Secret papers detail Great Barrier Reef Foundation's costly PR strategy

A $100 million Great Barrier Reef restoration grant would be tripled by the charity hand-picked by the federal government to administer the money and spent quickly to notch up “early wins” and boost the organisation’s public image, documents show.

The foundation sought "early wins" on its investments
 to avoid the perception it was "sitting on the money".

The revelations, which involve sensitive cabinet documents, also show how officials canvassed ways to stage-manage the government’s highly controversial funding announcement, including the possibility of recruiting children and Indigenous people to improve the “optics” of the policy.

Read the story from The Age by Nicole Hasham - “Secret papers detail Great Barrier Reef Foundation's costly PR strategy.”