Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison called federal elections for May 21 on Sunday, launching a come-from-behind battle to stay in power after three years rocked by floods, bushfires and the Covid-19 pandemic. Morrison is a strident supporter of Australia's vast fossil fuel industry. He has vowed to mine and export coal for as long as there are buyers, touted a "gas-fired recovery" from the pandemic, and resisted global calls to cut carbon emissions faster by 2030. As treasurer in 2017, he famously took a chunk of coal into parliament and told Labor: "This is coal, don't be afraid." STOCKSHOTS of Australian coal mining and industry