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

My question is to Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Senator Birmingham. A recent paper in top scientific journal Nature showed that, after three severe mass coral bleachings in just five years, the coral cover of the Great Barrier Reef is now at 50 per cent. Half the corals are dead. Dead coral does not grow back. It's climate change that is the primary cause of that loss. How much of the Great Barrier Reef has to die before this government will adopt a climate policy that isn't written by the fossil fuel industry?