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Governments’ critical minerals intervention wins over investors - AFR

Why it matters

Government intervention in critical minerals markets strengthens Australia's Resource Sovereignty pillar by securing domestic supply chains for strategic materials essential to defence systems, renewable energy, and decoupling from China. Investor confidence in this sector reduces Australia's vulnerability to supply-chain disruption and foreign coercion via resource dependency.

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This development bears on 3 of the eight pillars of Australian preparedness — the overall picture right now is 5/100.

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