Toward Decline
Watchdog identifies 'psychological harm' at world's largest lithium mine
Why it matters
Greenbushes is the world's largest lithium mine and Australia's primary source of this critical mineral for battery and renewable-energy infrastructure. WorkSafe enforcement action and workforce distress risk production delays, lower output efficiency, or labour attrition at a facility critical to Australia's resource sovereignty and manufacturing supply-chain resilience. Disruption to lithium supply undermines both domestic decoupling from Chinese battery manufacturing and export earnings that fund defence and fiscal capacity.
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