How will Australia fare when a nuclear holocaust takes place?

In addition to the need for food, survivors face challenges in other aspects of their everyday life. The damage from a nuclear war to cities where populations are concentrated, and destruction and disruption of critical utilities, services and industries have all not been examined and brought prominently into public knowledge and consciousness.

War games scenarios have been played including by the media but the fall out from a nuclear war has received minimal attention. In fact the post war scenarios - following a nucleur war - appear to have been deliberately kept out of sight.

What are the physical and biological aspects and implications of nuclear war for Australia? How will survivors cope with the health and other medical effects of radiation? What are the direct and indirect impacts on various socio-economic sectors? How does government and society reorganise itself? How will social order and human behavoir be altered and look like?

These and more questions need to be asked even though there may not be be answers for them.

It would be good if Australia's foremost media that has stated its core mission "is to break news and shape news" - and which recently provided the public and political leaders with the "Red Alert" series urging Australia to prepare for war with China - uses its clout and space to begin asking these questions that can alert and inform Australians on how to deal with nuclear war in the southern neighbourhood.