Spending Hundreds of Millions to Make a 0.1 Percent Difference to the Great Barrier Reef

Hard-working Aussie fishermen, and the people who depend on them, are about to suffer severe restrictions on their production. And all based on dubious science.

An ecotourism tour of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, on July 13, 2021. Melanie Sun/The Epoch Times

Commentary

Australia’s federal government has thrown the barramundi fishing industry to the sharks as part of the blackmail payout to UNESCO to stop the organisation listing the Great Barrier Reef as “endangered.” However, UNESCO will be back in a few years for another payout—that’s what blackmailers do.