Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

The government accepts the science of climate change and the troubling outlook for coral reefs globally, including the Great Barrier Reef. Australia is one of a handful of nations to have comprehensively beaten our Kyoto era targets. The latest mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef underlines the importance of our concerted global action under the Paris Agreement and the government's $1.9 billion investment guided by the Reef 2050 plan to protect this World Heritage property.