Great Barrier Reef: former board member describes $444m grant as ‘unthinkable’

The environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, would not say whose idea it was to award a $444m government grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, on the same day a former member of the foundation’s board described the allocation as “unthinkable”.

Michael Myer, a former board member of the Great Barrier
Reef Foundation, says he has concerns about the
government’s $44m grant.

Michael Myer, of the Myer family, was a member of the reef foundation’s board from 2001 to 2004 until he became concerned at what he called the growing “corporatist” direction of the organisation.

Myer, a conservation activist who endorsed Richard Di Natale before the last federal election, said he had deep concerns the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and Frydenberg, had offered such a large sum of money to “an organisation that is really not set up to manage that kind of money”.

Read the story by Lisa Cox from The Guardian - “Great Barrier Reef: former board member describes $444m grant as ‘unthinkable’.”