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‘Huge environmental win’: Australia to protect 52% of its oceans, more than any other country
(www.theguardian.com)
"The Biodiversity Council said a “first-pass assessment” had found the Australian government spent about 50 times more subsidising activities that damaged the environment – including clearing and degradation of nature for mining, agriculture, native forest logging and road construction – than on helping biodiversity."
This was a cheap and easy announcement for the feds, with no real work being done. Very little is done to protect continental offshore environments and we will lose the Great Barrier Reef as a result.