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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Lisa Cox and Australian Associated Press

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

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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