Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Brandis, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. I refer to reports released yesterday by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies which show that 67 per cent of the corals in the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef have died after the worst coral bleaching episode, earlier this year, that the reef has ever faced. My question is: when will this government accept that coral bleaching en masse is driven by human induced global warming, and when will you stand up for the 70,000 people whose jobs rely on the reef remaining healthy?