Madeleine King’s comments come as Labor seeks to downplay fallout from its heavy emissions deal with Greens leader Adam Bandt, who called gas and coal firms “greedy bastards”.
Resources Minister Madeleine King has issued a strident defence of why the resources sector and gas in particular will remain “crucial for quite some time” as Labor downplays negative consequences for the industry from itsSpeaking before Thursday’s expected Senate vote on the government’s safeguard mechanism legislation, which the Greens backed on Monday after Labor agreed to tighten restrictions on emissions from gas projects, Ms King said resources were “the most significant contributor” to...
In Canberra for high-level meetings on gas that will include Ms King, the CEO of Japan’s Inpex Corporation, Takayuki Ueda, will underscore the critical role Australia plays in providing energy security for its regional allies and make a plea for stable policy settings.
“Australia has vast reserves of critical minerals such as lithium, vanadium, rare earths elements and silicon which are essential to make clean-energy technologies such as batteries, solar panels and electric vehicles.
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