i thought this was going to be a lot harder fight because this was the world's oil industry wanting to get a toehold and that was a very frightening prospect. we needed people all over the world say to the australian government, please don't do that. we want to come and visit australia and visit the barrier reef, so please don't drill the reef. people responded, they really did. our politicians got a deluge of international attention and i think they started to realise this really was going to impact australian tourism. having that national legislation passed really was the decisive moment in 1975 stopping the entire barrier reef region was proclaimed a marine park. no oil drilling, no mining, and that was the day we thought oh, we've actually succeeded. how