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A select group of Cairns tourism operators have been praised for their innovation by the Turnbull government today, after it was revealed that certain businesses up north have begun repositioning their services to focus on the death of marine sea-life.
They will be known as the Great Barrier Reef Ghost Tours, in an effort to savour the 56 million dollars that go through the North Queensland economy each year.
“This, this is what I was talking about when I said the age of innovation” said Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
“If the coral dies, and leaves skeletal remains, why not treat the millions of tourists to a spooky night-time tour of what was once the most beautiful natural organism in the world”
“I mean, it’s definitely not as pretty and iconic as it was when I entered politics, but you’ve gotta work with what you’ve got. Just like their counterparts in mining who have to look for coal and gas closer to the coastline and in turn gamble with the possibility of a run-off into the reef”
This follows the endless reports by countless scientists representing both government agencies, charities and educational institutions, who have found that the Queensland and Federal Government’s insatiable desires to continue to mine, drill and burn coal, oil and gas indefinitely will kill the Great Barrier Reef over coming decades
Recent findings by the Government-endorsed economists find that If all the 33,000 Queenslanders employed by the reef lost their jobs today, the state’s unemployment rate would jump from 6.1 percent to 7.4 percent — the highest rate in 25 years.
This comes after countless scientific reports found evidence of severe damage from the back-to-back coral bleaching incidents in 2016 and 2017.
“I think all of our nation’s tourism operators should at least work towards hosting one ghost tour a week.” said Turnbull.
“It’s a great way of paying homage to the once-great Barrier Reef that is dying for reasons that we can’t identify, let alone resolve, not even by donating 444 million tax-payer dollars a random charity of six people that no one else has heard of”
