Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

Critical minerals are of course the subject of a separate process and a separate strategy for government. The sectors that you're referring to now are essentially judged to be critical to the clean energy transformation for the manufacturing sector. Retaining this capability for these hard-to-abate sectors is, in our judgement and based on the feedback we received through the consultation, essential. It was on that basis that we made adjustments to the scheme design and some of the financial arrangements, as announced by the minister earlier on.