Just days before the Great Barrier Reef Foundation received a controversial $443.4 million funding package, the organisation was in talks with then environment minister Josh Frydenberg's office for a grant of just $5 million.
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| Josh Frydenberg, front,left, and Julie Bishop flank two students from a Reef Guardian school at the announcement in Cairns in April to grant the Great Barrier Reef Foundation almost half a billion dollars. |
Documents obtained by Fairfax Media under freedom of information also show in the weeks after Mr Frydenberg met the foundation chairman John Schubert with the then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull on April 9 to tell him the grant had leapt almost 100-fold, officials were still scrambling to learn what the non-profit group did.
Read the story from The Age - “How reef funds went from $5 million to nearly $500 million in five days.”
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