Article 3VZ44 No environment officials at Turnbull meeting about $443m reef grant to tiny charity

No environment officials at Turnbull meeting about $443m reef grant to tiny charity

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Lisa Cox
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Revealed: Great Barrier Reef Foundation founders had links to resources industry

No environment department officials were present at a meeting in which the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and the environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, discussed a plan that led to a $443.8m grant to a small Great Barrier Reef charity.

The charity, the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, has also confirmed that its founders were wealthy businessmen and philanthropists with links to the resources industry, and one was a senior public servant in the Bjelke-Petersen government.

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