Governments announce full details of $102.5m algal bloom summer plan

ABC NEWS (Australia)

While the summer plan provides immediate support for marine-based industries, it also has an eye to the future with a focus on environmental recovery. But for the government, there may be more to the timing than the upcoming warmer months.

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00:00At the end of the summer month, South Australians will head to voting booths around the state.

00:08Many political analysts and polls paint the March election as one that should deliver

00:12a resounding win for South Australian Labor.

00:16But the idea of a summer where SA's iconic beaches and communities continue to be affected

00:21by the algal bloom right before an election is something the Premier would prefer to avoid.

00:27In practice, there's little the government can do to dissipate the bloom, and that's

00:31evidenced in this plan, which focuses on supporting impacted industries and investing in the future.

00:37Much of the critique levelled at the government by the Liberal Party and the Greens has been

00:42about how long it's taken to be delivered.

00:45But the government will be hoping the more than $130 million spent by state and federal

00:50Labor will be enough to show people they're working on the issue, which has been impacting

00:54the state's coastline since it was first detected in March.

00:58Only time will tell if the algal bloom will dissipate and how much this matters to voters.

01:03and now we're waiting for a few minutes.

01:05We'll see you next time.

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