Exclusive: Briefing note prepared for a meeting with government-funded scientists suggested they ‘don’t publish the paper’
The federal government tried to stop the publication of an academic paper that found it needed to drastically increase its spending on threatened Australian wildlife.
However you feel about the government of the day <“Hush Gary”> or how relatively important you think the environment is, 10% of Trump’s USA spending is #^!$@*# disgusting.
The scientists had drafted a paper in 2019 that compared Australian threatened species funding with that in the US. They found Australia was spending just a tenth of what the US dedicated to trying to recover endangered wildlife.