Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I'm a bit concerned that lithium miners in Australia are considered to be hypothetical situations. They'd be very interested to know that. In terms of lithium mining itself, some companies are being provided with a subsidy, a grant or support through other measures provided by the federal government. Certainly when we were in government we wanted to increase the mining and processing of critical minerals, such as lithium, obviously, which supports Australia's energy transition. In terms of whether they're worse off or not, if they're currently receiving the grants, the subsidies or support but they are impacted by these changes—so, they've been given this grant, subsidy or support to undertake the mining and processing of the critical minerals—is there some way to ensure that they are no worse off as a result of being impacted by the changes?