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All Albanese’s innovation sweeteners from the election

With Anthony Albanese and Labor claiming a decisive victory at the weekend’s election, attention now turns to the second-term government’s ambitious agenda for the next three years. Buffeted by...

Critical Minerals, Critical Questions: Is Stockpiling Enough?

2 May 2025 | by Ehsan Farahbakhsh

The Australian government’s new $1.2 billion critical minerals stockpile plan appears to be more of a political statement than a transformative industrial policy. While some headlines have framed it...

Pentagon’s AI metals program goes private to boost Western supply

2 May 2025 | by Ernest Scheyder

A US government-created artificial intelligence program that aims to predict the supply and price of critical minerals has been transferred to the control of a non-profit organisation that is...

‘It makes sense’: PM digs in on critical minerals reserve

30 April 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has weathered criticism about his plan to buy and stockpile critical minerals and rare earths in a strategic reserve, saying the national interest trumps miners’...

Plans to stockpile critical minerals will help Australia weather global uncertainty

28 April 2025 | by Professor Mohan Yellishetty

The world needs huge quantities of critical minerals to make batteries, electric vehicles, wind turbines, mobile phones, computers and advanced weaponry. Many of these minerals lie under Australian soil....

Labor to tip $1.2bn into critical minerals reserve

24 April 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

Australia will begin stockpiling critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and silicon from 2026 to insulate against geopolitical shocks and build up a fledgling processing industry if Labor is re-elected....

Australia’s critical minerals reserve ‘support, not intervention’

15 April 2025 | by Trish Everingham

A critical minerals reserve proposed for Australia in the wake of sweeping US tariffs on global exports is “not intervention, it’s support”, Resources minister Madeleine King has declared. “…...

NSW to co-invest in critical minerals exploration

3 April 2025 | by Justin Hendry

A co-investment fund for critical minerals exploration will be established in New South Wales, with $2.5 million in seed money to be made available to help miners unlock rare earths...

PM responds to tariffs with interest-free NRF loans, critical minerals reserve

3 April 2025 | by Justin Hendry

Australia will make $1 billion in interest-free loans available through National Reconstruction Fund to businesses in response to new trade tariffs imposed by the United States. Prime Minister Anthony...

$14bn Future Made tax credit plan passes Senate

11 February 2025 | by Justin Hendry

Billions of dollars in tax credits for green hydrogen production and critical minerals processing will flow from 2027 after the centrepiece of the Albanese government’s Future Made in Australia...

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All Albanese’s innovation sweeteners from the election

Critical Minerals, Critical Questions: Is Stockpiling Enough?

Pentagon’s AI metals program goes private to boost Western supply

‘It makes sense’: PM digs in on critical minerals reserve

Plans to stockpile critical minerals will help Australia weather global uncertainty

Labor to tip $1.2bn into critical minerals reserve

Australia’s critical minerals reserve ‘support, not intervention’

NSW to co-invest in critical minerals exploration

$14bn Future Made tax credit plan passes Senate

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