Madeleine King (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

If they had, they would know that Janette Hewson, the CEO of the QRC, has said:

The Critical Minerals Production Tax Incentive, funding to progress common user facilities and $566 million to Geoscience Australia to develop new data are all important announcements that will benefit our critical minerals industry.

Those opposite pretend to be a friend of the west, but nothing could be further from the truth. Maybe they would have consulted the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia. As CEO Rebecca Tomkinson has said, 'It is pleasing to see the federal government adopt CME recommendations such as the production tax incentive for critical minerals and funding for common-user infrastructure.' Now, the QRC and the CME of WA are hardly the stalwarts of support for the Australian Labor Party, but they know a good policy when they see it.

What we know is that the opposition choose to act not in the national interest but in their own self-interest. They want to offshore Australia's future; we will make a future here in Australia.

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