A small section from Paul Kelly’s article in today’s Australian:...

A small section from Paul Kelly’s article in today’s Australian:

“Government intervention, planning and funding support is essential. Critical minerals have become the new global mining rush – witness the recent Diggers and Dealers Mining Forum at Kalgoorlie with its focus on minerals vital in electronic vehicles, batteries, wind turbines and across defence, military, and computing.

Beazley argues for AUKUS to become a vehicle for these efforts. He advocates that AUKUS nations should add critical minerals into the AUKUS Pillar 2, a step with three meanings. It enshrines strategy as the essence of the project; it means national collaboration, not rivalry, in this venture; and the role of government working with private partners is pivotal.”