June Environment Minister Steven Miles and Great Barrier Reef

Great Barrier Reef: His comments follow a warning in June by Environment Minister Steven Miles who said owners of dilapidated resorts on the Great Barrier Reef could have their leases cancelled if the properties were not spruced up, according to Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Topics:state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, qld First posted September 16, 2015 10:50:13 More stories from Queensland noindex Mr Pitt told a business function in Brisbane this morning that a lower Australian dollar made the resorts a good investment. "We want to see anyone who will actually look at them, refresh them, rebrand them," he said. "I think it well-canvassed that while people are still providing some of the best service in the world, some of the architecture on those things is slightly out of date. "That to me is a great opportunity to really help kick along the tourism story in Queensland." Mr Pitt said there was a lot of interest overseas, reminiscent of the 1980s when Japanese investors in particular were involved in local tourism destinations. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.