Politicised science on the Great Barrier Reef? It's been that way for more than a century
- Written by Rohan James Lloyd, Adjunct Lecturer, James Cook University
Successive governments have seen the Great Barrier Reef not just as a scientific wonder, but as a channel to further economic development.Superjoseph/Shutterstock.com
The controversy surrounding the A$444 million given to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation by the federal government shows how politicised science has become on the Great Barrier Reef.
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