Corals have survived for millions of years. They laughed off ice ages and warm eras, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and dramatic changes in sea levels

The Bottomless Black Hole in the Great Barrier Reef

By Viv Forbes —— Bio and Archives May 15, 2022

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The Bottomless Black Hole in the Great Barrier Reef

In 2012 Malcolm Turnbull snitched $440 million from taxpayers to "save the Great Barrier Reef". In 2022 Scott Morrison promised to pour another billion into the Barrier Reef Black Hole. Then last week Anthony Albanese promised another $220 million "to save the reef from yellow-crazy ants". A million here, a billion there and pretty soon you are talking real money. Clearly The Great Barrier Reef has a bottomless black hole that demands regular sacrifice of tax payers. Or maybe the Crown of Thorns Starfish is now on a diet of dollars?
Corals have survived for millions of years. They laughed off ice ages and warm eras, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and dramatic changes in sea levels. They will outlast this green invasion with its deluge of dollars.

Viv Forbes -- Bio and Archives | Comments

Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, has spent his life working in exploration, mining, farming, infrastructure, financial analysis and political commentary. He has worked for government departments, private companies and now works as a private contractor and farmer.

Viv has also been a guest writer for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Queensland and mining newspapers. He was awarded the “Australian Adam Smith Award for Services to the Free Society” in 1988, and has written widely on political, technical and economic subjects.