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Queensland Senator Pauline Hanson<\/a> has been filmed with a “coral expert” Alison Jones handling Great Barrier Reef coral on a trip to Yeppoon on the southern Great Barrier Reef. The dive was organised to dispel the findings\u00a0of scientists who say\u00a0coral bleaching is occurring due to high sea surface temperatures brought about by global warming and an El Nino weather event.<\/p>\n One nation chartered Freedom Fast Cats<\/a> for the tour. Skipper of the vessel,\u00a0Max Allen Jr, identified the dive location as Monkey’s Bay, which is out from the company’s base at Rosslyn Bay Harbour, Yeppoon.<\/p>\n “Today we will be going to Monkey’s Bay, also the reef edge, one of their largest, and also one of the strong corals,” he said.<\/a><\/p>\n After a frolick in snorkeling gear and wetsuits, both One Nation senators Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts<\/a> declared the Great Barrier Reef alive and well.<\/p>\n “If you actually go deeper from twelve to twenty metres deeper into the ocean then you have the reefs there – they’re in pristine condition and they’re growing all the time,” Senator Hanson told the media.<\/p>\n “We can’t have these lies put across and by people with their own agendas.”<\/p>\n “We are being controlled by the UN and these agreements that have been done for people’s self-interest.”<\/p>\n