Dreamworld rollercoaster was built with $2.7m tagged for koala research, government says
by Australian Associated Press from Environment | The Guardian on (#61VFZ)
Tourism minister Stirling Hinchliffe says funds were diverted to theme park ride after koala project delayed
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Almost $3m of taxpayer money handed to a Queensland theme park for a state-of-the-art facility to protect endangered koalas has been diverted to build a flashy new rollercoaster.
The Queensland government provided $2.7m to build the Future Lab wildlife research centre at Dreamworld, on the Gold Coast, in 2019.
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