Was there a particular story in the collection we can maybe tease out a little bit that you found was enjoyable or challenging to write?

Yeah, the very first one, TAP, which is T-A-P-P, the Authorized Punishment Plan.

And this is a big hit.

Straight away, it's like any band's opening number.

Bang! This is a story about...

how a new government has come to power and has changed the criminal justice system so that it's focused on punishment.

So it's an eye for an eye kind of thing, which again, not new, but this is not a new concept, but it's really quite explicit.

So what do you hope readers take away from your book when they read it?

Talk to us a little bit about the scope and scale of it, the critical role of the transport sector.

Yeah, great point.

I'll start with emissions.

And that's because there's over 100 million tonnes of emissions from the transport sector each year.

It's around a fifth of Australia's total pool.

And so large pool, it's also a varied sector.

The solution for the passenger vehicle market is quite different to the international shipping market.

Is that right?

Is it really just to tide us over until a matured market can be self-sustaining, a domestic market and production capacity for these things? Or do we expect that these efforts to prop it up are going to be a long-term feature of the system?

I think some of the moves that the Trump administration is making now could be seen as sort of emergency stopgap measures until the problem of Chinese dumping is solved.

So China has weaponized its industries against us for 20 years to deliberately destroy our production capabilities for a whole range of materials, metals and minerals.

It was not for a very long time...

American companies or Western companies competing with Chinese companies.

It was Western companies trying to compete against the CCP.

They were trying to compete against the Chinese state.

So why is it so difficult for us to do this ourselves?

So the floor is yours.

Thank you, Mehmet.

It's awesome to be here.

So what I've been doing for the last 16 and a half years, I've been building sales teams in the FinTech, the payments technology, software space.

Sometimes people call it the SaaS space, software as a service.

I've been building sales teams for about 16 and a half years at a large organization.

And over the last year, it's actually my one-year anniversary, over this last year, I have been at a company called North.

my area of expertise.

... that makes it environmentally less, uh, disastrous, which means we can kind of onshore this capacity to the States, yeah?

The largest magnesium smelter ever built was built in Freeport, Texas, uh, in World War II to, to fight Nazis.

And, um, and it was, it was built using seawater as a feedstock from, uh, the Gulf of America.

Um, so magnesium was precipitated from seawater to make a concentrate that was then converted into a mag chloride salt concentrate.

That's the one you're referring to.

Um, which we then, which they used to then dry and electrolyze into metal.

Um, there were a lot of issues with that process.

... and it's just more about the a- you don't bother protecting, it's just about the execution l- layer?