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SEI Magazine Issue The2, 2019Great Barrier Reef Collection ___ SEI magazine Sydney Environment Institute Magazine The Great Barrier Reef Collection 10 Stars in the Sand: Climate Change 20 Saving Turtles and Respecting 25 Great Barrier Reef Stories: & The Great Barrier Reef Culture…It’s Complicated Let’s Talk About Coral Sex Sydney Environment Institute 1 TheFrom Greatthe Magazine Barrier Editor Reef Collection In the edition ___ ___ Since the Sydney Environment Institute was established in 2013, 04 The Return of the Repressed: 19 Public lecture: Coral Bleaching 34 Bleach-hot Reality: The Great The First Reef War and its in the Great Barrier Reef with Barrier Reef of your childhood the Institute has worked to foster a multidisciplinary network of Significance Today screening of ‘Chasing Coral’ is gone, what are you going to researchers, activists and community leaders who are working to Iain McCalman, Ana Vila Concejo, do about it? explore environmental problems faced by the Great Barrier Reef Sydney Environment Institute Geocoastal Research Group Jodie Pall, (GBR), including: loss of place and cultural heritage; biodiversity Sydney Environment Institute 09 Reef and Rainforest: Mission 20 Saving Turtles and Respecting loss; depletion oceanic resources; and declining health of coral Beach Conference & Project Culture… It’s Complicated 37 Film Screening: Global Warming and marine environments. Iain McCalman, Leah Lui-Chivizhe, and the Mass Bleaching of Corals SEI Co-Director University of Sydney Terry Hughes, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies Over the past five years, SEI’s GBR research What follows is a collection of selected 10 Stars in the Sand: Climate 25 Great Barrier Reef Stories: projects, blog posts and public facing events articles on the GBR which were originally Change, the Great Barrier Reef Let’s Talk About Coral Sex have communicated that the GBR is in published on the SEI’s website. The articles and the Importance of Sand Stars Killian Quigley, 38 Great Barrier Reef Stories: jeopardy if we fail to address climate change, touch on important topics such as the history Steve Doo, Sydney Environment Institute Reef Grief and showcased that the reef is essential for of GBR activism; key debates surrounding GBR California State University, Killian Quigley, the prosperity of marine ecosystems, and political action; coral science and bleaching Northridge Sydney Environment Institute for human well-being. research; and GBR stories – all which weave 27 Featured Books While the SEI’s research presents that together the narrative of SEI’s multidisciplinary The Reef: A Passionate History anthropogenic factors are having destructive GBR research portfolio and the important 15 The Temporal and Spatial Australian Echinoderms 40 Coral Futures: consequences on the prosperity of the GBR, research being undertaken by SEI affiliated Scale of Coral Bleaching: The Aesthetics of the Undersea Finding a Compromise it also emphasises that WE have the power researchers and students. Chasing Corals Liberty Lawson, to change the current trajectory. As stated by In maintaining an SEI objective of supporting Ana Vila Concejo, 28 In the Eye of the Beholder: University of Sydney SEI Co-Director Professor McCalman: “we can the voices of emerging scholars, many of the University of Sydney save the reef because we did it once before.” articles featured in this collection come from A Personal Story of Two Seeds Much of SEI’s GBR research portfolio builds students and early career academics, who Monica Gagliano, on the foundations of Iain’s work on the social, are demanding climate action for the reef. University of Western Australia cultural and environmental history of GBR, We hope that this special issue will inspire including his book The Reef: A Passionate you all to continue the conversations on 32 Great Barrier Reef Stories: History, which highlights that there is hope the GBR and contribute to the ongoing and for the future. necessary GBR scholarship. Reef Music Killian Quigley, Sydney Environment Institute Anastasia Mortimer, Magazine Editor Contact us [email protected] sydney.edu.au/sei Sydney Environment Institute 2 Sydney Environment Institute 3 The Great Barrier Reef Collection Back ___ The Return of the Repressed: The First Reef War and its Significance Today ---- Professor Iain McCalman, Sydney Environment Institute Published 26 September 2018 Photo by Martin-Maun 4 The University of Sydney Sydney Environment Institute 5 The Great Barrier Reef Collection ___ Between 1965 and 1975, the Australian poet John lodged an objection: he pointed out The publicity campaign resulted in a “ With this new Reef war, Iain McCalman Judith Wright led a successful popular political that Ellison, like all coral reefs, comprised living watershed moment for the Reef’s protection, is a Research Professor of History war to save the Great Barrier Reef from the corals on top of limestone buttresses created and by the early 1970s, polls showed that a the stakes are absolute, and at the University of Sydney and Co- Director of the Sydney Environment Queensland State