This is the government scraping the barrel to find any positive spin it can regarding the reef. Now there's more global attention, it might be worth reminding/informing others of fairly recent government involvement regarding the Great Barrier Reef: [1]
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation board has strong ties to fossil fuel interests, it has six full-time staff, it is set up as a "charity" and its main function appears to be to reallocate money to other organisations. Its operations are not subject to environmental regulations under any state or Commonwealth legislation and if the Foundation contributes to a major environmental disaster, it can be wound up and its members (directors) are each liable to a maximum of $100 towards any outstanding obligations.
The unsolicited allocation of $444 million to this shop-front venture appears to have been made without discussion, legitimate tender or evaluation.
I've become profoundly cynical about big non-profit organizations. Not all non-profits are bad, of course, but it really seems like the bigger the organization the more likely it is that the organization operates like a front.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments to HN? We ban that sort of account because we're trying for something other than internet default here.
The Australian government is a nauseating lobbyist front for fossil fuels and oligarchs like Rupert Murdoch and Gerry Harvey
It is my sincerest hope that by some miracle we finally turf them out. The way they've swung from disaster to disaster hopefully left enough of an imprint of how much of a despicable failure they really are
[+] [-] partomniscient|4 years ago|reply
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation board has strong ties to fossil fuel interests, it has six full-time staff, it is set up as a "charity" and its main function appears to be to reallocate money to other organisations. Its operations are not subject to environmental regulations under any state or Commonwealth legislation and if the Foundation contributes to a major environmental disaster, it can be wound up and its members (directors) are each liable to a maximum of $100 towards any outstanding obligations.
The unsolicited allocation of $444 million to this shop-front venture appears to have been made without discussion, legitimate tender or evaluation.
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-03/turnbull-defends-cash...
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If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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It is my sincerest hope that by some miracle we finally turf them out. The way they've swung from disaster to disaster hopefully left enough of an imprint of how much of a despicable failure they really are