Excellent article. Unfortunately the same process is happening in many areas of public life. People identify a problem (or what they think is a problem) and gain public funding to address this problem. Once a large number of people and organisations are suckling at the tax payers teat it almost impossible to turn off the supply of money and these organisations and individuals will never admit that the problem no longer exists. The same can be seen in "climate change", covid response, pharmaceuticals in general, the racism industry, saving the great barrier reef and almost any other area where a trough of other peoples money exists. The cowards that dole out the money gain kudos for "saving the planet" or whatever the purported goal is. The beneficiaries of the largess have enormous interest in keeping the scam going.

Footnote. We were once the third wealthiest nation in the world and a creditor one at that with a post war robust manufacturing sector. And all created, one could argue by cheap abundant reliable 24/7 dispatchable publicly owned and controlled energy.

Times have changed to be sure but economic fundamentals never ever do. We talk of bringing in more and more people. We cannot house those already here! And building more dwelling will require the loss of more and more habitat!

We look to a future where more and more occupations will be automated as will much of our future defense.

Our post war recovery was an energy led recovery and the only prospect in play this time around.

Think, absolutely everything we use or consume has an energy component. And the price of energy all but controls the end price we pay for all service, goods or public amenity.

Only nuclear power allows us to turn seawater into fuel plastic and fertilizer. And ultracheap power will allow us to drought proof this nation given the costs of desalination and pushing water uphill.

If we don't have an energy led recovery! We just don't recover nor start to make inroads into a massive debt and exponentially increasing debt service costs.

Importing missing skills can be temporary just as it was in post war Germany which created Europe's largest economy and the economic engine house of Europe. And allowed the sensible creation of a nuclear-powered industrial sector.



Simply put, the cheapest, safest, cleanest energy in the world in thorium/nuclear waste burning, based nuclear power! And both perfectly safe, clean and also carbon-free. Something the Koala population of Australia will thank us for in the fourth coming era as other energy starved nations follow where we led.

Blame shifting or the same old, same old may serve a political imperative but does nothing real for the economy nor our native species/forests or our national or exported carbon footprint.

Just don't do something, stand there.
Alan B.

Its a highly irresponsible article.

Doesn't the author realise how many lives, careers, organisations and government programmes are reliant on hiding the truth about the koala apocalypse?

Just be quiet and pretend all the "flea-ridden, piddling, stinking, scratching, rotten little things" (John Brown) are going to be extinct 4 years from next Tuesday week.