Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

This is potentially the seventh mass coral bleaching since 1998, which was the first mass coral bleaching ever recorded. It's the fifth in eight years. Ocean temperatures right around the world, year on year, continue to set new records. Minister, does your government accept that the burning of fossil fuels—and climate change—is causing these marine heatwaves and coral bleaching, and that it is the single biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef?