Critical minerals now sit at the centre of Australia’s strategic future. But geology alone will not secure national resilience or regional transformation. Australia must decide whether it will build a governance architecture capable of sustaining …
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In critical minerals policy, one of the costliest things we can say is ‘we signed a memorandum of understanding’. Public announcements can signal intent, but they don’t build processing plants, turn ore into usable materials …
Accelerating geo‑economic competition to control supply chains for critical minerals is disrupting global markets and threatening security. Resource-rich Australia is delicately positioned between rival great powers but also faces unique opportunities to increase its influence …
No single country—regardless of its wealth or will—has the combination of mineral reserves, scale, and low-cost labour and energy to compete with China’s centrally planned critical-minerals industry. To break China’s grip on critical minerals, Australia, …
The speed of critical-minerals policy evolution has been unmistakable. In the past year alone, governments across the Indo-Pacific have tightened export controls, expanded sovereign investment vehicles, announced new agreements, and redirected defence industrial policy toward …