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Territory Seafood Crew, Darwin (2026)

17/06/2026

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬, 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐤 𝐔𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐍𝐎 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐞.

Most Australians would have no idea what has just happened in WA. Fisheries have been shut down by a snap government decision.

Fishing families have been left shattered.

Family businesses, licences, boats, crews, processors and coastal communities have been thrown into chaos.

People were given around three weeks’ notice.

🔸No proper transition.
🔸No meaningful support.
🔸No respectful landing.

Just the sweep of a pen, a press release, and 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫.

That is not reform.
That is how you treat people when you have forgotten they are people.

I have spent the last six months working with fishing families and communities that have been left totally shattered by this captain’s call. These are not faceless “industries”. These are Australian families. Working people. Primary producers. People who put food on Australian tables.

Family legacies have been wiped out with all the empathy of a parking inspector writing tickets at a funeral.

And then, right on cue, enter the billionaire class.

🔸Celebrating.
🔸Claiming credit.
🔸Telling the world their “advocacy” helped drive the decision.

And by advocacy, of course, we mean taking a 90s trawling clip, polishing it up under the cover of a glossy ocean documentary, adding horror music, dramatic edits, emotional narration, the borrowed authority of the world’s most trusted voice, and sending it out to do a job.

The job?
To help close a fishery they probably could have bought outright with pocket change.

🔸The boats.
🔸The licences.
🔸The businesses.
🔸The future.
🔸The whole damn thing.

But instead of dignity, transition, compensation, buyout or respect, fishing families got three weeks’ notice and a billionaire-backed victory lap dressed up as ocean storytelling.

A cheap edit with an BIG expense account.

The billionaire class celebrating the destruction of working-class Australian primary producers is not conservation.
𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲.

And honestly, it takes a special kind of cruelty to help destroy people’s livelihoods and then expect those same people to admire the cinematography.

Because yes, when I questioned the editing of the trawl video — the very video being used to fuel these appalling decisions — I expected at least some reflection.

Maybe even a flicker of empathy.

Instead, I was told I needed to “respect the editing” and “respect the storytelling.”

No words.
Actually, two words.
I don’t.

I was at uni before Windows even existed, and I just darkened this little video of the world’s softest dog in about 30 minutes.

🔸No billionaire.
🔸No production company.
🔸No buffet.
🔸No borrowed Attenborough glow.

One filter and a soundtrack. So no, I am not standing here in awe of their great cinematic miracle.

Because emotional manipulation is not truth.
Storytelling is not science.
A horror soundtrack is not evidence.

And a carefully edited activist clip is not a fair basis for destroying Australian fishing families.

⭕️Respect is not owed to people who use emotional manipulation to attack Australian producers.

⭕️Respect is not owed to people who dress up activist material as documentary truth.

⭕️Respect is not owed to people who share clips they do not understand while calling for other people’s livelihoods to be destroyed from the safety of their couch.

It is a very high bar to attack someone’s livelihood.
And I can tell you right now, that bar is not cleared because a video had dramatic music and made you feel something inside.

If you want to close fisheries, destroy businesses, end family legacies and remove Australian seafood from Australian tables, then at least have the decency to understand what you are talking about.

Because this is not a game.
These are not characters in someone else’s documentary.

🔸These are real people.
🔸Real families.
🔸Real communities.
🔸Real Australian food production.

But hey, if edited footage is all it takes now, do me one favour.

Share the video of the monster on the beach.
And maybe we can just keep beach to ourselves.

14/06/2026

🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒 🚨

The recreational fishing sector has woken to discover it may have been totally played.

"𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛'𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑁𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦'𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟, 𝑠𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑛-𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒. 𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟."

— Anonymous Recreational Fishing Representative, speaking through tears.

Sources close to the situation say the once-oddly close relationship between environmental NGOs, their well-funded campaign machine, and recreational fishing leaders has now broken down due to 𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬.

"𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑢𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑠."

Having helped sell the world’s largest marine park network on the promise that recreational fishing would be protected, parts of the rec sector have now woken up inside the worst "𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐨" story in decades.

They thought they had backed a plan that would lock out commercial fishers while leaving recreational access largely untouched.

Then came the front-page plot twist.
Their partners have moved on.

🎣 Recreational fishers are now discovering that the marine parks they supported may soon become the very places they are no longer allowed to fish.

With environmental NGO proposals pushing large parts of the marine park network toward full protection, many recreational fishers are getting front-row seats to the same show commercial fishers watched years ago.

