The coal curse : resources, climate and Australia's future / Judith Brett.
Series: Quarterly essay (Melbourne, Vic.) ; issue 78 (2020).Publisher: Carlton, VIC : Black Inc., 2020Description: 136 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
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- unmediated
- volume
- 9781760642297
- Quarterly essay. 78, The coal curse
- Coal mines and mining -- Economic aspects
- Coal mines and mining -- Environmental aspects
- Coal mines and mining -- Government policy
- Coal trade
- Economic history
- Politics and government
- Essays
- Coal mines and mining -- Government policy -- Australia
- Coal trade -- Australia
- Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects -- Australia
- Coal mines and mining -- Australia
- Mineral industries -- Australia
- Climate change -- Australia
- Renewable energy sources -- Australia
- Coal mines and mining -- Economic aspects -- Australia
- Coal mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- Australia
- Climatic changes -- Australia
- Australia
- Australia -- Economic conditions
- Australia -- Politics and government
- Australian
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- HD9558.A8 B74 2020
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Magazine | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Magazines | QE78 | June 2020 | Available | The coal curse by Judith Brett | 061842 |
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The coal curse / Judith Brett -- Correspondence.
Australia is a wealthy nation with the economic profile of a developing country, heavy on raw materials, and low on innovation and skilled manufacturing. Once we rode on the sheep's back for our overseas trade; today we rely on cartloads of coal and tankers of LNG. So must we double down on fossil fuels, now that Covid-19 has halted the flow of international students and tourists? Or is there a better way forward, which supports renewable energy and local manufacturing? Judith Brett traces the unusual history of Australia's economy and the "resource curse" that has shaped our politics. She shows how the mining industry learnt to run fear campaigns, and how the Coalition became dominated by fossil-fuel interests to the exclusion of other voices.In this insightful essay about leadership, vision and history, she looks at the costs of Australia's coal addiction and asks, where will we be if the world stops buying it?
