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$500 million for the Great Barrier Reef is welcome, but we need a sea change in tactics too

  • Written by Jon Brodie, Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
$500 million for the Great Barrier Reef is welcome, but we need a sea change in tactics tooThe new funding is focused on measures that are already in the foreground.Robert Linsdell/Flickr, CC BY

The federal government’s announcement of more than A$500 million in funding for the Great Barrier Reef is good news. It appears to show a significant commitment to the reef’s preservation – something that has been lacking in...