Billionaire Atlassian co-founder warns all coal mining jobs in Australia will disappear in just 20 YEARS - putting 230,000 people out of work
- Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon Brookes predicts coal jobs will go by 2040
- Software billionaire lives in $100million Point Piper mansion on Sydney Harbour
A billionaire co-founder of Atlassian has declared coal jobs will disappear within two decades.
Mike Cannon-Brookes, who lives in a $100million Point Piper mansion on Sydney Harbour, made the prediction during an online forum with workplace software company Slack.
'You're not all going to lose your jobs tomorrow, but we have to start from a position of honesty,' he said.
'Coal jobs are going away in the next 20 years.'
The 40-year-old entrepreneur is a campaigner for renewal energy along with collaborative software giant Atlassian's other co-founder Scott Farquhar.
Australia's mining industry employs 233,300 people or 1.9 per cent of Australia's workforce, with not all of them involved in extracting coal.
Metallurgical and thermal coal exports to China were last year worth $$17billion, making this Australia's most lucrative export to Australia's biggest trading partner after iron ore, education and tourism.
A billionaire co-founder of Atlassian has declared coal jobs will disappear within two decades. Mike Cannon-Brookes (pictured with wife Annie), who lives in a $100million mansion on Sydney Harbour, made the prediction during an online forum with workplace software company Slack
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