RHIANNON ELSTON:
For more on this, Shadow Environment Minister Angie Bell joins me live. Minister, good morning to you, or Shadow Minister, I should say. As we have heard, the federal government has pledged $14 million to help South Australians affected by the algae crisis. What’s your response to this?
ANGIE BELL:
Well, Rhiannon, the government has been caught out, flat-footed on this. They have been too slow to respond to the people of South Australia and the algal bloom that’s affecting our Great Southern Reef.
It is so close to our marine parks down there in South Australia, and the eminent scientists down in South Australia have been the government for 18 months for funding to monitor the algal bloom and they have been denied across two Albanese governments. It’s just not good enough.