types would be better at running a conservation effort than, say, the expert organisations run by govt and scientists that had been doing real work for years. As expected, didn't turn out that way...
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@NickFeik
also worth remembering how an org with an ex-Exxon CEO proposed to 'make the reef resilient' : (from my book). With magic robots, mists and genetic engineering. Don't think any of that amounted to much.
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@NickFeik
At least we got… Facebook quizzes…
Q: What’s the best way to spend $444 Million of federal government money to stop global warming and save the reef?
A: ...Facebook quizzes?
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Word of the day is ‘forwaked’ (14th century): weary from watching and waiting for something that never seems to materialise.
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@Grabiec_John
There have been few if any reports from the GBR made public since 2018. The only accountability that this LNP government gives us is secrecy and spin. $440 million wasted. Someone please tell me if and how I am wrong.
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@NickFeik
Really $1Billion is not very much for all things they say they want to do with it considering how big the reef is. They have just thrown out a big number to sound like they are doing something.
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@NickFeik
This is the way… of the LNP claiming it supports enviro or border “protection”. Whether it’s water systems, the GBR, bashing asylum seekers (remember Paladin in an office based on Kangaroo Island?) or climate change, it’s about funding mates by lining pockets to do nothing.
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