”No new coal! Save the Great Barrier Reef!" was the main theme of the rally held outside Queensland parliament on World Heritage Day, April 18. Six Degrees and Greenpeace Brisbane called the rally, which attracted about 50 people.
The rally came after the April 12 announcement by deputy premier Jeff Seeney that Gladstone harbour, which is facing environmental destruction due to coal industry development, might be removed from World Heritage listing.
Queensland Conservation Council executive director Toby Hutcheon told the April 14 Courier Mail that Seeney's statement suggested Reef was "not going to be looked after”.
Hutcheon said: “If you start putting out signals that we can't look after an area, so we're going to remove it, it sends out signals that Queensland is not looking after that heritage area.”
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