Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

The Great Barrier Reef is a crucial part of our ecology, of our environment and of our tourism industry and, indeed, has been central to commitments that we have made to the world about the management that we apply to the Great Barrier Reef. The support for the Great Barrier Reef Foundation is absolutely about making sure that we get investments ongoing over a period of time across the reef, supporting a range of different measures that will support the health, wellbeing and resilience of the reef through that time. We are already seeing now that funding is being applied in practical ways to support the reef, one of our great and appropriate assets.