Jane Hume (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy) | Hansard source

I am happy to mention mass bleaching—now it is mentioned—because mass bleaching is one issue that affects the Great Barrier Reef. Other issues that affect the Great Barrier Reef are changes in climate. Other issues that affect the Great Barrier Reef are crown-of-thorns starfish. This additional $1 billion investment, that takes the Commonwealth's funding up to $3 billion, is just one of the ways that we can address all of the issues that are facing the Great Barrier Reef, for which we are known as the gold standard in response to large-scale marine protected area management according to UNESCO itself. There are four ways that— (Time expired)