Heard on the News that run-off onto the GBR is attracting the "experts" again in blaming the old farmers.. Well, since the land is being cleared for all sorts of reasons, the soil is no longer able to absorb rain water & so, water does what water does best, run off ?
Now, farms are being plowed, planted, grazed on etc which leaves grass & other roots to absorb rain water, limiting run-off.
Supermarkets, Football stadiums, schools, parking lots & roads etc seal the surface & so, rainwater can no longer be absorbed & naturally enough, all water falling on such man-made infrastructure well, runs off into the sea which in turn is being polluted more.
nb. there's no science involved only a little logic which goes without saying to anyone with half-an ounce of common sense.

We need to collect such run-off & divert it beyond the GDR as much as possible. This will not only help for a healthier GBR but also will recharge the aquifer of inland Australia.
Run-off can be collected in high-end real estate canal developments & recreational lakes & windmills & solar pumps can push it west over the GDR via a Bradfield-type scheme that'll literally pay for iself & create employment & enhance the natural environment.
It can be done & if the "experts" can be kept away, it will be an all-round winner for all.

What else would you expect, it's coming up to grant time, & James Cook require a lot of money to pay their legal bill incurred trying to defend their last lot of lies about the death of the reef.

Hopefully the grants commission have heard about their lying, & will be a little less generous.

I'm waiting what they dream up next that is actually destroying the reef. First it was farmers, then GW & now back to the farmers.
What they don't won't anyone to know is how much polluted run-off from the roofs & carparks of their Universities cause.

Dear individual,

Poor old chap, you seem to have gotten yourself in such a flap old boy. There, there. Perhaps to calm your nerves we all accept that the university student are dumping tonnes of fertiliser on their rooftops and into their carparks in order that it flow out on to the GBR.

There, are you happy now old salt?

Steele Redux,
I'm happy for you that you find pollution so hilarious.

Doing something for the environment doesn't seem to be a sexy enough topic judging by this thread's responses.