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

My question is to the Minister representing Minister for the Environment, Senator Birmingham. Last week the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority released a position statement recognising that climate change is the greatest threat to the Great Barrier Reef. It says:

Only the strongest and fastest possible action on climate change will reduce the risks and limit the impacts of climate change on the Reef.

It also said that 'there is an urgent and critical need to accelerate actions to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions' and that that must happen in parallel with resilience-building actions. Are you going to listen to the pleas from your own agency for genuine, swift action on climate to protect the reef, or are you just going to cut their funding again or give it to some other body to do the job?