Sugarcane farmers label scientific consensus on reef 'unsubstantiated scaremongering'

Growers hosting lectures by academic who says Great Barrier Reef is ‘in great order’

Queensland sugarcane farmers – among the biggest polluters of the Great Barrier Reef catchment – have labelled the scientific consensus about the natural wonder as “unsubstantiated scaremongering”.

Their peak organisation, Canegrowers, says it is attempting to bring “balance” to scientific debate about the reef by hosting and promoting two lectures next month by the controversial academic Peter Ridd.

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