The China-chaired UNESCO panel has given Australia eight months to submit a progress report on the Great Barrier Reef after it agreed to defer the ‘in danger’ vote until mid-2022. In the committee meeting, 19 out of 21 countries agreed that there should not be an immediate in danger listing. Federal MP George Christensen who represents the federal North Queensland seat of Dawson that contains many of the coastal regions that border the Great Barrier Reef said the ‘in danger’ recommendation clearly had political motivations behind it. He hoped that over the next 12 months, the UN committee would follow the facts and not follow the Chinese Communist Party’s “revenge streak.” A report by the Australian Institute of Marine Science showed that following three major coral bleaching events over the last five years, widespread coral recovery was taking place. “And that’s why it is clear that the only way you …