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"Tiny" Great Barrier Reef Foundation Awarded $443 Million Australian Govt. Grant, Inquiry Ensues

posted by chromas on Wednesday August 01 2018, @09:47PM   
from the corral-coral-cachet-cash,-eh? dept.

takyon writes:

PM personally approved $443m fund for tiny Barrier Reef foundation

Malcolm Turnbull was at the meeting where $443.8m in funding was offered to a small not-for-profit foundation without a competitive tender process or any application for the money, an inquiry has heard.

Anna Marsden, the managing director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, told a Senate inquiry on Monday the organisation was offered the funding at a meeting in Sydney in April between Turnbull, environment and energy minister Josh Frydenberg, the foundation's chair John Schubert and environment and energy department secretary Finn Pratt.

The inquiry is examining the process by which the foundation, which had just six full-time staff at the time, was awarded the funds and whether it has the capacity to deliver work required under the government's reef 2050 plan.

Also at The Sydney Morning Herald.

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• Lesson: Apply sufficient political correctness Lesson: Apply sufficient political correctness (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @11:14PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @11:14PM (#715959)

  "The Great Barrier Reef Foundation says its remit does not include tackling climate change."

  Were it be saying the opposite, would this same grant be praised instead?

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• Re:Lesson: Apply sufficient political correctness (Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday August 01 2018, @11:49PM

  by c0lo (156) on Wednesday August 01 2018, @11:49PM (#715976) Journal

  'tis not the Barrier Reef about, neither climate change.
  Guardian FA:

  The inquiry heard the foundation’s chairman’s panel, a corporate membership group made up of chief executives and directors of companies including Commonwealth Bank, BHP, Qantas, Shell and Peabody Energy, has 55 members, each of whom pay $20,000 a year for membership.

  Smells like a 'good boys' club, money set aside for PR campaigns, next year being an electoral one Downunder and all that.

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