If we are truly in an emergency Morrison needs to do something dramatic. My suggestion. Mandate so no Journalist, member of the media or media organisations, politicians, public servants and anyone earning over $150k p.a. can travel in planes or cars, no mobile phones, electricity off the grid only, no gas allowed either.
Let's see just how bad this emergency is when you have to pay for it rather than me. Any takers?

Those who claim that dealing with climate change equates to higher power prices haven't a clue!

And endlessly repeated BS won't make it true!

Simply put we can have carbon-free power and vastly lower prices! The two are not mutually incompatible!

Read Thorium cheaper than coal by Economist Professor Robert Hargraves

Or Thorium Super fuel, subtitled, green energy, by Prize-winning investigative journalist and science writer Richard Martin

China our largest trading partner bar one, went from rags to riches by investing in infrastructure and innovation.

Moreover, money has never been cheaper and one could argue a business case for capital expenditure on income energy projects, i.e., MSR projects that use thorium or burn other folks nuclear waste!

Waste we'd be paid annual billions to store. And nowhere does it say we can't reprocess it first to unlock the remnant 98% still available CARBON FREE energy! And requires tha the CCCer's inspired prohibition on CARBON FREE nuclear power be lifted!

Other than that both the major parties have to stop preferencing them! But in the interest of pragmatism and logic's rites, and getting rid of tails that wag the dog ned to preference each other in green held seats!

Imagine, One Nation and the Greens swapping preferences to retain damaging balance of power and tantamount for either in doing deals with the devil for a political outcome completely devoid of electoral integrity! It's the economy stupid!

One notes the term carbon-free energy has the cage rattlers going berserk with the cage-rattling commentary.

Mining jobs don't start and end with coal! Everything including our current energy exports can be replaced by other vastly superior alternatives, ditto mining!
Alan B.

Alan we are not allowed to have nuclear energy of any form.
Thats it end of story !

"Alan we are not allowed to have nuclear energy of any form."

That's true Bazz. But we can have as many of the plants AlanB is raving about, because they are all fictitious. They don't exist anywhere other than the fevered imaginations of Alan and his ilk.

You climate deniers should just get off your soapboxes, and study the 'mood'. Most educated individuals, and some who have some sort of survival instinct, are already 'on board'. Glaciers don't suddenly melt, the Arctic Ocean doesn't incidentally lose ALL of its ice, the Antarctic doesn't start calving gigantic icebergs for no reason. Stop comforting yourselves with the bedtime stories of the elites, and stop confusing the elites with conservationists. Accept the future, and get with the programme. Who cares if your power comes from someone's roof? If it works, and we now know its price is putting coal and nuclear out of business in the US, then accept it, and enjoy! Australia has the capacity to lead the world in renewables! And for those who buy into Tony Abbott's aesthetic, tell me honestly if you REALLY prefer the look of a coal-fired power station to a paddock of wind turbines. And if you think about the orange bellied parrot being chopped up by a wind turbine, do you really care? You never objected when the loggers moved in. Take an honest look at your beliefs. Most of you right wingers sound like little school boys, scared of learning something new.

And if I am to receive a boatload of dopey personal comments, try and stick to the topic. Answer the questions posed!