Article 55JGX ‘A mockery’: Great Barrier Reef Foundation raises just $21m of $357m target

‘A mockery’: Great Barrier Reef Foundation raises just $21m of $357m target

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Lisa Cox
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Labor calls for greater transparency into fundraising of foundation, which was awarded $443m by Coalition

The Great Barrier Reef Foundation has raised only $21.7m out of a target of $357m in donations more than two years after it was awarded the largest single environmental grant in Australian history.

It has prompted Labor to call for greater transparency from the foundation about its fundraising, while the Greens have said the figure makes a mockery of the government's logic" for awarding the grant.

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