Broadhurst Reef News Today

Australia’s highest court yesterday dismissed an intellectual freedom claim by a university physicist who was fired in part over his public statements that scientists exaggerated damage to the Great Barrier Reef. Five High Court judges unanimously dismissed physicist Peter Ridd’s claim that he had been unlawfully dismissed in 2018 by James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland. The court ruled that a clause in his employment contract that protected his intellectual freedom was not a “g...

Plumes of seawater droplets generated by the jet sprayer rise into the sky (credit Brendan Kelaher/Southern Cross University). ...

After making several attempts to swim down and activate an emergency safety beacon, two of the men decided to try to swim to shore. "Two of the younger people on onboard swam to shore in an attempt to go up to the lighthouse and raise the alarm," Water Police Sergeant Matt Pegg said. "Unfortunately the lighthouse was unmanned, and in the meantime... the boat has continued to drift in and hit the rocks and the two older gents managed to scramble ashore." Queensland Police The overturned boat ...