Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. It is now a matter of record that the Prime Minister offered the Brisbane based, private Great Barrier Reef Foundation almost half a billion dollars of taxpayers' money in a closed-door meeting on 9 April. Prime Minister, why weren't the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the Australian Institute of Marine Science or the CSIRO even invited to tender for the half-a-billion-dollar contract of taxpayer money?

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