😳 Rec Sector representatives who were assured this would never happen are reportedly "still processing events."

Some remain frozen in disbelief.
Others are very quiet for people who appear to have been stitched up in front of the entire country.

🤔 Meanwhile, enter the younger, sexier, non-extractive dive sector.

A new cast of characters has arrived to explain why fishing should be banned in places many of them will never dive.

Advertisements have been purchased.
Campaigns launched.
Press releases distributed.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡?
𝐆𝐞𝐞𝐳, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠

🍿 Commercial fishers have declined to comment.

Mostly because:
𝐖𝐞. 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐲. 𝐓𝐨𝐥𝐝. 𝐘𝐨𝐮. 𝐒𝐨.

11/06/2026

🚨𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝟓𝟎% 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐖𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐀𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 🚨

You’ve probably seen the campaign.

Big graphics.
Big emotion.
Big donation buttons.
And one very scary claim:

👉 “𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝟓𝟎% 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬.”

Sounds shocking, doesn’t it?

That’s the point.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐈 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞!

If around half of Australia’s marine estate is in marine parks…

And they claim trawling is allowed in half of those parks…

Then the public is pushed to imagine massive parts of our ocean are open to industrial trawling.

And if they also imply trawling is allowed outside marine parks too?

Suddenly the emotional picture becomes this:

😱 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠.

That is the fear campaign.

Now here is the reality.

Australia has one of the smallest and most tightly managed trawl footprints in the world.

The actual trawl footprint is just a tiny fraction of the marine estate.

Not 75%.

Not 50%.

Not even close.

In fact, even if every single bit of trawling occurred inside marine parks — which it does not — it would still only be a small fraction of the marine park network.

So why are Australians being shown graphics designed to make them believe something completely different?

Why are tax-exempt and tax-deductible organisations allowed to shake the donation tin using claims that create unnecessary fear and anxiety in the community?

And why is this happening during a public consultation process?

Because this is bigger than one campaign.

This is about whether public consultation can be flooded with misleading claims, emotional manipulation, and donation-driven messaging — while government looks the other way.

That is not genuine consultation.

That is consultation capture.

🐟 𝐅𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬.
🌊 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
⚖️ 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬.

So here is my question:

🔥 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐭?

Because allowing deception to shape public policy is not consultation.

𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞.

07/06/2026

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 — 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞

Well, if the enviro-NGOs are going to turn the marine park review into a song and dance show, we may as well grab a top hat and join in.

So here’s the bit of history they don’t seem too keen to sing about.

Back in 2010, Australia signed up to protect 10% of our marine estate under the Aichi biodiversity targets.

Fair enough.
Then we found the fine print.

By 2018–19, Australia had built the world’s largest marine park network, covering around 45% of our marine estate.

That network was supposed to be built on science, evidence, bioregional planning, clear objectives, social and economic consideration, and CAR principles — comprehensive, adequate and representative.

You know. The boring stuff.

🔶Process.
🔶Evidence.
🔶Actual goals.

Then along came Half-Earth — E.O. Wilson’s idea that half the planet should be returned to nature.

A nice little bedtime story if your idea of a bedtime story is locking up half the world and calling it ambition.

By 2021, Scotty from Marketing had signed Australia up to the High Ambition Coalition. You guessed it - to lock up half the world!!

And from that moment, the old marine park goals and guidelines may as well have been fired out of a confetti cannon.

Science-led decision-making?
Gone.

Social and economic impact assessment?
Gone.

The original principles used to build the network?
Quietly shown the door.

Because once “30x30” hit the stage, apparently questions like “what are we trying to achieve?” and “what will this cost?” became heckling from the cheap seats.

Even better, government kept telling us Australia had already met the target.

Job done.

Except they kept announcing more massive closures in external waters.

Christmas Island.
Cocos.

Vast areas with little or no current fishing.

Which raises a pretty simple question.
If the target was already met, why were we still locking up more?

Then came 2022.
Scotty lost the election, but the high ambition show rolled on.

The new government headed to Montreal and signed Australia up to new biodiversity targets, with WWF involved in shaping Australia’s position.

🔶Industry?
🔶Seafood producers?
🔶Regional communities?

The people whose lives and businesses may be affected?

Don’t be silly.
This is a musical.
The extras don’t get speaking parts.

Then in 2025, Murray Watt headed overseas and the script changed again.

First it sounded like 30% of marine parks needed high protection.
Then it became 30% of the entire marine estate.

