Australia intends to keep exporting coal for as long as there are countries willing to buy it.
Miners have grand dreams of establishing new coal regions in Queensland to supply coal to the power stations and steel mills of India.
But how much longer will India, and our other big coal customers, keep needing it?
Guests:
Neelima Jain, Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies
Mika Ohbayashi, Director of the Renewable Energy Institute, Tokyo
Mary Delahunty, Head of Impact at Hesta
Ian Macfarlane, Chief Executive of Queensland Resources Council & former federal resources minister
Dr Judith Brett - Emeritus Professor of Politics at La Trobe University, author of the Quarterly Essay The Coal Curse
