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Lib-Nat govt to ban dredge spoil dumping on Reef

As it seeks to avert United Nations action over its handling of the Great Barrier Reef Australia’s conservative Liberal-National government has formally issued a ban

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Labor would ban Barrier Reef dredge dumping

Australia’s opposition Labor Party at state and federal level has said it would ban dumping dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

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Hunt under Barrier Reef dumping pressure

The Environment Minister in Australia’s conservative Liberal-National government, Greg Hunt, remains under pressure over just how the spoil dredged to allow the expansion of the

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Qld govt looks at onshore dredge spoil dumping

Under a plan to be considered by Queensland’s conservative Liberal National Party government dredge spoil from the Abbot Point coal port expansion would be dumped

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Alternate plan may save Reef from dredge dump

An alternative plan is emerging that may save Australia’s World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef from having millions of tonnes of dredge spoil dumped on

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Barrier Reef threatened by spoil dump decision

A former government official has said Australian authorities are failing to protect the country’s greatest natural icon, the Great Barrier Reef, by approving the dumping

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WWF: Govts must commit $bn to save Barrier Reef

Global environmental lobby group WWF says the latest science confirms the continued rapid decline of Australia’s World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef and the urgent