That is either confusion on a spectacular scale, or Australia spent years telling the public one thing while preparing to do another.

Either way, not a great look.

Now the marine park review is coming, and surprise, surprise — the same groups are already warming up the orchestra.

⭕️Overseas trawler images.
⭕️Edited documentary clips.
⭕️Claims pretending “multiple use” means “open slather”.
⭕️Theatre dressed up as science.

And now the new line is “just 6% to go” — as if all those vast external closures were always part of a clear, honest, publicly understood plan.

What happens when they get that 6%?

Anyone want to bet the next song is called:
“Actually, We Need More”?

And don’t worry, I’m sure they assessed the cost.
Oh wait.

The Minister has just admitted costs have not been considered.

Only half of Australia on the table.
What could possibly go wrong?

28/05/2026

🚨 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐂𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

If people only believe what they see, then deliberately changing what they see is not storytelling.

It is propaganda.

The people behind this footage have now said they wanted to film trawling “𝐬𝐨 𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧.”

Hardly neutral observation.

Especially when they were filming something they had apparently never seen before.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭.

They also said:

“𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝.”

Exactly.

So here is the obvious question.
If the raw footage proved the case, why did it need so much help?

▪️Why darken it?
▪️Why add a horror-style soundtrack?
▪️Why speed it up?
▪️Why make the cuts shorter, harsher and more aggressive?

Why take a light trawl moving across a muddy seabed and edit it until it felt like violence?

Then came the final layer.

The world’s most trusted voice telling millions of people the net “𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡.”

A powerful line.
Emotionally devastating.

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞.

And this matters.
Because this kind of content is not just entertainment.

▪️It shapes public opinion.
▪️It creates political pressure.
▪️It influences decision makers.

And it puts real people, real businesses, real food production and real coastal communities in the firing line.

This is not how serious decisions about Australian seafood should be made.

▪️Not from mood music.
▪️Not from darkened footage.
▪️Not from clever editing.
▪️Not from cinematic persuasion dressed up as documentary.

I am angry because this is not a game.

Industries are damaged by this stuff.

Families are put under pressure.

Public trust in science and management is corroded.

And evidence-based fisheries management gets dragged into the theatre of manufactured outrage.

𝐈𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

Watch the clip.

Ask the obvious question.

𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐭?

Share this if you think decision makers should be relying on evidence — not edited outrage.

22/05/2026

⏰ 𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐊. 𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐊. 𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐊.

Australia once built fisheries management systems specifically designed to keep short-term politics out of resource allocation.

𝐖𝐡𝐲?

Because governments understood something important:

The loudest voices are not always what best serves the broader community. And certainly not your chance of re-election.

Then comes the social media driven political sugar hit.

More access.
More promises.
More votes. Just kidding there ain't no votes!

At first nobody notices the damage.

The seafood still appears on the menu.
The boats still head out.
The politicians keep handing out lollies.

But modern recreational fishing is 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫.

Today’s fleets have live sonar.
Side scan imaging.
Massive range.
Social media intel.
Technology capable of scaling fishing pressure faster than governments are willing to admit.

And still… governments avoided the hard decisions.

No licences in some states.
No proper catch data.
No meaningful effort controls.
No political appetite to properly manage modern rec fishing pressure.

So instead of fixing the problem…

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐤𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝.

Artificial reefs.
Restocking programs.
𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞.
And commercial fisheries quietly sacrificed as cover for management failure elsewhere.

𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐬.

Stocks decline.
Access disappears.
Communities fracture.
And new ministers inherit a crisis decades in the making.

Then the public finally realises something uncomfortable:

Commercial fisheries weren’t always removed because they were the problem…

Sometimes they were removed because governments failed to manage the real pressure building elsewhere.

It’s time to get back to evidence-based decisions.

Not 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬.
Not 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐬.
Not 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲.

Proper science.
Proper data.
Proper frameworks.

That’s how we save the fisheries — and 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐦𝐛.

𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎.
𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐓.
𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐆𝐄.

Before more decisions are made that Australia can’t undo.

20/05/2026

🇦🇺 𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐀 𝐀𝐋𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐓 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐇 🇦🇺

Years of science.
Years of mapping.
Years of negotiation.
Nearly a decade of stakeholder engagement.

In 2019, Australians were 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞.
A world-leading marine park network.

Built around CAR principles.
Built around agreed national goals and guidelines.
Built through engagement with the Australian people.

