SA algae crisis ‘incredibly disturbing’ but federal government won’t declare natural disaster, Watt says

Greens' Sarah Hanson-Young warns $14m in federal funding nowhere near' enough to support South Australian communities reeling from toxic algal bloom covering coast

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The Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says $14m in federal funding is nowhere near what will be needed" to support South Australian communities dealing with the state's algal bloom catastrophe.

The environment minister, Murray Watt, announced the federal assistance package on Monday while visiting South Australia to see the impacts of a toxic algal bloom that for months has caused mass deaths of marine life across the state's beaches.

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