Imagining a post-coal Australia

The Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been talking up the future of the coal industry in the decades to come. That's despite a COP26 promise to "phase down" coal, and frequent widespread predictions that market forces are already forcing coal into terminal decline. So who's right? Today on The Signal, the surprisingly bright future of mining in Australia. How much more coal are we really going to dig up and sell? And what other kinds of mining might take its place? Featured: Dr Richard Denniss, Chief Economist, The Australia Institute

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