The Coalition’s pledge of $1 billion over 10 years – with funding taken from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation’s $10 billion special account – to improve water quality and support clean energy projects in the reef catchment region dodges the really big threat to the reef: climate change.
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Undermining the future
11 June 16
Jack Green, McArthur River
10 June 16
Marine commitments are good news for Australia’s ocean life
09 June 16
Australia’s comprehensive national network of marine reserves which was established in 2012 – then suspended by the Abbott Government in 2013 – will be reinstated in full if Labor wins next month’s federal election.
The environment is not merely for state governments
09 June 16
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ACF National Agenda 2016 – Our choice
07 June 16
New approach to environment law needed to stop extinction crisis
07 June 16
Australia needs a new Environment Act that is designed to halt the extinction crisis and an independent authority to implement a strengthened national environment law, the Australian Conservation Foundation said.
Lifelines offered for Australian wildlife
05 June 16
The Greens’ wildlife policy, announced today on World Environment Day, would strengthen and nurture our country’s unique biodiversity, the Australian Conservation Foundation said today in welcoming the plan.