Government’s campaign to from ‘dead’ coral skeletons. majority of Queenslanders now opposed Judith’s warning is relevant Institute. Over his long academic mine eighty percent of it for oil, gas, fertilizer, Unfortunately, the Mining Warden’s court has mining of the Great Barrier Reef. At this point, now more than ever.” career, Iain has established a national and cement, in conjunction with an associated rejected these arguments because Busst lacked the war was effectively won. The election of and international reputation as a drive to create a sugarcane industry by scientific qualifications. the Whitlam Labor government in 1972, the Iain McCalman historian of science, culture and levelling adjacent Reef rainforests. Squeaking an adjournment, John sought help Royal Commission’s report, and the High the environment. In 2007, Iain was from scientists at the University of Queensland Court’s decision in favour of Commonwealth Like our predecessors, we too, should awarded the Officer of the Order of in Brisbane, but they proved unwilling to involve sovereignty paved the way for a political be prepared to forge cross-disciplinary Australia for Services to History and “ Two decades later, Wright themselves in politics. settlement. Both sides of Federal parliament collaborations of the arts and sciences in the Humanities. He is a Fellow of the ended the anniversary edition Royal Historical Society, the Academy The first full-time Barrier Reef researcher, agreed in June 1975 to establish a multi-use order to halt potentially lethal operations like of the Social Sciences in Australia, of her famous book, Coral Dr ‘Charlie’ Veron, was appointed only in 1972, Barrier Reef marine park under shared those projected by the forthcoming Adani and the Australian Academy of the however, prior to Veron, Australian scientists Federal and Queensland management. Six Carmichael coal mine. Stopping Adani could Humanities and the Royal Society of Battlefield, with a chapter knew remarkably little about this massive years later this area also gained World Heritage be both a symbolic equivalent of the Ellison New South Wales. called ‘Finale Without an ecosystem. On the occasion of this Ellison listing ‘as the most impressive marine area Reef victory of 1965 and a potent means of Ending.’ She warned that Reef crisis, however, Judith Wright, managed in the world.’ reducing major local and global threats to to find a handful of university zoology students Of course, much has changed in the forty- the Reef’s survival. politicians were fickle, and to agree to undertake an underwater survey of three years since the early 1960s. For a start, With this new Reef war, the stakes are renewed attempts to mine Ellison Reef, provided John funded their travel. there is not the same deficit of scientific absolute, and Judith’s warning is relevant the Reef region could resume The student divers reported having expertise that hampered Judith’s advocacy. now more than ever. Thanks to man-made recorded 190 species of fish and 88 species The Barrier Reef now boasts four specialised atmospheric CO2, mass coral bleaching any time.” of living coral on Ellison. This, combined with marine research stations led by world- and ocean acidification threaten the total Iain McCalman the testimony a scientist who’d worked there renowned coral-reef scientists. Paradoxically, annihilation of 2,300 kilometres of coral, some years before, pushed the Warden into it is the very quality of this Reef science that one of the most beautiful natural sites on Wright had fallen in love with the Great recommending against mining, though parts inspires today’s campaigns of obfuscation and the globe and a crucial hub of Indo-Pacific Barrier Reef in 1949, while holidaying on of it had already been removed. This small opposition. Vested commercial and political Ocean bio-diversity. The full output of the southernmost Lady Elliot Island. Shocked victory unleashed a full-scale war because interests decry their scientific findings as Carmichael Mine will generate Greenhouse by the scars of guano mining, she was it goaded the Queensland Government into ‘mere opinion’ based on bias and self-interest. gas emissions on a global scale by releasing nevertheless stunned by the beauties of public action. Climate Change scepticism has become the 120 million tonnes of CO2 per annum into the island’s fringing coral reefs. From this In 1967 a crafty Country Party populist banner of populist right-wing political and the atmosphere, an amount greater than time coral reefs became her metaphor to and champion of unbridled development, cultural movements in much of the West, the annual emissions of over one hundred describe how fearless individuals could, just Joh Bjelke-Petersen, became Premier and including Australia. Right-wing radio ‘jocks’, individual countries. Adani’s mine will emit like tiny coral polyps, create bastions of moral promptly zoned eighty per cent of the Reef for Murdoch journalists, and coral-caressing more than 4.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide resistance in the very teeth of oceanic oil and gas exploration.
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