How pleasing to see therefore a unified effort between states, territories and the federal government in the fight against the global pandemic, COVID-19.

Politicians seem to be heeding the best available medical and scientific advice and releasing enormous unprecedented funds in an attempt to shut-down this virus quickly.

Rampant unemployment and huge economic debt are accepted as the unfortunate consequences of this united strategy.

For now the intense focus on COVID-19 overshadows the imminent catastrophe of climate change which is rapidly moving globally to a position of irreversibility.

The Royal Commission into our most recent bushfires has determined that 'climate-change is the main driver of the catastrophic fire dangers we experienced that destroyed so many Australian lives and livelihoods'; a finding that is contrary to the long-held beliefs of many politicians.

Climate-change is like a global pandemic and required defence strategy is both urgent and similar to that now being used in the fight against the corona virus.

As a nation we have been clinging to power generation from fossil fuels for too long and have been resistive to the acceptance of clean-energy employment opportunities.

Whilst Joe Biden makes it clear that the future for the American auto industry is in electric vehicles, we have a government that only last year adopted an electric vehicle scare campaign, suggesting that Labor is out to 'steal' the great (fossil-fuelled) traditional Aussie ute from all 'Tradies'.

Had we earlier accepted the advantages of electric vehicles towards climate-change mitigation and the employment opportunities it presented then there would now be local jobs aplenty from both vehicle manufacturing and green hydrogen energy production and export.

Outcomes from such mature planning would now be providing welcome relief to our raging unemployment predicament and support to national debt recovery.

Climate change mitigation strategy now demands the same urgency and commitment as used in the fight against COVID-19.

The findings of the Royal Commission bring focus to an inevitable dangerous future that will destroy "many Australian lives and livelihoods" as COVID-19 has done.

Similarly, as "we are all in this together" then 'together' we must urgently address the extreme and predictable challenges of future climate change.