Badass Primary School Kids Grill Malcolm Turnbull About Adani And The Great Barrier Reef

Poor Malcolm Turnbull. You’d think a visit to a primary school would be an easy win for the guy. Pose for a couple of pictures. Help them with their arithmetic. Rattle off a quick speech about how children are the future, etc.

Unfortunately, it would appear he underestimated the political nous of the students at Bondi Public, who disrupted a routine media opp with inconvenient questions about the disastrous environmental legacy they’re about to inherit.

The kids started off with a softball question, lulling the PM into a false sense of security by asking about his favourite thing to do at his office. And then, once he was all buttered up, they struck.

“What are you doing to save the Barrier Reef?” asked one boy.

“We’re doing lots of things actually,” replied Turnbull. “One of the most important things we’re doing is making sure that there isn’t chemicals and soil running off onto the reef.”

Unsatisfied with that answer, the budding journos continued to press.

“Are you getting rid of that mine that was putting all of that waste into the Great Barrier Reef?” asked another student, in an apparent reference to Adani’s proposed Carmichael mine that has been repeatedly slammed by environmental activists and climate scientists alike.

“I’m not sure what one you’re talking about,” diverted Turnbull, before insisting that “most of the runoff onto the reef comes from agriculture, actually.”

Bloody politicians. Never can get a straight answer.

You can watch the entire classroom Q&A below.