Australia’s foremost coral reef scientist Professor Terry Hughes says government plans to restore the Great Barrier Reef are doomed to failure because they’re too small and expensive, while the rate of catastrophic bleaching events are already recurring faster than corals can recover. A recent Australian Academy of Sciences report said that if the world warmed by 2 degrees Celsius just one per cent of corals would survive. The earth has already warmed by 1.1 degrees and medium-range estimates forecast 1.5 degrees of warming by 2045 to 2050.
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The Australian government has committed NZ$108 million for reef restoration projects which include cooling the water, sun shields and ‘coral gardening’.
Maritime museum is sinking because of Labor, opposition MPs say
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LNP and Greens MPs say the imminent closure of the Queensland Maritime Museum is “an absolute tragedy” and the blame for the loss of “an iconic institution” would be on the state government.
The museum opened to the public again at the weekend and offered five tour sessions on both days – despite the fact the money from the tickets would be nowhere near enough to save the museum.
The Penguin at the Queensland Maritime Museum. It served as a pearl lugger from the early 1900s until World War II when it was requisitioned as a cargo boat for the military. It then returned to pearling service after the war until 1981.
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The Queensland Maritime Museum will reopen this weekend, but even if it sells all available tickets, it will be nowhere near enough to save a piece of the state s history from going under.
Ella s Pink Lady - Jessica Watson s boat from her solo round the world journey. It sits at Queensland Maritime Museum.
Museum chief executive Emma Di Muzio said the uptake in tickets for this weekend s reopening was nowhere near the ticket sales from the failed reopening earlier this month.
Even if the museum sold the estimated $18,000 worth of tickets available for tours this weekend, it would not be anywhere near enough to keep the museum and its historical collection afloat.
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Ella s Pink Lady, the yacht Jessica Watson sailed around the world as a teenager, is now worth a fraction of the price paid by the State and Federal Governments. Sources told
The Sunday Mail, the yacht, which cost $300,000 in 2011 and was entrusted to the Queensland Maritime Museum, had mould in the cabin and was leaking. It has been moved from an undercover shed into the open and a replica cabin built by volunteers has been mothballed. It s the latest in a series of bad news for the QMM, which is facing permanent closure after a $100,000 cyber attack, a workplace bullying compensation payout, closure during COVID and the resignation of CEO Emma Di Muzio, who is not accused of any wrongdoing.