So we deny China and India coal for their energy needs and both nuclear powers move down and battle, on who owns Australia. All Australian welfare and education would cease as the money from exports dry up. This is The Green New Deal that Max want's us to adopt. We go nuclear but it raises no foreign export income. Iron ore would not be processed because no coal furnaces, so our other big export would close. Our economy would return to the 1860's relying on farming that would be owned by China.
THIS IS OUR FUTURE UNDER MAX. No ideas!

You're so wrong Josephus.

We go for a standardised nuke of today like the CAP1400. Look it up, it's a good reactor.

We go big, basically setting up a nuclear assembly line the way the French had to in the 70's.

We move a bunch of coal miners (with generous incentives) down to Olympic dam mine and radically scale up our uranium mining. Then we can PROCESS it and sell it for higher value to our new nuclear customers, because not only are we fast building nukes for ourselves, but we're selling nukes overseas as well.

We sell overseas nukes + fuel + charge them a fee to take their 'waste' back, because we're smart and know how much that 'waste' is gong to be worth when we've perfected our breeder reactors!

Iron ore can be smelted with hydrogen instead of coking coal as the reductant. Basically we shouldn't sell iron ore overseas as a raw product, but should process the ore here and make high grade steel and sell THAT on to the world market. CO2 free steel? Sure thing, Australia can do that!

Then guess what?

Our national health bill will go down as we stop burning coal and gas and oil. And we'll be ready for peak oil and gas and coal, ahead of the depletion curve so it cannot cut us off guard with the Export Land Model which can really mess up an economy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_Land_Model

Dear Max Green,

Nice idea but unfortunately we will all be burnt to a crisp before it happens.

This current environmental disaster is just the beginning. Australia is just going to get hotter, drier and more like a desert each year. A living hell!

We are 60 years too late to do anything about it.

All the very few people the media has managed to find willing to make pricks of themselves to the PM in public have achieved is to prove what a good bloke the man is. I've never been one of his fans, but he has gone up in my estimation, with his handling of Green/Labor stooges who are low enough to use a national crisis for political reasons.

Max, Mr O, I hope you don't talk like this in front of kids, boy you guys are off the planet.
I don't know what you're on but let me assure you, what you are predicting is not going to happen.
All the modelling and computing and so on, are all hypothesis.
It will not happen, and why? because all these doom and gloom stories you guys are putting about is just that, stories.
You can quote all the facts you like, but the TRUTH is that what we are going through now is not new, we have gone through it before, and we will go through it again.
Obviously you and others are looking for the data that will make your doom and gloom case for you.
IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!
So take something, sit down, take a few deep breaths, and relax.
If what you say is true, then it's too late, we are doomed, so sit back and relax, as apparently, the end is nigh!

It is extraordinary how ignorant people are of the organisational
structure of the emergency services.
The states own the responsibility and the combat services.
These services are the State Emergency Service, the Rural Fire
Service, Country Fire Service etc, Metropolitan Fire Brigades,
Marine Rescue, Ambulance Service.
ACT & Nth Territory have their own organisations.

The police are part of it but a little separate.
The States have their State Emergency Management Committees.
Under each State Management committee are District Management
Committees, and under each of these are Local Emergency Committees,
which operated under local councils.
Also on these committees are Functional area organisations, such as
Railways Depts, Hospitals, Animal Welfare, Voluntary Rescue Association,
Bush Walkers Search & Rescue, Caves Rescue, Crest CB and
St Johns Ambulance, Wireless Institute of Australia Civil Emergency Network.

The senior officer of each committee is the senior Police Officer
in the district together with the Local Emergency Management Officer.

The Commonwealth Government has no part in this system.
If equipment or service of some sort is required that the Federal Govt
can supply the request goes via the State Emergency Management Committee.
This is exactly what has been happening these last weeks on a daily basis.
You can see that the criticism of the Federal Goverment & PM is irrelevant.
This arrangement was setup in December 1990 and has been very successful.