MEDIA RELEASE
Thursday 16 October 2025
Teachers for Climate Australia with the Save Scott Reef Alliance are giving 10 Australian schools the chance to win a FREE license to screen the award-winning documentary Corals’ Last Stand. A guest speaker can also be arranged to visit successful schools.
Schools can take part in the competition through the following link before 1 November 2025. Successful schools will be notified by 8 November 2025.
Corals’ Last Stand by award-winning director Jane Hammond follows a team of prominent Australians including author Tim Winton and musician John Butler on a visit to Scott Reef to bring worldwide attention to the impact that drilling a huge reservoir of gas known as the Browse Basin will have on this special place.
Geoff Holt, Teachers for Climate Australia Co-founder, Global Schools Advocate and HaSS teacher said this was a great opportunity to teach children about our incredible marine biodiversity and the threats to our coral reefs from industrial development.
“We’re really excited to see the issues in the film linked to the school curriculum,” Mr Holt said.
“If approved, the Browse proposal will have profound impacts on the lives of young people. It’s important they are aware of the decision being made right now and are able to meaningfully engage in the political process.”
The documentary was filmed in association with the Conservation Council of WA, Environs Kimberley, Australian Marine Conservation Society, Greenpeace Australia Pacific and the Australian Conservation Foundation.
It has been entered for competition in international film festivals across the world, winning Best Short Documentary at the Paris Film Awards, Best Director Documentary at the Las Angeles Short Film Awards, and Best Oceania Film at the Cannes World Film Festival.
Tim Winton has described Scott Reef as the jewel in the crown of WA’s Kimberley coast and one of the last wild places left in this country.
“The world’s coral reefs are in desperate trouble, and Scott Reef is like a sentinel,” Winton said. “If we lose Scott Reef, it’ll signal the end for all coral reefs. And when they cook and die, we’ll be left with a poorer, harsher world.
“The idea that your kids, and their kids and their kids’ kids, might never have the chance to see a place like Scott Reef - it disturbs me, it makes me angry. The injustice of it bewilders me.”
A Schools Screening Package containing useful information, promotional and planning tools, and teaching resources is available to help teachers and students organise a screening:
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As part of a student-organised (fundraising) event over lunch, or
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In curriculum, for example Arts, English, HaSS, Languages, Science or Technologies, followed by a Q&A session or group discussion.
For more information, please contact Greta Carroll at the Conservation Council of WA at [email protected], or visit https://www.coralslaststand.com.au or www.teachersforclimate.com.au.
Contact details:
John Cooke - [email protected] - 0433 679 780
