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Lucky us, The UN deigns to not list the Great Barrier Reef as ‘in danger’ (yet again)

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By Jo Nova

Who Needs World Heritage Listing Anyway?

The best managed and largest reef system in the world just avoided being listed as “in danger” yet again. Despite the reef having near record levels of coral cover for the last four years, UNESCO tut-tutted and gave Australia a conditional pass, telling us we must do a water report in 18 months and conservation report in December 2028. Dance monkey, dance.

Not only that, but the unaudited and unelected foreign committee tells the Australian government that we need to stop the destruction of Queensland’s forest and bushland too, because that’s making the whole planet warmer. So no more industrial wind parks in the wilderness then? Alas — The UN doesn’t care about that destruction, but they do say — like a true Nanny, that they will continue to “watch with a magnifying glass.” Which means exactly nothing. Other coral reefs in the world are being “blast fished” with home made bombs, but their governments didn’t make the mistake of begging for listing as a World Heritage Site, so they can blast away. The magnifying glass doesn’t see the exploding fish.

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July 8th, 2026 | Tags: , , , | Category: Big-Government, Global Warming | Print This Post Print This Post | | Comments (36)

Labor Party sells out Australia, panders to the UN, to avoid a naughty reef sticker

By Jo Nova

What looks, acts, and smells like an unelected World Government telling us what to do?

The Australian government bragged about getting a six month free-pass from the global UNESCO naughty corner but in reality they were craven patsies to an absurd unaudited, unaccountable foreign committee.

The UN was threatening, as it always does, to lumber The Great Barrier Reef with an “In-Danger” sticker, despite the coral on the largest reef in the world being healthier than it’s ever been since estimates began in 1986.

To avoid the dreaded sticker of reef sin, apparently Labor saved the day by putting in a 43% emissions cut which will kill eagles and bats with wind turbines, plaster the wilderness with high voltage towers, infect the alpine lakes with feral pests and threaten whales with off shore wind plants. (That’s just for starters).

The price to appease the UN apparently includes spending another $1.2 billion to “protect the reef” (which will expand the bureaucrat class) and twisting the thumb-screws of regulation on fishermen and farmers (thus punishing the workers). The UN gave the Australian government a pat on the back for canceling the Urannah and Hell’s Gate dams. Since when […]

August 4th, 2023 | Tags: , , , | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post Print This Post | |