Club chief says ‘anodyne acknowledgments’ can be ‘overworked’. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The federal environment minister, Murray Watt , will use a speech later today to lay out Australia’s credentials in protecting the Great Barrier Reef before a meeting of the world heritage committee in July. Global heating remains the reef’s most significant threat, Watt will say, along with impacts from severe weather events, fishing, outbreaks of coral-eating starfish and poor water quality related to clearing of vegetation on land. At an event hosted by the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Watt will say: Faced with these challenges, humankind must be at its best. That’s why we are taking up the fight to protect the Great Barrier Reef for futu