Great Barrier Reef: Greens call for new tax on mining to pay for damage

Greens leader Richard di Natale says Australia needs to plan for a future without coal, not a future without the reef

The Greens want coal companies to start paying "for the damage they are doing" to the Great Barrier Reef, announcing a new plan to tax miners heavily and use the money to revitalise the reef and to invest in clean energy projects and jobs.

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