Then suddenly…
𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐃

Without any real national conversation, Australia was signed up to a new international “High Ambition Coalition for Nature.”

At first 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝:
“Our marine parks already meet the new targets.”

So Australians should ask a very simple question:
𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐃𝐈𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐔𝐏𝐒 𝐊𝐄𝐄𝐏 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆?

▪️Christmas Island.
▪️Cocos.
▪️Heard and McDonald.
▪️Macquarie Island.

🚫More no-take zones.
🚫More announcements.
🚫Less transparency.

Environmental NGOs appeared closer and closer to the process.
Meanwhile the Australian public — the people who actually own these waters — were 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦.

Now suddenly Australia is being told:
30% of marine parks are being locked up.
𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐃𝐀𝐘: 𝟑𝟎% 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞.

No clear national framework.
No honest explanation of what “representative protection” could actually mean for industries, communities and regional Australia.

And here’s the part every Australian should think very carefully about: We were all told targets were already “𝐌𝐄𝐓”…
So why were more lockups 𝐀𝐋𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝?

This video is not about whether marine parks matter.

It’s about transparency.
Influence.
Process.

And whether Australians have honestly been told where this agenda is heading.

𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨.
Then decide for yourself who is really driving Australia’s ocean policy. If Australians don’t start asking questions now, these decisions will already be locked in 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭.

👇 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐄 this video.
👍 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 the page.
🔔 𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖 for the next part.

𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞.

17/05/2026

𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐈𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐉𝐎𝐁 𝐀𝐓 𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐊‼️

TV ads. Online campaigns. Public attacks.

A full campaign aimed at destroying the livelihood that keeps a roof over your head and food on the table.

𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐀 𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆.

Now imagine the story behind it doesn’t stack up.

▪️No boat.
▪️No licence.
▪️No clear records.

Just a shifting story, a paid campaign, and real fishing families left to carry the damage.

𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭 “𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐀 𝐒𝐊𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍”

Then Fisheries gave us 𝐧𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍.
So the story shifted.

Then came 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧.
Except crew lists include who was on board.

Then came 𝟏𝟕-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟓𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 — apparently hanging around boats back in the day.

Now they’re giving us 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 when we ask questions. You honestly couldn’t script it better.

They ran TV ads using Stan’s story to attack Territory fishing jobs and help take your wild-caught Barra and Threadfin off local menus.

So we asked the obvious questions:

▪️What boat?
▪️What licence?
▪️What records?

And suddenly the story got very, very quiet.

Now they say they won’t show the evidence because they’re “𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬.”

That sounds legit.

You don’t get to run a full-blown public campaign to destroy fishing jobs, businesses, investment and livelihoods — then suddenly claim you can’t release evidence because you’re worried about hurting our feelings.

You were happy to put an entire industry on trial in your 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐩-𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐓𝐕 𝐚𝐝𝐬.

But when asked to prove the story?
Suddenly it’s all care, caution and concern

Good luck with that..........

𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨
Then ask the question they still won’t answer:

𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍?

15/05/2026

🎭🐟 𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋… 𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘. 🎭

Reason?
Another copyright complaint from local enviroNGO
𝑻𝑶𝑷 𝑬𝑵𝑫 𝑯𝑬𝑨𝑳𝑻𝑯𝒀 𝑪𝑶𝑨𝑺𝑻𝑺

And what priceless piece of intellectual property were they desperately protecting?

👉 “𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐑”

Yep… the mystery fisherman from the TV ads that apparently nobody can identify. 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬.

Now here’s what you don't know…
They also block us from commenting on their posts.

It seems “community conversation” is only welcome until someone asks a question. 🤔

And honestly… if they thought copyright complaints, blocked comments, and shutting down discussion were going to make people lose interest in Stan…

𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐫.........🍺

They may have seriously underestimated 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍!

14/05/2026

𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐌𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐔𝐓𝐄𝐒 — 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈’𝐋𝐋 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐀 𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐎 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐏𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐎𝐅𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄

A university report helped close fisheries.

▪️It carried university branding.
▪️It looked independent.
▪️It looked official.
▪️It looked like 𝘴𝚌𝙞𝙚🅝ⓒ𝕖.

🔹Then fishing families paid the price.
🔹Seafood businesses paid the price.
🔹Australian consumers paid the price.

And when the questions finally started?
The branding just disappeared.

Watch the video and ask yourself one simple question:
𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠… 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲’𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 — 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞?

By 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬, you would be amazed how much this helps us get this message out. 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐘𝐎𝐔🙏🙏

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