Series: The Great Barrier Reef Cover-Up — Part 6: Coal or Coral

Part 6 of The Great Barrier Reef Cover-Up asks the final question: can Australia claim to protect the Reef while continuing to approve and export the fuels driving ocean warming? This finale connects the series' earlier threads — funding, lobbying, science, bleaching, and UNESCO diplomacy — to the deeper contradiction in Australian climate policy: reef protection on one side, fossil fuel expansion on the other.