Opinion
The flaws in Australia’s new critical minerals strategy
The country should be maximising its advantages in copper and aluminium above all else.
Patrick GibbonsCorporate adviserWith the government’s just announced critical minerals strategy of an extra $500 million for downstream processing, combined with May’s US-Australia critical mineral announcement and the promise of American corporate largesse bolstered by subsidies from the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, it would be easy to think Australia’s critical mineral challenges are solved.
New automotive technology will change which minerals are considered to be critical. Bloomberg
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