There was a quick reminder this morning that the Chinese Communist Party, ever so worried about our reef, has wrecked reefs in the South China Sea by building military installations on them.

Has anything been heard from China's creature UNESCO about that? Of course not, just like the silence on the CCP's 30% of the world's emissions and rising, while the best managers of reefs in the world - us- have negligible emissions. The "per capita" claim is absolute crap; it's still the total emissions that count, and China is way ahead. China is way ahead in everything threatening.

As was said this morning by government politicians: "We don't take advice from other countries or bureaucratic bodies, and we certainly don't take advice from the biggest emitter in the world. They should have added, 'and the biggest threat our civilisation', also China.

..the Reef that he visited nearly 60 years ago is very different
from today.
Foxy,
I can vouch for that. I first dived the GBR off Cairns in 1973 & remember schools of fish so common on every reef, not now !
The coral are affected by pollution & the fish by over-fishing ! Both are caused by people who believe in individual rights & common responsibility instead of common rights & individual responsibility !
Indisciplined, selfish people who then blame Govt for the outcome !

Blaming China for every ill that besets the nation and the world seems to be the new mantra of the radical right. Australia joining old anachronistic powers like Britain and France and sailing around the South China Sea is nothing but warmongering. The days of a gunboat up the Yangtze, and the thrust of cold, steel to show the yellow devils whose in charge have long gone.

China presents difficult challengers for Australia and the world, but gunboat diplomacy always a fall back position of the conservative right wont work this time.

China presents difficult challengers for Australia and the world,
Not half as much as the Paul1405's of this World !
Stupidity does more harm than ill-will !

I think it was Julie Bishop who said that China
needs to be handled diplomatically but firmly
because they too are conscious of their reputation
world-wide and the Australian Government will act
and protect Australia's interests. I'm sure that
Scott Morrison and his cabinet know what to do.

Regarding our Great Barrier Reef? I'm sure that the
Government is aware of what needs to be done. There's
enough people warning about what will happen if the
problems are ignored and action is not taken.

cont'd ...

There's a culmination of factors affecting the Reef -
from disease, acidification, pollution, over-fishing,
macroalgae, and so on. I believe that James Cook University
has undertaken restoration activities that will proved
the first scientifically robust methodology for the effective
removal of macroalgae from reefs.

Marine debris and plastic pollution we're told has fast
become one of the greatest environmental challenges.

Indonesia according to scientists is a huge contributor
of plastic debris globally, largely driven by the lack
of access to a waste management infrastructure.