REEFER MADNESS

The Great Barrier Reef was earlier this year declared dead by some environmentalist, which must have delighted the reef’s tourism employees.

A turtle inspects the devastation

The Great Barrier Reef was earlier this year declared dead by some environmentalist, which must have delighted the reef’s tourism employees.

Pauline Hanson this week dropped in on the reef for a swim, and found the thing to be thriving. According to Greens logic, this somehow threatens reef-associated jobs:

Pauline Hanson's bogus claim the Great Barrier Reef is healthy is placing at risk up to 70,000 jobs, which will be affected by damage cause by climate change, the Greens say.

The One Nation leader has been accused of selecting a part of the reef unaffected by coral bleaching when she went snorkelling off Great Keppel Island on Friday and later had a crack at environmental groups for telling "untruths" about the reef's health.

But Greens Senator Larissa Waters has accused One Nation of misrepresenting the health of reef and the future of the tens-of-thousands of jobs which depended upon it.

"Reef scientists are unanimous in saying the biggest threat to the reef is global warming, which caused the recent devastating coral bleaching," she said on Saturday.

"One Nation are insulting reef tourism workers by visiting an unaffected area of the reef and claiming everything is fine – because they don't even accept that global warming is real."

The Greens are out of their minds. But you knew that.