Ann: Allkem Technical Collaboration on Lithium Potential, page-65

yeah, it's gotta be someone, but thinking out loud, if Gina and ellison are taking 'seat at the table' stakes, (have done with a number of these smaller Li possibilities) then maybe this is enough on their radar, considering the actual AKE interest... so it's a reallllly cheap seat at the table, considering the possibility that (realistically) NIS has in front of it.
They're blocking other companies for a reason. We dont quite know why yet, unless it's to corner the WA Li market and be the powerhouse when the sentiment returns,... there's trillions of dollars across the state, and they're greedy AF to get amongst that....
All just thoughts and suppositions...