COALITION’S MINING AND RESOURCES PLAN TO TURBOCHARGE JOBS, INVESTMENT AND STRENGTHEN NATIONAL SECURITY

Today, the Coalition has released its detailed and fully costed “Plan for a Strong Resources Industry”, including the expansion of the official critical minerals list to include uranium along with zinc, bauxite, alumina, aluminium, potash, phosphate and tin. 

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COALITION TO UNLEASH NEXT GENERATION OF MINING PROJECTS

An elected Dutton Coalition Government will turbocharge the mining and resources sector by reinstating the Junior Minerals Exploration Incentive (JMEI), cut by Labor, with $100 million capped over four years.

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2025 AUSTRALIAN DOMESTIC GAS OUTLOOK – SYDNEY

A Dutton-led Coalition Government will turbocharge our resources sector – and we see the future of gas as being instrumental to that.

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PETER DUTTON BUDGET IN REPLY SPEECH

We cherish this country because it affords opportunities like no other. But only – and I stress this point – if we’re governed well. When Australia is governed badly, dreams and ambitions become beyond reach. And that’s what’s happened during the last three years under the Albanese Government.

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ADDRESS TO ASIA PACIFIC CARBON CONNECT CONFERENCE, NEWCASTLE

So mining pays the bills for Australia and I start all of my presentations with that because that is an incredibly important thing to know and I’m not sure that Australians do know that anymore. We certainly know the Treasurer doesn’t know that. And at the budget last year with a $50 billion surplus from windfall prices, he managed in his budget speech to not mention mining at all, much less coal, gas or iron ore. Couldn’t find anywhere to mention that in his speech. That is shocking.

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LABOR “SPENT THE WEEKEND” ON VITAL CRITICAL MINERALS STRATEGY FOR TRUMP

The Albanese Labor Government must put partisan politics aside, and urgently include bauxite, alumina and aluminium on Australia’s Critical Minerals List, due to the rising geopolitical risks and the damaging of Australia’s investment environment the Government has presided over.

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JAPAN’S TRADE WARNING: COALITION RESPONDS BY VOWING TO POUR MORE GAS INTO DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL MARKETS

The Coalition has vowed to pour more gas into Australia’s domestic and export markets following a warning from Japan’s largest LNG buyer that it may increasingly look to the United States for long-term reliable gas supplies.

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“IDIOCY” OF IMPORTING GAS

Extreme climate-change idiocy based on the Albanese Government’s flawed “renewables only” policy is responsible for a Labor Party proposal for taxpayers to foot the bill of importing gas into Australia.

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GOVERNMENT REPORT CONFIRMS 47.000 MINING AND GAS NEW JOBS STALLED

Planned new major Australian resource projects are stalling at more than double the rate of a year ago with new analysis by the Government’s Chief Economist exposing $119 billion of stalled and cancelled projects in the coal, iron-ore and gas sectors.

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NEW ACLAND MINE DECISION A VICTORY FOR COMMON SENSE

Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald has praised coal miner New Hope for weathering a now-abandoned legal storm brought on by the taxpayer-funded Environmental Defenders Office.

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