Jennifer Marohasy

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Senate Inquiry into Water Quality at the Great Barrier Reef: My Submission

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Submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport

Identification of leading practices in ensuring evidence-based regulation of farm practices that impact water quality outcomes in the Great Barrier Reef

THIS submission relates to the first term of reference for the Senate inquiry: The existing evidence-base on the impact of farm water runoff on the health of the Great Barrier Reef and catchment areas.

STOP.

I have been advised that my submission has been received. Further I have been advised that:

A submission to a committee becomes a committee document, and it is for the committee to decide whether to receive it as evidence and whether to publish it. This means that you should not provide your submission to others or make it public prior to the committee’s decision to do so. While submissions to the committee are protected by parliamentary privilege, their unauthorised release or distribution is not.

So, I have removed the information that I had posted here concerning my submission and its recommendation.

Me, underwater diving HMAS Brisbane earlier today, on 8th November 2019. I took the photograph of the two ‘Nemos’ on the front deck of the wreck a few minutes after this photograph was taken, the two ‘Nemos’ feature at the top of this blog post.

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  1. Seems to me that there are none so blind as those who will not see. You should take some of these “experts” with you Jennifer.

  2. Thank you for this report. I really deplore the deception that so many activist “scientists” are foisting upon us.

  3. Thank you for your unfailing search for the truth, and tireless efforts to help those that should, or least ought, know the real facts of the matter. This is sorely missing in many government quarters and the MSM where the outright lies and careless innuendos from not stating all that is known has lead to an absurd waste of resources that could best be used in accommodating the here and now. The nonsense portrayed by a few that has created untold hysteria amongst the uninformed of a pending catastrophe that has little, or no, scientific credibility to support an intelligent debate on what’s real, possible or, simply, just plain imaginary.

    Go-girl; I’ll see you and Peter Ridd at The Weston next Wednesday.

  4. It seems that the Senate Inquiry should be halted immediately, and all water quality data be collected, checked, and made available for detailed analysis.

    To conduct an Inquiry into ….water quality……when the ……….water quality……..data is not fully available is ludicrous. And it sounds like they knew it before they launched the Inquiry.

    Your taxes at work.

  5. Thank you Jennifer for yet another intelligent and fact-based report of the actual state of the reef and the water quality debate (albeit one-sided at the moment. If we list anymore to the left we will surely sink !).
    I enjoy reading your articles, they at least give me some hope that one day we will not have to keep fighting against scaremongering, adulterated data and reports and just blatant lies, to be honest.
    Hopefully someone is listening to you. We need so many more people like yourself to stand and present data and findings based on real facts in situations such as this and present the findings without bias. Probably will never happen,, but I am a hopeless optimist.
    David T, I love that quote. tx. Its never been more relevant than now and is sadly true of our Politicians (state and Federal), Bureaucrats and so called scientists (shame, shame, shame on you all). All are unfortunately just lemmings. and we know what happens to lemmings when the piper is calling the tune.
    all the best Jennifer ! never give up.

  6. Thank you for the information, Jennifer. Your hard work is appreciated.

    As usual:

    >” … it is for the committee to decide whether to receive it as evidence and whether to publish it. This means that you should not provide your submission to others or make it public prior to the committee’s decision to do so.”

    So irritating, this refusal to allow hard information into the public domain. It permeates and corrupts our entire public discourse.

    Must be extremely frustrating for you to …

  7. Did anybody download the submission before the “clamp down” on this information?
    If so, perhaps an anonymous leak to fB or other site could happen.

  9. Under what authority does the committee make such a ruling, I wonder? I doubt your article would come under the rubric of threatening our country’s security, for example, Jennifer.

  10. Publish it now! Add their ridiculous bluff . That will expose the extremes they go to to hide facts. Readers will know then what you submitted and, if they still deny acceptance it will confirm their lack of credibility and how they avoid rational evidence

  11. So much for keeping the public informed, what a racket. Go for it Jennifer we need people who are prepared to stand up and fight for us.

    I spent a couple of months on the Great Barrier Reef a few years back and as I had not seen coral bleaching I spent a lot of time looking all round the Whitsundays and out as far as Bait Reef could not find any bleaching anywhere. If one is to believe these frauds it is everywhere. Shut down their grants and make them re-apply, then weed them out on what they have produced so far, I say.

  12. Whenever you hear people throwing around the label “evidence-base”, you know they are charlatans. They will only use the evidence that they like, and will burry the evidence that they don’t like. The term is used to set themselves us as “The bearer of Truth”, immune to questioning.

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