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Yes we are still digging both iron ore and coal which we will sell to anyone, even a potential enemy - like the scrap steel sold to Japan in the 1930s.
We (our politicians that is) are totally unprincipled and completely at the behest of anyone with money. We have even sold the Port of Darwin to the Chinese!
Yes, the new K class will be coal fired everything - even the galley.
All is not lost, however, there are savings! The turbines have been replaced with steam reciprocating saving on the capital cost.
Unfortunately, coal firing and the steam reciprocating will preclude submerged operation but this is not seen in Canberra as a problem as the water at their RNSW Navy wharf in Sydney Harbour is not deep enough to allow submerging anyway.
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If Global Warming is so prevalent why are there so many snowflakes around? 
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