Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

The decision to provide the grant to the foundation followed a thorough policy development process, including cabinet consideration. It was part of our considered response to the widespread coral bleaching on the reef over 2016 and 2017. The Great Barrier Reef Foundation is an organisation that had been given the tick of approval previously by the then Labor minister for the environment, Tony Burke, and, as I've indicated, Senator Keneally voted in favour of the grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation on this occasion.